The organization of the International Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino! in Poland has decided to award BosBros with one of the most prestigious awards of the festival: the Platinum Goats 2020.

The prize is a recognition of the remarkable achievements that BosBros has delivered in the field of children’s film production. The prize will be presented during an online award gala on Sunday 29 November.

Jerzy Moszkowics, Festival director:
For all these charming and wise films, made with passion and awareness of children’s needs, with a professionalism that does not obscure the honesty and sincerity of film expression, we award Platinum Goats 2020 to the BosBros production company of Amsterdam, and we give particularly deep bows and send our greatest regards to the boss of this crew, Burny Bos, and the extremely creative producer and screenwriter, Tamara Bos.

During the Golden Calves Gala of the 40th edition of the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht, the family film Romy’s Salon was declared the big winner of the evening. The film won four prizes! Beppie Melissen received a Golden Calf for Best Actress for her portrayal of Oma Stine. Her co-star Noortje Herlaar received the Golden Calf for Best Supporting Actress. The director of the film, Mischa Kamp, was also awarded Best Director and Tamara Bos received a Golden Calf in the category Best Screenplay for her work. Romy’s Salon only failed to cash in on the nomination for Best Picture.

The psychological thriller Marionette also won a Golden Calf. Anne Winterink won the Golden Calf for Best Production Design. Marionette also had nominations in the category Best Direction and Best Sound Design.

The Golden Calves are the grand prizes of Dutch cinema, equivalents of the British BAFTAs, French Césars and German LOLAs.

The Golden Calves, the most prestigious accolades within the Dutch audiovisual sector, have been awarded by independent juries since the start of the festival in 1981. Since 2015, a broad group of professional colleagues is in charge of the allocation in the categories Feature Film and Long Documentary through an Academy system. For the categories Short Documentary, Short Film, TV Drama and Interactive, Golden Calf juries select nominees and winners from a preselection made by the NFF. Yearly by the beginning of September, the candidates are revealed. The prizes are awarded during the Golden Calves Gala, on October 2nd in 2020.

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.

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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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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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