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World premiere Marionette at the Netherlands Film Festival 2020

The psychological thriller Marionette will premiere on Tuesday September 29, 2020 during the 40th edition of the Netherlands Film Festival. Due to the COVID-19 virus, the NFF decided to screen the film all over the country on the same day as the premiere in Utrecht.

Ticket sales start at the end of August at participating cinemas and movie theaters. For more information, visit www.filmfestival.nl

When American child psychiatrist Marianne Winter moves to Scotland to start a new life, one of her new patients is the mysterious ten-year-old Manny. Manny draws traumatic events and claims he can steer her future. Struck by the boy, Marianne develops an obsession that makes her lose grip on reality and even questions the nature of existence. Cast: Thekla Reuten, Elijah Wolf, Emun Elliott, Bill Paterson, Peter Mullan and Sam Hazeldine.

Marionette is directed by Elbert van Strien and produced by Accento Films & BosBros. The national distribution is in the hands of In The Air. The official release is scheduled for October 1, 2020.

Prijzenregen voor Kapsalon Romy

Kapsalon Romy van schrijfster Tamara Bos en regisseur Mischa Kamp met in de hoofdrollen Beppie Melissen en Vita Heijmen blijft in de prijzen vallen.  Vrijdagavond kreeg de film vanwege diens oprechtheid de prijs voor “meest overtuigende film” tijdens het Giffoni Film Festival in Italië.  Eerder deze week werd bekend dat de film in Tel Aviv zowel door de kinderjury als door de Volwassenjury is uitgeroepen tot the Best Feature Film for 2019. De kinderen waren geraakt door het liefdevolle en ontroerende verhaal. De volwassenen roemden het talent van de jonge Vita Heijmen. De tienjarige Vita maakt haar debuut in deze film. Noortje Herlaar is te zien als haar moeder en de rol van haar vader wordt door Guido Pollemans gespeeld. Beppie Melissen schittert als haar oma.

Tijdens het Cinema in Sneakers Film Festival dat elk jaar in juni in Warschau wordt gehouden, ontving de film zowel een speciale vermelding van zowel de kinderjury als de volwassen jury en werd daarnaast bekroond tot beste film door de Jury of Art-House Cinemas. Eerder won de film al in Kristiansand de prijs voor Best International Children’s Film.

De film is een coproductie met het Duitse Leitwolf, gesteund door de AVROTROS en het Duitse NDR, het Nederlands Filmfonds, en internationale fondsen als Eurimages en Filmförderung Hamburg. Bosbros is de producent en Cinemien de distributeur. Kapsalon Romy draait vanaf 2 oktober in de Nederlandse bioscopen. De film gaat in première tijdens het Nederlands Film Festival.

BosBros joins Phanta Vision

Film production company BosBros, producer of award winning movie classics such as MINOES, THE HORSE OF SINTERKLAAS, DOLFJE WEREWOLF and WIPLALA, joins the Phanta Vision group, producers of films and series such as VALS, STORM LETTER OF FIRE, CLEAN HANDS and CIRCUS NOËL. From now on BosBros productions will be produced in collaboration with the Phanta Vision group, consisting of Phanta Film, Phanta Basta! and Goldman Film.

Film producer and founder Burny Bos, who received the Golden Calf Culture Award in 2014, sees the collaboration as an important step for the future of his company. Petra Goedings, film producer and co-founder of Phanta Vision, is also enthusiastic about this joining of forces. In this way, an important, international brand from Dutch film and television industry is maintained while Phanta Vision strengthens its position in the market.

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Principal Photography on psychological thriller MARIONETTE has begun

Peter Mullan, Emun Elliott, Sam Hazeldine, Bill Paterson and Rebecca Front have joined the cast alongside Thekla Reuten.

Principal Photography has started on psychological thriller Marionette, directed by writer/director Elbert van Strien. He has also written the script together with Ben Hopkins (Simon Magus, The Market). The film is set in Scotland and will be shot entirely on locations throughout Luxemburg and Aberdeenshire.

Marionette is a high concept thriller for a broad audience and tells the story of a therapist (Thekla Reuten), who loses her grip on reality when a ten-year-old boy claims he can control her future.

The film is produced by Claudia Brandt and Elbert van Strien from Accento Films (Two Eyes Staring) and Burny Bos from BosBros (Miss Minoes, The Zigzag Kid) alongside co-producers Jani Thiltges from Samsa Film and Arabella Page Croft and Kieran Parker from Black Camel Pictures.

“We’re delighted to have assembled such a wonderful award-winning cast and creative team to bring Elbert’s passion project to the big screen. We’re thrilled that we have begun principal photography on this fantastic project and we are very excited to see it come to life“, says producer Claudia Brandt.

Marionette is a Dutch-Luxembourgish-UK co-production; financiers include The Netherlands Filmfund, the Netherlands Filmproduction Incentive, The Luxemburg Filmfund, Screen Scotland, Avrotros, CoBO Fund and Creative Europe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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