The mid-length fiction film Bezuidenhout had its festive premiere in a packed house last night at the Pathé Buitenhof cinema in The Hague. The film tells the story of a forgotten bombing of The Hague’s Bezuidenhout district during World War II.

You can certainly call the film a passion project. Actor and writer Dirk Gunther Mohr spent almost 1.5 years writing the script for the film. After fruitless efforts to find a producer, Dirk, who also plays the lead role, took matters into his own hands and decided to produce the film himself. A successful crowdfunding campaign brought in enough budget to be able to shoot the film with Wouter Hermans as director and an involved cast and crew.

When he approached Stichting Agie, we knew this would be a special film and we joined the project as a minority co-producer. We are very glad that we helped make the post-production of the film possible through a contribution from the Dutch Film Fund.