De Familie Film & TV
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Monique Busman & Michiel van Erp
Schollenbrugstraat 6H | 1091EX Amsterdam
info@defamilie.net | +31 20 663 3303
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De Familie Film & TV is an award winning production company in the Netherlands, founded in 2005 by producer Monique Busman and director Michiel van Erp. Our Amsterdam based company produces drama series and fiction for theatrical release and television. We are part of the EAVE network. In 2014 we released the Emmy Award and Prix Europe winning drama series RAMSES, in 2018 we released our first feature film Open Seas (script Philip Huff & Marnie Blok, director Michiel van Erp), and in 2020 drama seres I.M. (script Hugo Heijnen, director Michiel van Erp) premiered at the Dutch Film Festival, Seeds of Deceit premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2020 and we coproduced with Levitate Film Stromboli (2022, dir Michiel van Erp). Downtown (dir Michiel van Erp) is in post production, and Confettirain is in pre production.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Downtown
Director: Michiel van Erp. Screenwriter: Frank HOutappels. Cast: Jans Kesting, Yorick van Wageningen, Roeland Fernhout, Sebastián Mrkvicka, Daniel Cornelissen, Thor Braun. Country: NL/BE. Co-producer: coproduction Kaap Holland Studios, De Familie Film & TV, Eyeworks BE. Status: post-production. Release: 2026/2027. Sort: feature. Duration: 100 min. Genre: drama. Distribution/Sales: WWE & M-Appeal.
Downtown follows the story of Bas (20), Lennart (23), and Ronnie (26), three twentysomething gay men who find themselves at the center of Amsterdam’s nightlife in the 1980s. It is a time where anything seems possible, especially if you’re young. But amidst this newfound freedom, the emergence of a deadly disease looms. The AIDS epidemic slowly but surely makes its entrance into the queer community, forever changing the lives and friendship of these three men. Then, 32 years later, the Covid pandemic bears striking similarities to those anxious days, stirring up emotions Bas, Lennart, and Ronnie (now 52, 55, and 58) had buried deeply within themselves. Reunited for the first time after all these years, they are confronted with the past, their choices, and each other.
Downtown tells the story of a generation of men, who saw their youthful ideals go up in smoke, and the scars they still carry within them. Inspired by the personal experiences of the writer and the director, who were deeply involved in the vibrant club scene and experienced the devastating consequences of AIDS firsthand, the film is a celebration of life and a love letter to a generation that laid the groundwork for the sexual freedom the queer community knows today.
© Mark de Blok (Sebastián Mrcvkicka, Daniel Cornelissen & Thor Braun)
Confettirain – based on the bestseller Confettiregen by Splinter Chabot
Director: Michiel van Erp. Screenwriter: Han van Wieringen & Marnie Blok. Cast: TBD. Co-producer: coproduction with A. Private View (B). Status: pre-production. Release: 2028. Sort: feature. Duration: 100 min. Genre: drama. Distribution/Sales: Independent Films.
In Confettirain, we follow young Wobie on his courageous and difficult journey of discovery that brings him closer to self-acceptance, step by step.
During his adolescence, Wobie discovers how he differs from the norm. Although he wants to live a grand and compelling life – writing, acting, improving the world – he still has to finish school. And he is madly in love, with Daniel, a boy. His dissatisfaction with a boring school and questions about his sexuality makes Wobie becoming increasingly confused about himself, his peers and teachers – but also about his family. On a school trip to Brussels, Daniel and Wobie grow closer. Could they really belong together? But during the final exam play, Daniel brings his new girlfriend. Wobie puts on a brave face, but his heart breaks in silence. Only when he moves into student accommodation and finally experiences a radiant, reciprocated love with another boy, Wobie dares to let his family into his “real” life.
Confettirain shows the incredible difficulty to figure out who you want to be and, as an adolescent homosexual, to dare to be who you always were, even if you come from a loving family and live in a relatively safe political climate.
Boekomslag ontworpen door Anton Corbijn.