Award Show & Conference

Marcel is the director of the Dutch Music Export Foundation. He started his career as an artist manager of Dutch and foreign artists and composers. He was also a producer/business manager of the television program Jiskefet. And he is the founder and director of successful record labels such as Double T Music Holland, Brigadoon Vocal and MARS Worldwide.

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.

Jelle Beuger is chairman of the Dutch association for new image makers VERS, works for the independent distribution company Paradiso Films, manages the marketing for multiple national film production companies and is a guest teacher at the Netherlands Film Academy.

Maurits played with various bands and artists in all clubs and festivals in the Netherlands. He also gave DJ courses and production classes on Ableton Live. Now he is a Local Brand Manager and part of the European team.

Tamara Bok studied audiovisual media and has been telling stories professionally for 25 years, as a film and TV producer, voice-over, news anchor, podcast presenter and business developer. Nowadays she is a management force behind Jamming, a unique communication & design agency in the Dutch city of Utrecht.

After 15 years DJing, producing music and 12 years of working for record companies, Martijn is now Head of Marketing at the Rembrandt House Museum. His musical background was the reason that in 2015, 2016 and 2017 the museum entered into cool collaborations with Jeff Mills, Heleen Blanken and Colin Benders during Amsterdam Dance Event.

Alongside his work as film, game and media composer, Nikolaï Clavier plays viola in the Arthema String Quartet and specializes in advanced string orchestration. He has won several awards for his film scores, classical works and academic research.

Claire van Daal is a member of the Film and Media committee of the Amsterdam Art Council and chair of De Ontmoeting. Claire van Daal is programmer of the Netherlands Film Festival.

Aside from leading one of the premier Dutch media music & 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 label Deutsche Grammophon.

Thijs Havens is a musician and programmer for Eye on Sound at the Eye Film Museum, where he also composes and performs new scores for (silent) films.

Milad has successively worked for the management of Alain Clark since 2007. Among others and for music labels Universal Music and Top Notch / Noah's Ark. He currently manages two pop artists (Irene Hin, Amina) and is a creative producer at NewBe.

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

Huub Lazerom is an experienced Director Of Operations with a demonstrated history of working in the leisure & tourism industry. He has skills in Operations Management, Coaching, Hospitality Industry and Casino Management. He is also a strong human resources professional with a Post HBO focused in Business administration from Hogeschool voor Economische Studies Rotterdam (HES).

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.

Gregory Markus is a project leader at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Since 2016 he’s run RE:VIVE, an initiative that brings together the worlds of music and cultural heritage. RE:VIVE has commissioned more than 25 film scores by various musicians in collaboration with Dekmantel Festival, Eye Filmmuseum and Nous’klaer Records.

Voted “Music Supervisor of the Year” in 2020 at AIM Sync and both winner + nominee of Music & Sound Awards for work on The Crown Seasons 3 & 4 trailers, Emma is a trailer-specialist Music Supervisor and Consultant, who launched her freelance business, ‘Rubato Music’, at the start of 2021. Prior to that, Emma was in-house at a UK trailer agency – Create Advertising.

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.

Adriek van Nieuwenhuijzen got involved in IDFA in the beginning years of the festival and also worked as producer at a Dutch broadcaster. From February 2007 on she is Head of the Industry office of IDFA. In this position she is in charge of the professionals program of IDFA including the markets FORUM and Docs for Sale.

After studying psychology at the University of Amsterdam, she worked for Dutch public television and radio broadcasters for several years. She currently works at Eye Filmmuseum, where she focusses on the international promotion of films from the Netherlands, in particular documentary and animation film.

Than van Nispen is a lecturer and researcher at HKU School of Music and Technology and the Expertise Centre for Creative Technologies. Than also has a background in biology, and is a music composer for games and interaction.

Léon Noordzij is Owner & Creative Director of The Pastry Shop and has over 14 year of experience in creating exquisite film marketing content for global audiences. Clients include Netflix, Savage Film, Kaap Holland Film, Halal and Dutch Filmworks.

In 2001 Mark started his own company “Cosmic Orchestra” and began focussing on the German TV market, where he got involved into writing music for documentaries. In 2021 Mark was commissioned by the AMBC (American Battle Monument Commission) to write a Hymne for the Margraten War Cemetery.

Will Quiney is a multi-award winning music supervisor with over 14 years experience in the film and music industries. In 2021 he won a Golden Trailer award for Best music for his work on the campaign for Netflix's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and the Music and Sound Award for Best Re-record or Adaptation in a trailer for CODA.

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).

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

Paul Stevelmans was editor-in-chief of the Dutch online film music magazine Score from 2004 to 2021. Now he writes for the Facebook group Score Magazine: CD and book reviews and interviews with Dutch and foreign film composers. Also, since 2008, he has been a member of The International Film Music Critics Association.

Arjan Vlakveld is editor-in-chief at Dutch public broadcaster NTR and responsible for programs and projects such as Top2000, Night of Pop Music, North Sea Jazz Festival and Eurosonic Noorderslag. As a director he made around twenty series and documentaries. 

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.

Marcel Alexander Wiebenga worked as Strategy Director and Partner at the Amsterdam-based music agency Sizzer. In 2021 together with Nicholas van den Doel, he launched Howl, a music agency focusing on strategy and meaningful music usage for brands and also Ringo, a data-first, tech-driven platform that simplifies the music licensing processes.

Maarten Wijdenes is Head of Production at the Netherlands Film Fund, the national agency responsible for supporting film production and film-related activities in the Netherlands.

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.

Hannelore Zwitserlood is known for her work on the radio. She worked at various shows on Radio 538, Qmusic, Radio 10 and Radio Veronica. Hannelore has been a voice over and voice actor for 16 years and teaches news reading courses. Now she has her own podcast 'Hannelore in je oren' and she voices several other podcasts.