There’s a good buzz going around the Festival Pavilion. A variety of industry advisors including writers, directors, producers and script editors are greeting one another as they arrive for the third annual MakersvoorMakers initiative of the Binger Filmlab, the Dutch Film Fund and the Netherlands Film Festival.
In an intriguing conversation that journeys through this highly awarded filmmaker’s highly personal style, it emerges that for Lisandro Alonso it’s the questions that matter and the answers… well they’re more a matter of opinion.
Christine Vachon, flown in by Binger to spend twenty-four hours in Amsterdam with the Dutch Producers of Company!, had an additional commitment – the annual Variety lecture at the Holland Film Meeting in Utrecht.
What became abundantly clear during the two and a half hours of the Dutch Angle Public Debate The @ of Art Film is that the future is already here. It’s fast and it’s hungry, and anyone involved in the financing and distribution of independent film better get with it, or prepare to get eaten alive.