Witfilm
Boudewijn Koole & Iris Lammertsma
Oudezijds Achterburgwal 63 | 1012DB Amsterdam
info@witfilm.nl | +31 20 6885049
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Witfilm is an award-winning production company based in Amsterdam. The company focuses on creative, social and youth documentary films, as well as arthouse fiction films. Headed by director and creative producer Boudewijn Koole and producer Iris Lammertsma, its strength lies in content development and combining personal stories with socially relevant and current topics. Witfilm productions are intense, innovative and intimate. They challenge the way we view the world by showing us multiple perspectives.
Witfilm creates films through inspiring and fruitful co-productions with national and international broadcasters, producers and funds. By making high quality and visually powerful films of artistic nature Witfilm aims at contributing to a thriving film sector globally.
MEIS
Director: Boudewijn Koole. Screenwriters: Boudewijn Koole & Jakop Ahlbom. Country: NL / BE / SE. Co-producer: Umedia (BE), Kärnfilm (SE). Status: Pre-production. Duration: 80 min. Sort: Feature. Genre: Family film. Distribution: Gusto Entertainment (NL). Sales agent: Attraction Distribution (CA).
‘Meis’ is a modern slapstick. A tragicomic family film without dialogue.
In a house filled with love and flying breakfasts, Meis (9) builds a spaceship with her talking computer. She travels to the future to find a cure for her sick mother, but along the way, her course takes an unexpected turn. Is she brave enough to face her true mission?
BIG DREAMS
Director: Louis Hothothot. Country: NL. Status: Pre-production. Release: 2028. Sort: feature length documentary. Duration: 90 min. Genre: Hybrid documentary, personal story. Distribution: Cinema Delicatessen. Sales: First Hand Films.
The intriguing American plus-size actress Laurel and the Chinese director Louis meet in Beijing and become entangled in an intimate yet complex friendship. Laurel has come to China with two dreams: to become an actress and to find romantic love. As the camera’s presence grows increasingly intrusive, Louis is forced to confront himself and his filmmaking process.
Big Dreams is an intimate, layered portrait of two people who mirror each other in their differences and similarities. It is a film about feeling lost and the lack of love. Personal stories become entwined with larger cultural and political movements. The impact of the COVID pandemic, the world during Trump, and the cultural differences between China and America. Big Dreams shows how social forces extend all the way into the most intimate domain of friendship and desire.