In 2013 Maarten established VENFILM, a company that wants to work with passionate visual authors , who are eager to tell stories that intend to make a difference for the audience they where created for. VENFILM produced the documentaries When the war ends by director Thijs Schreuder (Best Debut, Netherlands FF 2011) and A goat for a vote by Jeroen van Velzen (nomination Golden Calf Best Documentary 2014) On the fiction side VENFILM produced the shorts Wednesdays (a.o. Best Dutch Short, Go Short 2012), Balance and P by Aaron Rookus, A day off by Wouter Stoter (Golden Calf nomination NFF 2015), Erkhii Mergen or why the marmot doesn’t have a thumb by Thessa Meijer (winner Wildcard and Dioraphte Award) In 2016 the company released its first feature film, Waterboys by Robert Jan Westdijk and the shorts Inconvenient comfort by Adam Fillenz and Copyrette by Marc de Leeuw. On the development side it’s working on new projects by Aaron Rookus and Thessa Meijer. And VENFILM is the Dutch coproducer on Agnes Kocsis' EDEN. Besides producing Maarten van der Ven also works as a line producer for renowned Dutch companies and was taking part in the Creative Producers Lab at the Binger Filmlab and the Berlinale Talent Campus.
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