Award Show & Conference

After being Managing Director for BMG Production Music, Laura Bell now navigates the complexity of researching and selecting songs, licensing soundtracks and developing filmscores as an independent music supervisor.

Since 2011 Jet Berkhout has been working for NPO Radio 4, where she presents De Muziekfabriek on fridays and saturdays. Wherever possible, be it in the space between sliding doors or village churces, she plays with the string quartet Striking Four and string orchestra Lundi Bleu.

Claire van Daal is a member of the Film and Media committee of the Amsterdam Art Council and chair of De Ontmoeting. Previously, she was a member of the selection committee for the NFF.

After his stint as the drummer for Bettie Serveert, Berend Dubbe focused on sample-pop/orchestrapop compositions as Bauer. In addition, Dubbe composes music for film, advertising, podcast and art projects and is a professional voice over.

Aside from leading one of the premier Dutch mediamusic & sound design boutique studios, composer, arranger and producer Stephen Emmer is the initiator of Buma Music in Motion.

After earning her stripes at Sizzer, Ilana Goldstoff now works as Sync & Licensing manager at the famed classical music lable Deutsche Grammophon.

Danielle Guirguis founded SMARTHOUSE FILMS – ARTVERTISING & INDIE FILMS. She is a regular speaker/juror on festivals like Eurobest, Dubai Lynx, Buma Awards, Gerety Awards, ADCN and Go Short Int. Film Festival, a member of EAVE and the treasurer of the Executive Board of ACE Producers.

Ruben van der Hammen has an editor since 2011. His work includes the Emmy award winning films ‘Minders Shot Down’ and ‘Etgar Keret: Based on a true story’. In 2020 he received the ‘Gouden Kalf’ award for best editing.

Thijs Havens is a musician/composer and musical curator for Filmmuseum EYE for whom he also composes & performs new scores for (silent) films.

Merel van Helsdingen is founder and Managing Director at Nxt Museum and has worked on Marketing and Partnerships for tech, music and entertainment companies in London.

Since 2018 Amsterdam based composer Daan Hofman mainly focuses on composing for film and has written music for 15 short films. Last year, he won the BMIM 'New Talent Award' and recently, he has also won the 2nd prize at CAIFF with his score for the short film 'I'll Be Here' by Tiffany Murray.

With his Amsterdam based production company Johnnywood Productions, director Jon Karthaus co-produced his first feature film debut called 'Homies', wrote and directed his second film 'Bella Donna's' as well as the multicultural blockbuster ‘Bon Bini Holland II’.

Matthijs Kieboom (1985) has been a fulltime composer for over a decade and is Head of Film Music in one of Holland’s leading conservatories.

Rens Machielse is the former director of HKU Music and Technology. Rens composed music for over three hundred theatre plays, TV series, films, documentaries, commercials and animations.

Since 2007, Neeltje Mooring runs her own company SOLID as a rock and operates internationally as an independent publisher, sync agent and music supervisor.

Susanne van Nierop is editor-in-chief of Adformatie, the leading Dutch platform in marketing, media and advertising. She is also a board member of the SPIN Awards for innovative work in digital creativity.

Léon Noordzij is Creative director, Trailer Editor and Co-owner of The Pastry Shop and has over 14 year of experience in the European film industry. Clients include Netflix, Savage Film, Kaap Holland Film, Baldr, Lemming Film and Dutch Filmworks.

Between his live gigs as a keyboard player or Musical Director, Jeroen Rietbergen composes and scores soundtracks for feature films, one of which has won him 2 prestigious Buma Awards.

Martin de Ruiter is Programmer of ‘Eye on Sound’ in Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam. He has written several scores for silent films including ‘un Chien Andalou’ (1929), ‘Submarine’ (1928) and ‘Der Mandarin’ (1918).

As a film music composer, Alex Simu has worked on a great number of award-winning international film productions since 2010. In 2016, he was awarded with the Golden Calf for Best Music for Beyond Sleep.

Marion Slewe works at the Production department of the Dutch Film Academy, where she is responsible for the distribution of studentfilms, contracts, festival policies and the organisation of the Keep an Eye Film Academy Festival. Additionally, she is involved with Staccato Films.

Paul Stevelmans has been editor-in-chief of the online film music magazine Score since 2004. He writes CD and book reviews and conducts interviews with Dutch and foreign film composers. Also, since 2008, he has been a member of The International Film Music Critics Association.

Django Weisz Blanchetta is Managing Director at SuperHeroes, which he co-founded in 2009. Before launching SuperHeroes, Django cut his teeth as an Interaction Designer, Management Consultant and Operations Director.

After graduating as a cameraman at the Dutch Film Academy, Bart Westerlaken chose to become a composer. He scored various feature films and television like crime series Penoza, Het geheime dagboek van Hendrik Groen and the documentary Strike a Pose.

Maarten Wijdenes is a project manager Production Screen NL at the Netherlands Film Fund, the national agency responsible for supporting film production and film-related activities in the Netherlands.

Videogame composer Jonathan van den Wijngaarden likes to tell games’ stories through music. His work can be heard in titles such as Honor of Kings (Tencent), World of Warplanes (Wargaming) and the best selling VR game Arizona Sunshine (Vertigo Games/Jaywalkers Interactive).

Bob Zimmerman has composed and arranged for numerous theatre, television and film productions. His works include films De Avonden and Tirza and documentaries De Nieuwe Wildernis and Holland, natuur in de Delta.