SUBMARINE

NETHERLANDS

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FEMKE WOLTING

Founder & Producer

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BRUNO FELIX 

Founder & Producer

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https://submarine.nl/

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Company Profile

With headquarters in Amsterdam and Los Angeles, Submarine is an Emmy award winning production company that develops and produces feature films, scripted series, documentaries, animation and transmedia projects. Submarine has established itself as an innovative company, working across multiple genres and platforms, all with an international focus. It also owns the largest animation studio in The Netherlands. Submarine boasts a roster of award winning films and series made in collaboration with an extensive network of internationally acclaimed creators. The company works across five distinct divisions which feed each other: Scripted, Documentary, Hybrid, Animation (which encompasses the Netherlands’ largest animation studio), and Digital/Podcast (Transmedia). The company’s upcoming projects include original scripted animation series Undone season 2 for Amazon Prime Video, Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10 ½ feature for Netflix which debuts at SXSW 2022, drama series The Kollective, true crime series The Singh Case, and animated feature Coppelia which premiered at Annecy International Animation Festival 2021.

Femke Wolting

Company Highlights

APOLLO 10 1/2: A SPACE AGE CHILDHOOD 2022
Format:            Feature Film

Genre:              Drama
Director:          Richard Linklater
Screenplay:     Richard Linklater

Countries:       Netherlands, United States 
Cast:                Glen Powell, Jack Black, Zachary Levi, Josh Wiggans

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Coproducers/Commissioners: Mike Blizzard, Femke Wolting, Tommy Pallotta, Sandhya Shardanand / Detour

APOLLO 10 ½ is an innovative hybrid of live-action and a combination of hand-drawn and computer-animated imagery. Directed and written by Richard Linklater, the film is set against the backdrop of the 1969 Apollo mission to the moon, and is inspired by Linklater’s childhood in Houston, TX. The film will debut on Netflix in 2022. Linklater used a similar approach in his 2001 movie ‘Waking Life’, which was shot using digital video of live actors and then rotoscoped with artists.

SXSW 2022

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UNDONE: SEASON ONE 2019
Format:            TV Series

Genre:              Adult-Animation Dramedy
Director:          Hisko Hulsing
Screenplay:     Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Kate Purdy
Cast:                Rosa Salazar, Bob Odenkirk 

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Coproducers/Commisssioners: Noel Bright, Steven A. Cohen, Tommy Pallotta / Tornante Company, Submarine, Minnow Mountain

Undone is a half-hour genre-bending animation series that explores the elastic nature of reality through its central character, Alma (Rosa Salazar), a 28 year-old assistant at a kindergarten school living in San Antonio, Texas. After getting into a near fatal car accident, she discovers she has a new relationship with time and uses her ability to uncover the truth about the death of her father (Bob Odenkirk) during her much younger years. 

Nominated for Breakthrough Series (Shortform) - Gotham Independent Film Awards,2019, Best Animated Series - Critics Choice Awards, 2019, Best General Audience Animated Television/Broadcast Production - Annie Awards, 2020

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BELLINGCAT: TRUTH IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD 2018
Format:            Documentary

Genre:              Documentary
Director:          Hans Pool
Screenplay:     Hans Pool
Cast:                Eliot Higgins, Jay Rosen, Claire Wardle

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Coproducers/Commissioners:  VPRO

Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World explores the promise of open source investigation, taking viewers inside the exclusive world of the "citizen investigative journalist" collective known as Bellingcat.

Winner: Best Documentary - Emmy Awards 2019, Winner: Best Documentary - Richard Harris International Film Festival, 2019 Nominated for: Best Film - Docudays UA International Documentary Human Rights Film Festival, 2019, Most Valuable Documentary of the Year - Cinema For Peace Awards, 2019, Checkpoints Awards - Bergen International Film Festival, 2019