In October 2020 during Playgrounds – The Art Department 2020 the hybrid edition, Submarine Channel had a talk with film director Martin Koolhoven. In this interview he reflects on the future of cinema, the streaming wars and how COVID-19 is impacting the film industry.
Martin Koolhoven is one of the most prominent Dutch active filmmakers. His work covers a wide range of genres. Over the years, he successfully directed a comedy (Schnitzel Paradise), a war film (Winter in Wartime) and a very much grisly western (Brimstone – his first film shot in English). He is now working on a thriller set in Jakarta in 1946.
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