The Hunter’s Son, 2nd feature project by Dutch film maker and script writer Ricky Rijneke has been selected for the sixth edition of the Venice Gap-Financing Market (August 30 – September 1), which takes place during the Venice Film Festival 2019.

The Venice Gap-Financing Market will present 23 narrative features projects from around the world in their final stages of development and funding.

The Hunter’s Son is an international coproduction supported by film funds from different countries: the Netherlands Film Fund, the Icelandic Film Center, the Polish Film Institute and the Flemish Audiovisual Fund.
Recently also Eurimages, the coproduction fund of the Council of Europe decided to support the Dutch majority coproduction.

The film will be produced by Rotterdam Films (NL) in cooperation with Balapolis (PL), Vintage Pictures (IC)

Director Ricky Rijneke was invited for three international Talent Labs: the artistic development program of the Toronto Film Festival (TIFF), the Torino FilmLab and the Sam Spiegel international Film Lab in order to develop the project.

Ricky Rijneke gained international acclaim with her first short Wing, the fish that talked back (Locarno Competition, Leopards of the Future) and her award winning feature debut Silent Ones, for which she brought together a choice selection of prize-winning European talent. This film premiered in Tiger Competition of the IFFR. It won eleven awards out of fifteen nominations in New York, Toronto, Berlin, Los Angeles and other cities.