KeyDocs is run by producers Janneke Doolaard (ao. The Promise, Diary of a Times Square Thief, Everything has a reason), Hanneke Niens (ao. Oscar® nomination Best Foreign Language Film Twin Sisters 2004, Bride Flight, Van god los, Cloaca) and Hans de Wolf (ao. Oscar® Best Foreign Language Film Antonia's Line 1997, Het zusje van Katia, Bluebird, Nynke).
KeyDocs is an important player on the national and international market for excellent feature length documentaries. In addition, KeyDocs co-operates with Dutch broadcasters producing a wide range of shorter documentaries aimed at a television audience.
KeyDocs works on the development and production of a slate of films that combine relevant subjects and themes with an original visual style. The company thrives on the years of experience of its founders, their vast network and knowledge of the feature film and documentary industry.
KeyDocs made a flying start by winning several international prizes for This is my picture when I was dead (Mahmoud al Massad) and Great Lengths (Ramon Gieling). Recently the documentary About canto, produced by Janneke Doolaard, won the Crystal Film Award for its box office success.
Who we are
Janneke Doolaard
Since 2009, Janneke Doolaard is a board member for the Documentary Producers Netherlands (DPN). From 2001 till 2010, Janneke Doolaard was Head of Documentary at Eyeworks Film & TV Drama, formerly Egmond Film & Television.
Over Canto (2011)
Director
Ramón Gieling
(Financial) partners
BOS, Prime Time, Media Fund, CoBO Fund, Cinemien, VAF, Filmfonds, Inspire Pictures
Only sometimes, music, like true love, brings about a radical change into someone. The composition Canto Ostinato by the famous Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt has done so with a number of people.
Ramón Gieling
(Financial) partners
BOS, Prime Time, Media Fund, CoBO Fund, Cinemien, VAF, Filmfonds, Inspire Pictures
Only sometimes, music, like true love, brings about a radical change into someone. The composition Canto Ostinato by the famous Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt has done so with a number of people.
One fine day (2011)
Director
Klaas Bense
(Financial) partners
BOS, Prime Time, Media Fund, Netherlands Film Fund, CoBO Fund, VAF, Inspire Pictures
Several ordinary people have had a positive influence on society through a non-violent act or small gesture, in this urgent and filmic ode to the importance of social consciousness.
Klaas Bense
(Financial) partners
BOS, Prime Time, Media Fund, Netherlands Film Fund, CoBO Fund, VAF, Inspire Pictures
Several ordinary people have had a positive influence on society through a non-violent act or small gesture, in this urgent and filmic ode to the importance of social consciousness.
The promise (2010)
Directors
Ton van der Lee & Eugène van den Bosch
(Financial) partners
IKON, Netherland Film Fund, CoBO Fund, ICCO, Thuiskopiefonds
What are the tangible results of Third World aid in Africa? Does is ever amount to real change? The film makers follows three young Africans to whom help from the West is but a failed promise.
Premiere
Netherlands Film Festival 2010
Distribution
Eyeworks in co-operation with ICCO
Ton van der Lee & Eugène van den Bosch
(Financial) partners
IKON, Netherland Film Fund, CoBO Fund, ICCO, Thuiskopiefonds
What are the tangible results of Third World aid in Africa? Does is ever amount to real change? The film makers follows three young Africans to whom help from the West is but a failed promise.
Premiere
Netherlands Film Festival 2010
Distribution
Eyeworks in co-operation with ICCO
Diary of a times square thief (2008)
Director
Klaas Bense
(Financial) partners
BOS, Mediafund, CoBO Fund
www.diaryofatimessquarethief.com
Diary of a Times Square Thief documents a journey of discovery: the search for the author of a mysterious diary that the filmmaker has bought on Ebay for $78,-.
A story of redemption in down town New york, it sometimes reminds of the early Scorsese.
VPRO Guide
The thoughts and memories he collects are various, touching, insightful and beautifully presented. The Guardian
Awards
Golden Panda Most Innovative Documentary, Sichuan (China), Golden Rock Best Documentary, Scenecs (Amersfoort), Nomination distinguished feature award IDA, Directors Guild of America (Los Angeles), Nomination Filmprice of the city of Utrecht
Festivals a.o.
Official selection Hotdocs, Brooklyn Int. Film Festival, Fantasia Film Festival, Oldenburg Int. Film Festival, DocNZ, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Ashland Independent Film Festival, Göttingen Int. Ethnographic Film Festival, Openingsfilm Crossing Border Festival.
