BALDR FILM
BALDR Film (January 2012) is the production company of Frank Hoeve and Katja Draaijer. For years they had a successful collaboration at established production company IJswater Films, where they produced productions as: Skin by Hanro Smitsman (Emmy Nomination), Win-Win by Jaap van Heusden (IFFR 2010), May 22nd by Koen Mortier (TIFF 2010, IFFR 2011), Contact by Hanro Smitsman (Winner Golden Bear), Bridging the Gap by Corine van Egeraat (IDFA 2010).
They decided to join forces in order to make films that represent their own personal view.
With BALDR Film, they focus on developing and producing features and documentaries of a select number of filmmakers with a distinctive personal signature. In this, they offer a lot of support in matters of content, whereby the form and originality of the production comes first. They aspire to make BALDR Film develop into a company that produces innovative projects for an international market, where emerging, talented filmmakers feel at home.
After establishing they produced the short film Sevilla by director Bram Schouw and screenwriter Marcel roijaards, which won the Dutch Academy Award.
Their latest credit was the well acclaimed and IDFA-nominated documentary Those who feel the fire burning by Morgan Knibbe, which won the Dutch Academy Award for Best Feature Length Documentary. It was also the official Dutch entry for the Oscars 2016.
Currently in post-production is the feature Brothers by Bram Schouw (starring Jonas Smulders, Niels Gomperts, Christa Theret and Rufus) and BALDR Film is also working on coproductions as Etgar Keret : A truth-telling Liar (NL/IL/FR) by Stephane Kaas, Samuel en las Nubes (BE/NL) by Pieter van Eecke and Between two worlds (DK/SE/NL) by Armadillo-director Janus Metz.
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