Dutch Mountain Film is an Amsterdam based production company that searches for constructive engagement with its productions. Films that strike society and resonate with a contemporary and engaged audience. We produce films that stand out for their authenticity and creativity, without cynicism and, if possible, with humour. Films that not only observe what is going on in society, but also search for solutions. Film makers, both experienced and inexperienced, are cherished, encouraged and challenged, providing room for personal growth and progression. Next to that, Dutch Mountain Film is always looking for stories or characters from the LGBTI-community because the company wants to go ahead in battle for a better representation of this group in particular.
Cultural entrepreneurship implies that we choose to take responsibility for the environment, have an open company structure, act on a social personnel policy and make films that speak for society and its needs.
Since 2019 Rogier Kramer is co-owner of Dutch Mountain Film after working for the company as a junior producer. He has been recognised as a young emerging talent and invited for various industry meetings and training programs, such as Rotterdam Lab (IFFR) in 2018, Talent en Route (Netherlands Film Festival) in 2019 and Berlinale Talents in 2020. Besides that he regularly gives lectures in producing at the Netherlands Film Academy and is a member of the Dutch Academy For Film since March 2021. Rogier’s main focus is to set up new collaborations with talented people and to produce fiction films (both short and feature) and series, but he is also involved with international co-productions and documentaries. Rogier believes in maintaining long relationships with writers, directors and co-producers because this will eventually make the filmmaking process smoother, which will lead to better created films. His first finished, fully self-initiated short film is One of the Boys (2018, director Ivo van Aart) in which he engages the audience in his lifelong passion for the sport korfball and the struggle to keep up with the macho locker room talk. A humorous story with a critical view on toxic masculinity; a topical issue nowadays and something Dutch Mountain Film is not afraid to point out. Furthermore, Rogier is always looking for stories or characters in films with an LGBTI background, because Dutch Mountain Film wants to go ahead in battle for a better representation of this group in particular.
Wilant Boekelman produced many features like Kauwboy, Bullhead, Abrir Puertas y Ventanas and Shocking Blue. Wilant Boekelman also gives lectures at the Netherlands Film Academy and is a member of the ACE network. Since 2013 Wilant joined forces again with René Huybrechtse, having previously worked together when they started their career. Together Boekelman and Huybrechtse produced more than 40 features and won several prizes for their productions: A Tiger Award, the Joris Ivens Award, a Silver Bear, a Golden Leopard, numerous Golden Calves and almost an Oscar.
René Huybrechtse graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam in 1984. In that same year he founded Theorema Films. First he directed television programs mainly for youth, including: Hotel Amor, Hangar 6 and Blast You (winner Prix Jeunesse International). In 2005 René Huybrechtse founded Dutch Mountain Movies, which is Dutch Mountain Film’s predecessor. Among the feature films he produced are Life In One Day, The Preacher, Shouf Shouf Habibi! and The Sea that Thinks.
Tessel Jonkers attended the basic course audiovisual media in 2014 at the Open Studio in Amsterdam. After that, she attended the Film and Photography course at the Graphic Lyceum Rotterdam for one year. In these two years, Tessel gained a basic knowledge of film. In 2019, she graduated as a producer from the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam. In her third year she did an internship as an assistant producer at the documentary production company Pieter van Huystee Film. In the course of her study at the Film Academy, she developed a preference for participating in, and making documentaries. Tessel won the Topkapi Film Fiction Prize 2019 with her graduation film Porfotto. With her graduation documentary When You Grow Up, she won the VPRO Documentary Prize 2019 and the KNF Prize for Best Film Academy Production 2019. At the Netherlands Film Festival in 2019, Tessel won the Producers Netherlands Award. After the Netherlands Film Academy, she started working as a freelancer. She has worked on a Teledoc Campus, an NTR Kort!, a Filmfonds Short, various commercials and corporate films for theatre companies and the Gemeente Amsterdam. Tessel has been working as a Junior producer at Dutch Mountain Film since May 2020.