Revolver Amsterdam

23/11/2022

The Occupant | Sci-fi thriller now in financing and shooting 2023
Co-writer / director
With and more cast tba soon

21/11/2022

Super happy that the BFI decided to support our English language sci-fi thriller “The Occupant” through their Global Screen fund. Thanks to our UK co-producers Kwesi Dickson and Jay Taylor at The Electric Shadow Company for your ongoing support.

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news/uk-global-screen-fund-14-international-co-productions










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25/10/2022

The Dutch Filmfund granted generous support for our minority co-production “When the Light Breaks” by Icelandic director Rúnar Rúnarsson. His first feature Volcano premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2011. His sophomore feature Sparrows won the Golden Shell at San Sebastian in 2015. “When the Light Breaks explores the first loss of a loved one and the journey that follows.

Production companies: Compass Films, Pegasus Pictures, Halibut.

27/09/2022

Our newest short film Bezorgd (Engels: At a Glance) will have its premiere at the Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht on September 27th!

During his evening shift, pizza delivery boy Izem suspects domestic violence is taking place behind the doors of a wealthy customer. Do the police believe his warning?
At a Glance is about a quest for connection by people from various social backgrounds, who are challenged to shake off their prejudices. For Izem and his customers, this is not without risk.

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14/09/2022

In the meantime shooting of “Electric Child” has moved to the Philippines!

14/09/2022

Short documentary “No Nation Without Culture” by Vladlena Sandu will premiere at DocLisboa in October. Produced by Mimesis in collaboration with Revolver.
““While shooting a film in April of 2021 in Grozny, Chechnya (the birthplace of my mother and where I grew up), I felt the influence of the gigantic portraits of Putin, Kadyrov Senior and Kadyrov Junior all over the city. They observed me from everywhere. In parallel to the production of the film, we set out to capture the feeling of totalitarianism that these portraits conveyed. We got up at 4 in the morning and shot through the window of a tinted car because such actions put us under threat of persecution. We understood that we were documenting the time of the birth of fascism in Russia.” Vladena Sandu

13/09/2022

We are happy to share that our co-production EAMI (IFFR Tiger Award winner) will be the film that will represent Paraguay at the Oscars. Directed by the amazing and produced by the even so amazing

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12/08/2022

Extremely happy that our feature film 'Mandai River' by Michael Sewandono just received full financial production support of €1M, kickstarting the financing and packaging progress.

Especially proud as this is quite a unique film to receive such trust from the fund: this will be Michael's first feature length film, set in nowadays Indonesia against the backdrop of the palm-oil industry. A drama/thriller in English and Indonesian language and to say it is a complex and ambitious project is an understatement.

But most of all, incredibly topical and urgent and we really want to thank all the supporters during the extensive development process, including the Nederlands Filmfonds, EAVE (Ties that Biend) and Cannes L'Atelier and co-writer Roelof Jan Minneboo

ONWARDS!

02/08/2022

MEMORY BY VLADLENA SANDU (mini teaser)
Vladlena Sandu, a survivor of the war in Chechnya between 1994 and 1998, studies her memories in order to transcend and transform them via cinema.

Documentary currently in production

30/06/2022

Our international co-production EAMI is still making wonderful waves at the festival circuit! After winning the Tiger Award in Rotterdam the film screened at major festivals such as VISIONS DU RÉEL (France). BAFICI (Argentina), SYDNEY IFF, HONG KONG IFF and FICG (Guadalajara, Mexico).

In July, EAMI will be part of many festivals and we are very proud that we’ll screen at INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL KARLOVY VARY (Czech Republic), NEW HORIZONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Poland), GOLDEN APRICOTYEREVAN INT' FILM FESTIVAL (Armenia ), FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE COLOMBINO (Argentina) and SEMANA DE CINE LATINOAMERICANO (Argentina).
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27/06/2022

One of our upcoming feature films ‘Under the Naked Sky’ by writer/director Lilian Sijbesma has been selected as one of the projects in post-production to be presented during Karlovy Vary Int Filmfestival at the First Cut+ Works in Progress Selection.

First Cut+ is a programme created for boosting the competitiveness and marketability of feature films that previously participated in First Cut Lab. The programme was launched in 2020 through close cooperation with two dynamic and well-established film industry platforms: Trieste’s When East Meets West and Karlovy Vary IFF’s Eastern Promises Industry Days. Each year, it promotes a portfolio of 16 fiction feature films at the stage of post-production – eight of them will be presented in Karlovy Vary.

Producer Kirsi Saivosalmi will be on-site to present the film!

02/02/2022

Amazing! Our coproduction EAMI just won the Tiger Award at the Int. Filmfestival Rotterdam. Big congratulations for director Paz Encina and the whole team, so much love and hard work went into this beautiful film!cine .df .premium

01/02/2022

A great interview with creative producer Kirsi Saivosalmi about working on our co-production EAMI by Paz Encina, premiering at this years Tiger Competition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam

“I hope this film gets to travel internationally as much as possible,” the producer states. She adds that the story it tells should have a universal resonance in spite of its Paraguayan settings. “Nature bleeds everywhere. As we speak, this is happening around the world.”

https://see-nl.com/artikel/20220127-iffr-tiger-competition-eami

Co-producer Kirsi Saivosalmi talks about Paz Encina's EAMI, which is selected for IFFR 2022

25/01/2022

Trailer of EAMI by Paz Encina. Premiere at the International Filmfestival Rotterdam 2022 (Tiger Competition). Coproduced by Revolver Amsterdam with support of the Dutch Film Fund / Huber Bals Fund.

19/01/2022

Our co-production EAMI will have its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam as part of the Tiger Competition. I am so immensely proud: this is such a strong, unique and very urgent movie.

Paraguayan director Paz Encina travelled to Chaco for this film. She immersed herself in Ayoreo-Totobiegosode mythology, and listened to heartrending stories about how the people are being chased off their land. Based on the knowledge she acquired, she made a dreamy, magic-realist film about a little girl called Eami. After her village is destroyed and her community disintegrates, Eami wanders the rainforest. She is the bird-god – she explains in the poetic voice-over, in her own language – looking for whomever may be left.

15/01/2022

“EAMI” by Paz Encina will have its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam as part of the Tiger Competition!
Eami means ‘forest’ in Ayoreo. It also means ‘world’. The indigenous Ayoreo-Totobiegosode people do not make a distinction: the trees, animals, and plants that have surrounded them for centuries are all that they know. They now live in an area experiencing the fastest deforestation on the planet.

Paraguayan director Paz Encina travelled to Chaco for this film. She immersed herself in Ayoreo-Totobiegosode mythology, and listened to heartrending stories about how the people are being chased off their land. Based on the knowledge she acquired, she made a dreamy, magic-realist film about a little girl called Eami.

15/12/2021

Very happy to receive support by the for feature film “Electric Child” by director/writer: Simon Jaquemet
Logline: Sonny and his wife Akiko are overwhelmed with delight when their first son is born. Sonny is a computer scientist working on a high-profile project that consists of creating a brand new, complex AI life form that exists on a self-contained, virtual island. When Sonny and Akiko’s son is diagnosed with a rare, life threatening disease, their blissful life as young parents takes a tragic turn.

Producer: 8horses (CH)
Co-producers: Unafilm (DE), Revolver Amsterdam (NL)