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Four features awarded production subsidies

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Belgian director Christophe van Rompaey, whose debut Moscow, Belgium [+see also:
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premiered in Cannes, was one of four directors who received a production subsidy for an upcoming project from the Dutch Film Fund in their latest round of financing.

Van Rompaey’s project, Lena, to be produced by Amsterdam-based Isabella Films, was awarded €600,000. The film is scripted by Mieke de Jong, who co-wrote the Dutch Oscar submission Winter in Wartime [+see also:
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, which was also co-produced by Isabella Films. Not much is known about the plot of the film, which will likely be shot after Van Rompaey’s upcoming China-set love story Bleu Birds. Its enigmatic logline: “With Daan, Lena finally feels at home, but at what price?”

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Another one-word title, Milo, received €300,000 in production aid. The film, the feature fiction debut of Roel Boorsma, is a Fu Works production and was written by Roel and Berend Boorsma. The film deals with a father’s difficulty to accept his son, who suffers from hypertrichosis, a disorder that causes excessive hair growth.

Director Lodewijk Crijns received €350,000 for his upcoming Over het IJ, a thriller based on a novel by successful author Kees van Beijnum, who adapted the work himself. Van Beijnum’s previously adapted Oysters at Nam Kee's was a mid-size success in 2002. The project will be produced by IDTV Film.

A €250,000 subsidy was allocated to another adaptation, Penny, de Film!. The latest project of prolific director Steven de Jong, whose speedskating epic The Hell of ‘63 will hit screens December 17, extrapolates a story about a teenage romance and a gravely ill horse from the pages of Penny magazine, a title aimed at horse-loving girls. The film will be produced by Two Young Rights.

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