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Maarten van der Ven - Producer
Maarten van der Ven (born 1981) holds a bachelor's degree in Film, Television, and Theatre Studies from Utrecht University and graduated from the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in 2009. During his studies, he produced the films Bingo by Timur Ismailov (winner of 18 international festival awards) and Flemish Pride by Thijs Schreuder (recipient of the Netherlands Film Fund Documentary Wildcard). While still a student, Maarten began working at Isabella Films, eventually taking on the role of junior producer. His credits include Winter in Wartime by Martin Koolhoven (shortlisted for the 2010 Oscars), The Aviatrix of Kazbek by Ineke Smits, Adrienn Pál by Ágnes Kocsis (Un Certain Regard 2010), and Lena by Christophe van Rompaey (Toronto International Film Festival 2011).
VENFILM
In 2013, Maarten founded VENFILM, a company dedicated to collaborating with passionate visual storytellers eager to create impactful stories for their intended audiences.
VENFILM has produced documentaries such as When the War Ends by Thijs Schreuder (Best Debut, Netherlands Film Festival 2011) and A Goat for a Vote by Jeroen van Velzen (nominated for the Golden Calf Best Documentary 2014). On the fiction side, VENFILM has produced shorts including Wednesdays (Best Dutch Short, Go Short 2012), Balance and P by Aaron Rookus, A Day Off by Wouter Stoter (Golden Calf nomination NFF 2015), and Erkhii Mergen or Why the Marmot Doesn't Have a Thumb by Thessa Meijer (winner of the Wildcard and Dioraphte Award). In 2016, VENFILM released its first feature film, Waterboys by Robert Jan Westdijk, which attracted 60,000 admissions in the Netherlands to date, alongside the shorts Inconvenient Comfort by Adam Fillenz and Copyrette by Marc de Leeuw. This year, Maarten produced Thessa Meijer's debut mid-length film, The Day My House Fell. On the development front, VENFILM is working on a feature by Aaron Rookus and a world-building series development titled AFSLUIT DIJK.
In addition to producing, Maarten van der Ven works as a line producer for well-known Dutch companies, contributing to projects such as Quality Time, Tiger Competition IFFR 2017, and Peterpanman. He has also participated in the Creative Producers Lab at the Binger Filmlab and the Berlinale Talent Campus.
