Menuetto

Menuetto's recent titles include Cannes winners La Civil and The Eight Mountains, Berlin-selected The Lost Boys, and Everybody Loves Diamonds, a major series service-produced for Amazon.

Then there is Will, a film in association with Netflix that tells the story of two young policemen in Antwerp during World War Two who find themselves caught between working for the occupiers and aiding the Resistance. In addition to Netflix, the project brought together producers from Belgium, the Netherlands and Poland. Belgian financing included the Flanders Audiovisual Fund, the Centre du Cinéma in Wallonia, the Belgian Tax Shelter, the former Antwerp Film Bonus and Screen Flanders.

“That allowed us to work with a lot of talent form Flanders and to shoot in a lot of Flemish locations,” says Everaert. The director was Tim Mielants (Peaky Blinders S03) and the DoP Robrecht Heyvaert (Bad Boys for Life), with the costume, production design and editing departments all staffed from Flanders.

Locations used included Antwerp’s majestic Central Station, the arches beneath the railway tracks, and the Art Nouveau fire station in Antwerp South. "So, there was a lot of production value coming from Flanders," Everaert says. 

This is typical of the advantages that Flanders can offer international co-productions. “We can draw on highly skilled and multilingual casts and crews, plus top-of-the-line production and post-production facilities,” explains Nancy Schoesetters, who looks after finance and business development at Menuetto. “Last but not least, Flanders has many faces, from medieval to modern, from rural to urban.”

Flanders also offers numerous benefits when it comes to film finance.