Sales
Canal+ Poland, Sideways Film
Klaas Bense
(Financial) partners
BOS, Mediafund, CoBO Fund
www.diaryofatimessquarethief.com
Diary of a Times Square Thief documents a journey of discovery: the search for the author of a mysterious diary that the filmmaker has bought on Ebay for $78,-.
A story of redemption in down town New york, it sometimes reminds of the early Scorsese.
VPRO Guide
The thoughts and memories he collects are various, touching, insightful and beautifully presented. The Guardian
Awards
Golden Panda Most Innovative Documentary, Sichuan (China), Golden Rock Best Documentary, Scenecs (Amersfoort), Nomination distinguished feature award IDA, Directors Guild of America (Los Angeles), Nomination Filmprice of the city of Utrecht
Festivals a.o.
Official selection Hotdocs, Brooklyn Int. Film Festival, Fantasia Film Festival, Oldenburg Int. Film Festival, DocNZ, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Ashland Independent Film Festival, Göttingen Int. Ethnographic Film Festival, Openingsfilm Crossing Border Festival.
Sales
Canal+ Poland, Sideways Film
Dutch touch (2006)
Director
Ulrike Helmer
(Financial) partners
NPS, Netherlands Film Fund, Mediafund, Cinema Delicatessen
Central in this first real feature about Dutch hiphop are celebrated and reviled white rapper Brainpower, unrivalled for rhythm and rawness Duvel and Jay Colin, on his way to the top. http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/0054-Dutch_Touch
Festivals
Netherlands Film Festival, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Göteborg Int. Filmfestival, Filmfestival ZLIN, Crime Jazz, Hiphophuis
Sales
Canal + Planète Polen; BFM Movie Channel
Ulrike Helmer
(Financial) partners
NPS, Netherlands Film Fund, Mediafund, Cinema Delicatessen
Central in this first real feature about Dutch hiphop are celebrated and reviled white rapper Brainpower, unrivalled for rhythm and rawness Duvel and Jay Colin, on his way to the top. http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/0054-Dutch_Touch
Festivals
Netherlands Film Festival, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Göteborg Int. Filmfestival, Filmfestival ZLIN, Crime Jazz, Hiphophuis
Sales
Canal + Planète Polen; BFM Movie Channel
Banking the unbanked (2009)
Director
Sarah Vos
(Financial) partners
VPRO Holland Doc, DOEN
Is microfinance the answer to poverty? We follow two young ambitious Gambian bankers in their attempts to make Reliance into a steady microfinance institution. Will they succeed in this interesting and expanding market? It requires high level local management, extremely skilled local employees and the introduction of loans, saving accounts and interest. Running a microfinance institution in a third world country appears to be not such an easy job.
Festivals
IDFA Forum, Fipa, Göttingen Int. Film Festival, Re:shape, Netherlands Film Festival
Sales
ARTE France, First Run, Al Jazeera English
Sarah Vos
(Financial) partners
VPRO Holland Doc, DOEN
Is microfinance the answer to poverty? We follow two young ambitious Gambian bankers in their attempts to make Reliance into a steady microfinance institution. Will they succeed in this interesting and expanding market? It requires high level local management, extremely skilled local employees and the introduction of loans, saving accounts and interest. Running a microfinance institution in a third world country appears to be not such an easy job.
Festivals
IDFA Forum, Fipa, Göttingen Int. Film Festival, Re:shape, Netherlands Film Festival
Sales
ARTE France, First Run, Al Jazeera English
The unspeakable (2008)
Director
Pieter Verhoeff
(Financial) partners
NCRV, Mediafund
While fear for (muslim-)fundamentalism is emerging and churches are closing, hunderds of thousands copies of the novel 'Kneeling on a bed of violets' by Jan Siebelink have been sold. How can a book about calvinism be such a success?
Festivals
Dutch Film Festival
Sales
RTV Noord Holland, Cultura24
Pieter Verhoeff
(Financial) partners
NCRV, Mediafund
While fear for (muslim-)fundamentalism is emerging and churches are closing, hunderds of thousands copies of the novel 'Kneeling on a bed of violets' by Jan Siebelink have been sold. How can a book about calvinism be such a success?
