During the first round of the 2021 Netherlands Film Production Incentive, contributions were made to 21 new productions, for a total of €5.9 million. The new supported projects include 12 fiction features, five documentary features, two drama series and two documentary series, including nine international co-productions. These contributions are set to generate over €24 million in production expenditure in the Netherlands.

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The grant of the biggest magnitude was bestowed upon Giancarlo Sanchez’s 8x50 drama series The Life (€1,169,063), staged by Topkapi TV, and penned by Chris Westendorp, Ashar Medina and Wander Theunis. The other drama series awarded funding was Mustafa Duygulu’s 6x45-50 Laura H. (€611,982), produced by De Familie and Belgium’s Mockingbird Productions. Meanwhile, the two non-fiction series in receipt of the agency’s bursaries were Max Moszkowicz’s 4x35 Lost Angels (€65,570, produced by Pieter van Huystee Film & TV) and Koen Mortier’s 10x50 Voices of Liberation (€110,371, staged by NL Film & TV and Belgian outfit Czar Film & TV).

Among the feature-length productions, the big winners during this slate of funding were Saskia Diesing’s war drama Lost Transport (€554,234, co-produced by KeyFilm and Amour Fou Luxembourg) and Ben Verbong’s drama Broken (working title: When I Saw You) (€572,713, staged by Nuts & Bolts Film Company). Lost Transport is set in the spring of 1945 and follows a deportation train carrying hundreds of Jewish prisoners stranded near a small German village occupied by the Red Army. Condemned to remain among one another, and in a context of deep mistrust, desperation and revenge, an unexpected friendship is forged between Russian sniper Vera, village girl Winnie and Dutch Jewish woman Simone. Meanwhile, Broken centres on a happily married actress who is confronted with the depression of her husband, also a famous actor. She makes every effort to keep her loving family together, but in the end she cannot save him.

Other fiction features backed by the body were Valerie Bisscheroux’s drama Anne+ (€463,229, a Millstreet Films production), Jacqueline van Vugt’s drama Crossing [+lire aussi :
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Finally, the five documentary feature projects backed by the organisation are Barbara Visser’s Alreadymade (€145,007, produced by Tomtit Film), Ramon Gieling’s L’Amour/La Mort (€86,722, a DOXY production), Wim van der Aar’s Journey to the Northern Lights (€95,737, staged by Submarine Docs and Belgian firm Savage Film), Rolf Orthel’s The Pleasure of Creating (€61,110, a Doc.Eye Film production) and Carmen Cobos’ The Royal Republic (€90,440, produced by Cobos Films).