Success stories

Talent Travels

Talent

Successful Flemish directors used to face a dilemma: settle for a safe career at home, or take the risk of moving to Hollywood. But the present generation can have it all.

Diver's Dream Studio Comes True

Film Studios

LITES Water Stage & Studios located in Vilvoorde, includes three conventional studios, along with space for facilities such as production offices, wardrobe and make-up. But the star of the complex is the water stage, the most advanced in the world.

Effects you can feel

Talent

Life is never dull for special effects team Wulf FX. One day they’ll be making it rain on Emily Dickinson, the next they’ll be pouring blood over Nicolas Cage. Or they might be blowing up a miniature building, creating a tree giant, or designing a chariot made of dinosaur bones.

Flanders gets into deep water

Film Studios

A successful water shoot needs everything to fall into place: the right facilities, skilled crews, and a financial environment that delivers the whole package at a reasonable price. Flanders has it all.

Costume designer Charlotte Willems

Talent

It took her a while to settle on a career, but costume designer Charlotte Willems is now firmly established on the Flemish production scene.

Making of Another Day of Life

Animation

How filmmakers in five countries came together to make a part-live action, part-animated film based on Another Day of Life, Ryszard Kapuściński’s first-hand account of the civil war in Angola…

Missing in action (again)

Co-production

The producers of cult TV series The Missing were so impressed with the set-up they found in Flanders that they’re returning for a second helping. Actually, counting The White Queen, make that a third.

Nordic Noir made in Flanders

Co-production

Flanders may be a little far south to count as ‘Nordic’, but Ghent-based Lunanime is developing a strong taste for TV ‘noir’ made in Flanders.

Racer and the Jailbird

Co-production

For Racer and the Jailbird, the third film from Bullhead director Michaël R. Roskam, Savage Film’s Bart Van Langendonck has managed to unite all sections of the Belgian film world in one adventurous funding package.

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