The Netherlands Film Fund () is a

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for

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s and was founded in 1993. The Netherlands Film Fund is itself mainly subsidized by the Dutch

Ministry of Education, Culture and Science The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (; OCW) is the Dutch Ministry responsible for education, culture, science, research, gender equality and communications. The Ministry was created in 1918 as the Ministry of Education, Arts and Sci ...

. In 2007, the total budget of the fund was

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33,000,000. The fund gave €651,174 subsidy to the film ''

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'' (1997) and €578,570 to the film '' Black Book'' (2006). Since 2001, the Netherlands Film Fund and the

Netherlands Film Festival The Netherlands Film Festival () is an annual film festival, held in September and October of each year in the city of Utrecht. During the ten-day festival, Dutch film productions and co-productions are exhibited. Besides feature films, the prog ...

recognize

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results of Dutch films with awards. Currently, there are four different box office awards: the Crystal Film (10,000 visitors for

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s), the

Golden Film The Golden Film () is a film award recognizing domestic box office achievements in the Netherlands. The Golden Film is awarded to films from the Netherlands once they have sold . The award is an initiative by the Netherlands Film Festival and t ...

(100,000 visitors), the Platinum Film (400,000 visitors), and the

Diamond Film The Diamond Film () is a film award recognising domestic box office achievements in the Netherlands. The Diamond Film is awarded to films from the Netherlands once they have sold 1,000,000 cinema tickets or more during the original circulation. ...

(1,000,000 visitors).

References

External links

Official website
1993 establishments in the Netherlands Film organisations in the Netherlands Government agencies of the Netherlands {{film-org-stub