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Flinck Film is a film and television production company whose main objective is to make high-quality feature films and television series for young people and family audiences (based on literary works or original scripts) and other media projects targeted at a large audience. Flinck Film is established by film producers Michiel de Rooij and Sabine Veenendaal, who have been working at the well-known production company BosBros for 15 and 12 years respectively.

Having produced feature films such as Winky’s Horse (Het Paard van Sinterklaas), Where is Winky’s Horse? (Waar is het Paard van Sinterklaas?), How to Survive Myself? (Hoe overleef ik mezelf?), and Morrison, they recognize the importance of making beautiful stories into films that appeal both to children and adults. Through all its projects, Flinck Film aims to show children that you are in control of your own situation and your own happiness, once you learn how to open up to the chances that present themselves to you.

Flinck Film not only produces media projects for children, but is also engaged in projects targeted at an adult audience. The well-received eight-part television series Amsterdam Paradise (A’DAM – E.V.A.) caused Flinck Film immediate fame. ‘Innovative’ and ‘sparkling’ are only two of the qualifications that were used to describe this series. Not only the series itself, but also Flinck Film’s marketing campaign received a fair share of attention. As a result, more than a million viewers watched most of the episodes of the series (both on television, and online). The series has become a popular topic of conversation on social media such as Facebook and Twitter. Amsterdam Paradise won the award for best international drama production at Festival de la Fiction TV in La Rochelle - the most important television festival in France.

As a reliable coproduction partner for many foreign producers, Flinck Film was a partner in Scandinavia and Germany for the feature film Simon and the Oaks (Simon), and in Belgium with Eyeworks Film & TV Drama for the second feature of Nic Bathazar Until Forever (Tot Altijd). With some of these partners Flinck Film will produce Whispering Clouds (Wolkenjongen) by Meikeminne Clinckspoor in the Netherlands, Belgium and Scandinavia.

Family film Swchwrm, my adventures (Swchwrm) (scenario by Helena van der Meulen; directed by Froukje Tan) is Flinck Film’s first feature film to be released. It will be shown in Dutch movie theatres from April 2012. Finn, a Christmas movie for the whole family (scenario by Janneke van der Pal; directed by Frans Weisz), is currently in preparation.