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 cinicism 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 queer 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.
Rogier Kramer graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy in 2015. His first opportunity towards a creative and entrepreneurial adventure came with an invitation to the Talent Speeddates at the Netherlands Film Festival in his graduate year. Later, after his internship, he continued working as junior producer at Dutch Mountain Film. In 2017 he was promoted to producer and as of 2019 he is co-owner of the company. Gaining more and more experience with several productions, he has also been recognised as a young emerging talent and invited for various industry meetings, such as Rotterdam Lab and the Berlinale Visitors Program in 2018. His main focus is to set up new collaborations with talented people and to produce fiction films and series, but he is also involved with international co-productions and documentaries. In line with his aspiration he was selected by the Netherlands Film Fund to join the producers meeting created by the German Federal Film Board (FFA) for up-and-coming film makers at the Max Ophüls Preis Festival in Saarbrücken in 2019. 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 LGBT 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.
Lianne Hillebrand started her work at Dutch Mountain Film as a script intern in 2014, analysing plans in development on a script-technical basis. She has been working for Dutch Mountain Film as a script editor ever since, co-operating on projects such as Possessed, The Partnership, Big Family and The File. In 2015 she graduated as a screenwriter from the Netherlands Film Academy.