LEV Pictures is very proud to announce that the short film ‘Suiker’ by Jeroen Annokkee is selected for Kort! 2010.

The NPS Kort! program gives a mix of young and known screenwriters and directors the opportunity to make short fiction films by funding their projects. Each year producers submit scenario’s at the Dutch Film Fund, but only ten out of the hundreds submissions get selected.

LEV Pictures will produce the Documentary about Anton Corbijn, directed by KLaartje Quirijns.

Corbijn is the most known portraitistof current artistic zone. He concentrates on portraits of celebrities almost from all artistic genres, shooting videoclips, walk-on videoprojections, and designing album covers. Besides Depeche Mode, his work includes portraits of Bruce Springsteen, Kate Moss, Steven Spielberg, Wim Wenders, Gerard Depardieu, Quentin Tarantino, William S. Burroughs, Dennis Hopper, Martin Scorsese, U2, David Bowie, Michael Stipe, Miles Davis and hundreds of others.

After two successful ‘NPS Korts!’ LEV Pictures gets the opportunity to make an ‘One Night Stands’. This project aims at ‘new’ directors in combination with experienced and less experienced writers. They can subscribe their 50 minute Script to the Dutch Film fund. LEV Pictures is one of the three Production Companies that has been chosen to produce two of these projects, in co production with Dutch Broadcasters. A real honour for a young Production Company.

SUNSET FROM A ROOFTOP, the short film by Marinus Groothof, won the award for Best Dutch Short Film during the Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht last Friday. LEV Pictures wants to thank everybody who worked so hard on this project.
The 2nd of February we will hear if the film is nominated for the Academy Awards ‘Best Live Short’.

LEV Pictures has four of his short films playing during the Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht this september. Come and visit us. See the date and time below.

DE LIFT 2 - FIRST FLOOR:
25-09-2009 om 18:15 uur in Rembrandt 3

DE LIFT 3 - ELEVADOR:
25-09-2009 om 18:15 uur in Rembrandt 3

OH, DEER!:
27-09-2009 om 22:15 uur in Rembrandt 2
28-09-2009 om 22:00 uur in Louis Hartlooper Complex 1
01-10-2009 om 22:00 uur in Rembrandt 1

KORT! - SUNSET FROM A ROOFTOP:
28-09-2009 om 20:30 uur in SSU - DE Zaal
30-09-2009 om 19:30 uur in Rembrandt 1

ESHRE, European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, is a foundation of a society that stimulates the study and research in the field of reproductive medicine and science. LEV Pictures made two corporate films for their 25 year anniversary. A film that looks back on the 25 yars of ESHRE's history and by doing so, also the history of reproductive science and medicine. To achieve this a visual journey was created passing through all the highlights of this 25-year period. Showing not only all the scientific events but also the impact on society. Because IVF has a big impact on people the film got a human feeling. Passing through several scenes that depict the process of IVF, the pregnancy but also the joy of being a parent, a family.

After two weeks of filming LEV Pictures finished 'The Story of John mule'. A short art movie about one man living in a world with only woman. We follow him during the making of his film and his search for the perfect leading lady.

'Sunset from a Rooftop', the NPS Kort! written and directed by Marinus Groothof, was filmed in Belgrade last week. After an intense 3 night and 1 day shoot the mix of Serbian and Dutch crew wrapped at 6 o’clock in the morning on the 16th of June. Producer LEV Pictures went home proudly looking back at a very successful collaboration between both countries. Postproduction will start on Monday and the movie will premiere during the Dutch Film Festival later on this year in September.

LEV Pictures is attending Cannes Film Festival from the 14th of May till the 19th with three projects in development: Voices of Football, a documentary and two feature films Groundswell and Don Quichot. To make an appointment send an email to gertjan@levpictures.com.

Because of the great success of last 'Scriptday' the two companies, LEV Pictures and Scriptdesk, decided to do it again on May 30th. This day is all about giving Directors and Screenwriters the change to get to know each other better and to help each plan, idea, synopsis or script to a next level.
How to participate? Join ‘Scriptdesk- De Proeftuin’ through you LinkedIn Profile, send your idea before May 13 12:00 o’clock to info@scriptdesk.nl and May 22nd, at the latest, you will receive the participating projects and the table arrangement.

On March 31st LEV Pictures flew to Seoul to shoot the pilot of the documentary ‘Voices of Football’. The documentary follows 5 football commentators in 5 different countries. The focus of the pilot is on three main points: Who’s the man behind the voice? What kind of roll does football have in this particular country and what social highlight surrounds the game? In Seoul we followed mister Lee and filmed him during the game North vs South – Korea. Next stop Iran.

The short movie ‘Road’, directed by Daniel Bruce, got a 'special mention’ by the jury at the 17th Meditarranean Festival of new Film Makers in Greece. This is the third time that Daniel is awarded for his movie ‘Road’.

The NPS and Dutch Film Fund are the initiators of the Kort! project, supported by the Stimuleringsfonds and COBO fund. Kort! gives a mix of young and known screenwriters and directors the opportunity to make short fiction films by funding their projects. Each year producers submit scenario’s, but only ten out of the hundreds submissions get selected.
LEV Pictures is very proud to announce that the short film ‘ Sunset from a Rooftop’ by Marinus Groothof is selected for Kort! 2009.

LEV Pictures took the inititative to organise, in conjunction with Scriptdesk, the first 'Script Meeting & Brainstorm Session'. Their goal was to introduce different directors and screenwriters to each other to get to know one another better and to help each other along with ideas, plans, synopsis or scripts for new films.

Because of the great succes the companies decided to organise another meeting in june. Keep checking the website, there will be more information about this day in the beginning of the summer.

The 38th edition of the International Rotterdam Film Festival will start this weekend. Go to the website www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com to see what movies are playing. New this year on their website, is the possibility to watch trailers of festival films. LEV Pictures produced the trailer for the festival itself, 'Get in touch with cinema' by Michaël Sewandono.

LEV Pictures is invited to take part in the International Rotterdam LAB of Cinemart during the International Short Film Festival. This takes place from 21 januari till 1 februari  2009. The Rotterdam Lab is for a select group of up to 50 emerging producers from various countries. IFFR organises group sessions each morning with key members of the industry, giving participants the chance to learn about international feature film sales, financing, distribution, and attending international film markets and pitching forums/competitions.

ROAD was selected for the Kurzfilm Freunde Film Festival in Germany and went home with a Bronze Medaille for best short film!

The Dutch Film Festival announced the nominations for 'Best Short Film'. Akiko, by Michaël Sewandono, is in the running for this prestigious price.

They will announce the winner during a gala event in Utrecht.

Nienke Römer plays the lead rol in "Road", a movie about a young woman travelling alone by car and finds herself fighting for her life against a stranger on the road with questionable intentions. A short film directed by Daniel Bruce.

Nienke Römer was awarded best actress at the Sapporo Film Festival in Japan.