Globetrotting competition, markets and movie improvement and coaching veteran Marten Rabarts is becoming a member of the Worldwide Movie Pageant Rotterdam (IFFR) workforce to steer its business actions as Head Of IFFR Professional.
The New Zealand-born movie skilled already has robust connections with the Netherlands. He was creative director of the event initiative the Binger Filmlab in Amsterdam for 12 years, adopted by a four-year stint as Head of EYE Worldwide (now SeeNL), selling Dutch movie and movie tradition worldwide.
Rabarts left the latter position in 2019 to tackle the position of competition director on the Whanau Marama – New Zealand Worldwide Movie Pageant for 2 years. Most just lately he labored as a script mentor on the inaugural version of Jane Campion’s A Wave In The Ocean Lab amongst actions on the worldwide movie circuit.
In his new position, Rabarts will work intently with IFFR’s Pageant Director, Vanja Kaludjercic, and report into Chief of Content material, Melissa van der Schoor.
“Marten has an unbelievable monitor file in each growing and implementing business programmes and in elevating Dutch movie tradition on the worldwide stage – making him the perfect individual to spearhead and revitalise our business providing, throughout each our current strands and by forging new initiatives,” mentioned Kaludjercic.
“His strategic, entrepreneurial and curatorial imaginative and prescient is unparalleled and we’re very proud to have him becoming a member of the workforce. IFFR has a historical past of trailblazing each in creative choice but additionally by creating very important areas for the business to fulfill and collaborate – and we stay up for constructing on that in our upcoming version collectively.”
The upcoming IFFR Professional Days will run from January 30 to February 5, 2025, throughout the framework of the 54th version of IFFR, unfolding January 30 to February ,9 2025.
Spanning the co-production market CineMart, Professional Hub in addition to expertise improvement applications resembling Rotterdam Lab and BoostNL, IFFR Professional is integral to IFFR’s ambition to nurture expertise.
Rabarts’ arrival comes because the competition gears as much as mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the Rotterdam Lab in 2025. The coaching workshop for rising producers has supported a myriad of now established worldwide movie professionals in constructing and growing their community.
IFFR can even characteristic an business day devoted to the Dutch movie ecosystem. One other key focus would be the Darkroom, IFFR Professional’s program of work-in-progress screenings that takes place throughout CineMart. The initiatives offered are both supported by the Hubert Bals Fund or previously offered at CineMart.
“After greater than 20 years shut collaboration with IFFR, I’m honoured and excited to return on board as Head of IFFR Professional, to construct on the unbelievable legacy of award-winning movies and lots of highly effective careers which were nurtured and launched in Rotterdam over the previous a long time,” mentioned Rabarts.
“I share a imaginative and prescient with my colleagues on the Pageant and the Hubert Bals Fund that the approaching years current thrilling alternatives for IFFR Professional to innovate and refresh its already spectacular bouquet of occasions and actions,” he added.
“Transferring nimbly in direct response to the complicated wants of native and world filmmaking communities has been a defining hallmark of IFFR Professional, because the inception of CineMart over 4 a long time in the past and made it the market-defining mannequin for co manufacturing and undertaking financing markets around the globe in the present day. This DNA for change knowledgeable by a profound connection to film-makers; administrators, writers, producers, will proceed because it all the time has to underpin the work and drive us ahead.”
Rabarts’ different earlier roles embrace Head of Improvement and Coaching on the NFDC – the Nationwide Movie Improvement Company – in Mumbai, India. Throughout his time there, he has arrange the NFDC LABS, the successor to the NFDC Movie Bazaar Labs, which he had led since 2008.
He’s additionally a member of the advisory board of the TorinoFilmLab, CPH:DOX Lab and Clinik Kathmandu.
Rabarts started his working life as an actor and a dancer, after which he labored in London at organisations together with PolyGram Filmed Leisure and Working Title.
His movie credit embrace Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook, Edina Pintilie’s Berlinale Golden Bear-winning Contact Me Not and Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox.
