Inti Films

Inti Films, Vzw.
Formation Brussels, Belgium (5 May 1993 (1993-05-05))
Founders Peter Brosens
Peter Krüger
Ode Halflands
Hans Herbots
Type Nonprofit film production company
Registration no. BE 450.253.016
Headquarters Brussels, Belgium
Coordinates 50°51′24″N 4°20′58″E / 50.856706°N 4.349391°E / 50.856706; 4.349391Coordinates: 50°51′24″N 4°20′58″E / 50.856706°N 4.349391°E / 50.856706; 4.349391
Products Feature Films
Creative Documentary Films
Art Films
Services Film Development
Film Production
Film Directing
Chairman
 Michel Van Dievoet
Executive Director
 Peter Krüger
Michel Van Dievoet
Barbara Vanderlinden
Hans De Wolf
Website intifilms.com


Inti Films (/ˈɪnti fɪlmz/) is a Brussels-based nonprofit film production company established in 1993.[1] Since 1993, it released over 40 films and became one of the leading nonprofit film companies in Belgium, dedicated to producing high quality creative documentaries and feature films. Inti Films' projects have tackled issues of social, political and historical interest that open minds, provoke dialogue, and encourage engagement.

Inti Films, founded by best friends Peter Brosens and Peter Krüger,[2] released its first creative documentary film in 1993. It adopted the "Inti Films" name in 1993 when it was officially incorporated in Brussels. The name is derived from "Inti", the name of an ancient Incan sun god, representing light, which is quintessential for film.

In its early years a minor player in Belgium documentary film industry, Inti Films began to grow in the late 1990s, spurred by a successful collaboration between the directors' Peter Brosens and Peter Krüger. It's Belgian's most active creative documentary film production company for up-and-coming screenwriters and film directors.

With Peter Brosens and Peter Krüger Inti Films became one of the primary homes of the creative documentary film in Belgium. In the 1990s, Inti Films' major feature creative documentary productions were Peter Brosens' City of the Steppes (1993) and State of Dogs (1998), with Poets of Mongolia (1999) part of the internationally acclaimed Mongolia Trilogy.[3]

In 2005, Peter Brosens left Inti Films to found with Jessica Woodwordth the film company "Bo Films".[4] Since then Peter Krüger is Executive Director of Inti Films, and since 2007 the members of the Board of Directors are lawyer Michel Van Dievoet (Chairman), contemporary art curator and art critic Prof. Barbara Vanderlinden, and Prof. Hans De Wolf.[5]

In 2014, Inti Films released Peter Krüger's second award-wining feature film N - The Madness of Reason. The film is a collaboration with Nigerian-born poet and novelist Ben Okri. It was released at the Berlinale 2014 and is three times winner of the Ensor awards at the 2015 Ostend Film Festival (Film Festival Oostende).[6]

In 2015, Inti Films announced the third feature film by Peter Krüger, The Age of Magic, a film adaptation of The Age of Magic (2014) novel by Ben Okri.[7]

History

1990s

In 1998, following a meeting in London, Inti Films announces to expand its business. Together with a pool of young European independent producers they decide to form the alliance D Network. The aim is to share information and ideas, and get co-production and co-financing off the ground. The founding members include Peter Brosens and Peter Krüger from Inti Films; Heino Deckert from Ma.Ja.De Films in Berlin; Dutch Friederike Freie from Ganavim Ba Hok in Amsterdan; Gwynneth Lloyd from the London-based Sweet Child Films; Jens Meurer from German Egoli Tossell Film; and Liam O' Neill from Paradox Pictures, Dublin.[8][9]

2000s

Between 2000 and 2009, Inti Films' productions and co-productions focus on the creative documentary film genre. It releases seven films, of which, 2000's The Stars' Caravan by Arto Halonen; and 2001's Markku Lehmuskallio and Anastasia Lapsui The Good Shepherd, and Peter Krüger and Peter Brosens' The Eclipse of Sint-Gillis. In 2002 Manu Riche releases with Inti Films Ikones / Boudauin I. In 2003 Peter Hegedus's The Inheritance, and Jessica Woodworth's The Virgin Diaries are co-produced by Inti Films. Peter Krüger's The Last Sigh is produced by Inti Films.

In 2008 Initi Film releases, the Dutch artist Renzo Martens' Episode III: Enjoy Poverty, an art film on the exploitation of third world poverty. This is the first film in a series engaging with contemporary visual art.

2010s

Since 2012, Inti film releases four award winning feature films. In 2012, Inti Films co-produces Kinshasa Kids by Marc-Henri Wajnberg, an official selection at Venice Days, in 2013, Drift (2013) by Belgian emerging film directors Benny Vandendriessche and Dirk Hendrikx. Drift wins the FIPRESCI award at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival.[10][11] in 2014 Inti Film releases Peter Krüger's N - Madness of Reason, a film that follows the spirit of Raymond Borremans (Michael Lonsdale), a French man who left Europe and who dies in 1988 in Abidjan and who's spirit wonders across the West-African continent and evokes a confrontation between European and West-African culture. In 2015, N - Madness of Reason wins three Ensor awards at the Ostend Film Festival (Film Festival Oostende), Bodkin Ras, a first feature film by Duch-Iranian film director Kaweh Modiri, co-produced by Inti Films, wins the 2016 FIPRESCI award for Best Film in Bright Future at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Screenwriters and directors

