HKU students among award winners at NFF Talent Awards

Brent Bosker wins NPO Fiction Talent Award

Brent Bosker received the NPO Fiction Talent Award with his film Silent Waters! This prize is handed out by Netherlands Film Festival to the director with the best fictional graduation movie. Bosker receives € 5.000 to support the development of the next fiction project at 3LAB in partnership with BNNVARA.

More information about Bosker and his film is available here.

Filmfonds Wildcards

No less than three HKU students received a Filmfonds Wildcard.
Asema by Loëlle Monsanto and Of ik langs Lyon kwam by Tessa Kortmulder got the Wildcard for Fiction, while Isa Skolnik was the winner in the Documentary category for How To Raise A Rebel.

Jury report

A total of seven HKU students were nominated this year. The jury report about the winners and nominees can be read here (in Dutch).

Debut and student competition

Loëlle Monsanto (Asema)
Jikkie Schelling (Funny Feeling)
Brent Bosker (Silent Waters)
Christian Holtland

Selection Script & Score

Joey Pavić
Sebastiaan Bax
Fons Beijer

HKU Blikvangers

All graduation films are screened Wednesday 27 September during the event HKU Blikvangers ('Eyecatchers') in Louis Hardlooper Complex. Tickets can still be bought via blikvangers.hku.nl.