Festivals
Dutch Film Festival
Sales
RTV Noord Holland, Cultura24
Foppe de Haan - Master (2007)
Director
Pieter Verhoeff
(Financial) partner
Human
A pat on the back never nobody has ever sustained an injury, football coach Foppe de Haan says; Pieter Verhoeff found the key to the success of the natural phenomenon.
Pieter Verhoeff
(Financial) partner
Human
A pat on the back never nobody has ever sustained an injury, football coach Foppe de Haan says; Pieter Verhoeff found the key to the success of the natural phenomenon.
The poll - Maurice de Hond (2008)
Directors
Rob Schröder & Arthur van den Boogaard
(Financial) partner
KRO Profiel
The best instrument to let the voice of the people speak? The principal indicator of the ideological loss of politics? Or just numbers to kick up spectacle? Maurice de Hond leads us to the meaning of polls in the Netherlands.
Rob Schröder & Arthur van den Boogaard
(Financial) partner
KRO Profiel
The best instrument to let the voice of the people speak? The principal indicator of the ideological loss of politics? Or just numbers to kick up spectacle? Maurice de Hond leads us to the meaning of polls in the Netherlands.
Ave Maria - From handmaiden to the lord to queen of heaven (2006)
Director
Nouchka van Brakel
(Financial) partners
KRO, Filmfund, CoBO Fund
Ave Maria portrays the untameable longing of mankind for the Mother of all mothers; from Virgin Mary, to Mother of the Son of God, to Lady of All Nations, to Queen of Heaven. What powerful emotions drive those devoted to Mary?
Nouchka van Brakel
(Financial) partners
KRO, Filmfund, CoBO Fund
Ave Maria portrays the untameable longing of mankind for the Mother of all mothers; from Virgin Mary, to Mother of the Son of God, to Lady of All Nations, to Queen of Heaven. What powerful emotions drive those devoted to Mary?
Children of Stalin (2006)
Director
Harrie Timmermans
(Financial) partners
EO, Mediafund, SND Films
Time does not exist in the mental hospital in Surami, Georgia. Excrutiatingly slowly the days roll by in an endless stream. The patients wait. One forgets there is still a world outside.
Harrie Timmermans
(Financial) partners
EO, Mediafund, SND Films
Time does not exist in the mental hospital in Surami, Georgia. Excrutiatingly slowly the days roll by in an endless stream. The patients wait. One forgets there is still a world outside.
Everything happens for a reason - Gerard Thoolen (2004)
Director
Pieter Verhoeff
(Financial) partners
Human, Mediafund, Netherlands Film Fund, Docuzone
Pieter Verhoeff tries to unravel the mystery Gerard Thoolen - one of the best Dutch actors from the past decades according to many - who was particularly a mystery to himself.
Awards
Nomination Best Documentary Ever 2007
Festivals
Hollywood Film Festival, IDFA Highlights of the Lowlands
Pieter Verhoeff
(Financial) partners
Human, Mediafund, Netherlands Film Fund, Docuzone
Pieter Verhoeff tries to unravel the mystery Gerard Thoolen - one of the best Dutch actors from the past decades according to many - who was particularly a mystery to himself.
Awards
Nomination Best Documentary Ever 2007
Festivals
Hollywood Film Festival, IDFA Highlights of the Lowlands
Private road (2002)
Director
Pieter verhoeff
(Financial) partners
NPS, Mediafund
I do not swear by the art, I swear by the life I lead, according to visual artist and farmer Leon Adriaans, who feels a strong bond with nature and is avers to artistic fashions and innovatory.
Festivals
Dutch Film Festival, Museum Belvedère, Museum of Brabant
Pieter verhoeff
(Financial) partners
NPS, Mediafund
I do not swear by the art, I swear by the life I lead, according to visual artist and farmer Leon Adriaans, who feels a strong bond with nature and is avers to artistic fashions and innovatory.
Festivals
Dutch Film Festival, Museum Belvedère, Museum of Brabant
Hanneke Niens & Hans de Wolf
Hanneke Niens and Hans de Wolf are the founders of KeyFilm. Their experience combines over 25 years of (inter)national production an co-production of more than 30 feature films (amongst them Oscar® winner Antonia's Line and Oscar® nominee Twin Sisters) and numerous television films, drama series, documentaries, dance films and shorts.
See their feature film projects at www.keyfilm.nl.
See their feature film projects at www.keyfilm.nl.