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EXCLUSIVE: Dutch companies SUPER7EVEN Productions and MN Media are joining forces to launch SuperIndie, an integrated workplace focused connected human-interest, quality and societal effect driven documentaries and features pinch world appeal.
The task brings together 2 of the Netherlands‘ astir innovative and successful indie doc and actual players.
Amsterdam-based SUPER7EVEN Productions, headed by shaper and head Jonathan de Jong, antecedently enjoyed occurrence pinch his dementia-themed doc Human Forever. It drew 80,000 spectators astatine home, has been distributed successful 31 countries and besides won a prestigious Dutch Golden Calf nationalist grant successful 2024.
Jeffrey de Graaff’s MN Media is known for The Wild North Sea, Planet Soil and The New Wilderness, which have collectively attracted a large theatrical audience of complete 1,300,000 cinemagoers in nan Netherlands and secured multiple accolades, including two Golden Calves and wider international show recognition.
SuperIndie’s inaugural slate includes de Jong’s A Girl Like Rose, going down nan scenes of nan life and profession of Belgian ace exemplary Rose Bertram; There Is No Society, nan sequel to Human Forever as good as titles Patterns of Life, WOW! and Ecolopolis.
The caller task will oversee nan creation of its ain and third-party projects from nan improvement shape done to trading and worldwide sales.
The studio’s longer-term extremity is to create a web of partnerships pinch like-minded independent companies crossed Europe and beyond, and SuperIndie has already recovered its first world partner successful Belgian institution High Mass.
The Bruges-based institution was launched earlier this twelvemonth by Benny Haesebrouck, who antecedently spent much than a decade astatine innovative Belgian festival, accumulation and distribution institution MOOOV and besides held positions astatine Kinepolis Film Distribution.
“We judge audiences are progressively looking for stories that link them to nan world we unrecorded in,” said de Jong.
“Documentary storytelling should not beryllium confined to master audiences, and eager non-fiction tin perfectly scope mainstream viewers erstwhile it’s developed and positioned pinch nan aforesaid ambition, standard and imaginative subject arsenic scripted storytelling – this is nan spread successful nan marketplace that SuperIndie is going to fill.”
MN Media’s de Graaff emphasized their ambition to travel SuperIndie projects from nan improvement shape done to world distribution arsenic a cardinal rod of nan venture.
“Our attack is to deliberation about the audience, our mode of outreach and semipermanent effect from nan very opening of nan imaginative process,” he said.
“Rather than handing projects complete erstwhile accumulation is complete, we’re building audience and partner engagement from nan earliest stages of development, alongside organisations, communities and stakeholders connected to each story.”
