The psychological thriller Marionette, which earlier this year was awarded the prize for Best Actress and the Critics Award at the 41st edition Oporto International Film Festival – Fantasporto in Portugal, is making the step to North America with a release in November.

Scatena & Rosner Films (S&R) has acquired the North American distribution rights to Marionette from writer/director Elbert van Strien (Black Water, Uncle Henk).

The film, starring Thekla Reuten (The American, De Reünie, Red Sparrow), Peter Mullan (The Magdalene Sisters), and Elijah Wolf, will launch on November 3th by S&R on multiple cable, satellite and VOD platforms, after which a release on SVOD platforms to follow.

In Marionette, child psychiatrist Marianne Winter (Thekla Reuten) loses her grip on reality when her 10-year-old patient Manny claims he can control her future.

“Backed by outstanding acting from Thekla Reuten and the entire cast, Elbert’s film successfully addresses classic philosophical questions about reality and fate,” said Jordan Rosner, co-founder of S&R. still food for thought.”

Marionette has also been sold to France and Switzerland and is now on display in 73 countries, including the UK/Ireland, Russia/Ukraine, the Middle East and South Korea.

Marionette was produced by Accento Films (NL) and BosBros (NL) in co-production with Samsa Film (LUX) and Black Camel Pictures (UK) and was realized with support from the Netherlands Film Fund, the Netherlands Filmproduction Incentive, the Luxembourg Filmfund, Screen Scotland, AVROTROS, CoBO Fund and Creative Europe.

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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