Since 1995 Inti Films produces and co-produces films and documentary films by Ben Asamoah (Belgium/Ghana), Daria Belova (Russia), Sofie Benoot (Belgium), Dorothée van den Berghe (Belgium), Peter Brosens (Belgium), Sakhya Byamba (Mongolia), Jan de Coster (Belgium), Gawan Fagard (Belgium), Peter van Goethem (Belgium), Odo Halflants (Belgium), Arto Halonen (Finland), Peter Hegedus (Hungary/Australia), Maria von Heland (Sweden), Dirk Hendrikx (Belgium), Thiery Knauff (Belgium/Democratic Republic of the Congo), Peter Krüger (Belgium), Anastasia Lapsui (Russia), Markku Lehmuskallio (Finland), Renzo Martens (the, Netherlands), Gerrit Messiaen (Belgium), Kaweh Modiri, (Iran, the, Netherlands), Christina Vandekerckhove (Belgium), Gust Van den Berghe (Belgium), Benny Vandendriessche (Belgium), Lut Vandekeybus (Belgium), Ellen Vermeulen (the, Netherlands), Mathijs Vleugels (Belgium), Griet van Reeth (Belgium), Manu Riche (Belgium), Steve Thielemans (Belgium), Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh, Marc-Henri Wajnberg (Belgium), and Jessica Woodworth (United States).

Co-producers, broadcasting companies, and funding bodies

Inti Films' projects are international co-productions, financed by government film funds and broadcasters. Since 1993, Inti Films has co-produced films with the following film production companies: Australian Fin. Coop. (Australia); AVD KULeuven (Belgium); Balthazar Film (the, Netherlands);[12] Blinker Filmproduktion (Germany);[13] CBA - Centre de l'Audiovisuel à Bruxelles (Belgium);[14] Cobra Films (Belgium);[15] Crescendo Films (Linkebeek, Belgium);[16] D Network;[17] Dieptescherpte (Belgium); Egoli Tossell Film (Germany); Films du Sablier; Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, (Paris, France); Gloria Film (Paris, France); Hanaut Cinéma; Images Plus; Juniper Films (Finland);Lemming Film; Ma.Ja De productions; Magic Hour Films; Millenium Film (Finland); Min Films; Mollywood (Belgium); Pieter van Huystee Film (the, Netherlands); Point of View (Belgium); Revolver Media (Amsterdam, the, Netherlands); Soul Vision; The Icehouse; Tobch Toli Productions (Mongolia); Tossell Pictures; Wajnberg Productions; and Wave Pictures.

Inti Films' productions are co-produced with, and broadcast on, major national television channels: ARTE France, ARTE Belgium, ARTE, CNC, Česká televize, DR TV, FR 3, FRANCE TELE, HOS, ITVS: Independent Television Service, LA SEPT, ORF, RTBF, SBS, SVT, TSR - Télévision Suisse Romande, VRT, CANVAS, VPRO, YLE, YLE/TV 1, YLE/TV 2, YLE, Snessa TV, ZDF - Zweiten Deutschen Fernsehens.

Inti Films productions receive support of AVEK, The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture (Finland); CoBO Fund (National Broadcasters Co-production Fund); Communauté Française (Belgium); EURIMAGES; Film i Väst-Film i Väst (Sweden); Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (Flemish Film Fund); Fonds Beeldende Kunst (the, Netherlands); European MEDIA Programme; MEDIAFONDS; National Lotery (Belgium); NCDO; Prins Bernard Cultuur Fonds (the, Netherlands); Province of East-Flanders (Belgium); SCACD; Taxshelter Mollywood (Belgium): Vlaamse Gemeenschpascommissie (Belgium).

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ "Company organisation". www.intifilms.com. Retrieved 2016-02-02.
  2. ↑ Ian Mundell. "No reality without fiction". Retrieved 2016-02-10.
  3. ↑ "Mongolia Trilogy". 2016-02-08.
  4. ↑ "Peter Brosens". argosarts.org. 2016-02-08. Retrieved 2016-02-10.
  5. ↑ "S. C.- H.V". www.ejustice.just.fgov.be. Retrieved 2016-02-09.
  6. ↑ "Langspeelfilms". filmfestivaloostende.be. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
  7. ↑ Borys Kit (2017-01-07). "Varia, Peter Krüger en zijn ‘Overpeinzingen bij de overgang’". www.cinevox.be. Retrieved 2016-02-07.
  8. ↑ Andy Fry. "Upfront: D Network to expand development and distribution". realscreen.com. Retrieved 2016-02-10.
  9. ↑ Tom White (May 19, 1999). "Short Takes, May 19". www.documentary.org. Retrieved 2016-02-10.
  10. ↑ "FIPRESCI Festival report 62nd International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg, 2013".
  11. ↑ "Official website".
  12. ↑ "State of Dogs". www.imdb.com. Retrieved 2016-02-10.
  13. ↑ "N – The Madness of Reason". www.blinkerfilm.de. Retrieved 2016-02-10.
  14. ↑ "State of Dogs". www.imdb.com. Retrieved 2016-02-10.
  15. ↑ "Cobra Films" (PDF). www.cobra-films.be. Retrieved 2016-02-10.
  16. ↑ "Kinshasa Kids" (PDF). www.kinshasakids.com. Retrieved 2016-02-10.
  17. ↑ Andy Fry (February 1, 1998). "Upfront: D Network to expand development and distribution". realscreen.com. Retrieved 2016-02-10.

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