Indonesia’s Base Leisure and Netherlands-based New Amsterdam revealed on the first JAFF Market that they’ve collaborated on two initiatives. Held concurrently.
The collaboration consists of the restricted collection “Hemelrijk” from writer-director Jim Taihuttu, who beforehand labored with each firms on “De Oost”. The second undertaking is a function movie primarily based on the novel “Residence” by Indonesian author Leila Chudori.
Manufacturing of “Hemelrijk” will start on the finish of 2025, whereas improvement of “Pulang” will start in early 2025.
The information was introduced in the course of the JAFF Market Convention, which targeted on the just lately signed co-production treaty between Indonesia and the Netherlands.
“We’re delighted to be working once more with Jim Taihuttu on the collection Hemelrijk, which he wrote and directed, and to collaborate with New Amsterdam on these two initiatives, together with the variation of Leila Chudori Chudori’s novel Pulang,” mentioned Base Leisure co-CEO Shanty Harmayn. “Each initiatives current highly effective and significant household tales that construct cultural bridges between Indonesia and the Netherlands. We sit up for the continued success of our earlier collaboration on De Oost.”
New Amsterdam Producer Sander Verdonk mentioned: “We’re very a lot trying ahead to returning to Indonesia to shoot our new co-production Hemelrijk with a producer’s dream companion, Ibu Shanty Harmayn from Base Leisure. We will even co-develop and produce it. Tailored from “Pulang” (Residence) by Leila Chudori, the most effective books in Indonesia. It will additional construct robust cooperation between our two international locations and the brand new treaty will even assist us loads.
