Sandra Den Hamer, a name well known to any South Africans who attended the co-production market at the now defunct Sithengi Film & TV Market, is to run the eye Film Institute Netherlands, formerly known as The Netherlands Film Sector.
eye Film Institute Netherlands is the umbrella organisation of the local Institute for Film Education, Holland Film, Filmmuseum and Filmbank (a distributor of local experimental works).
Den Hamer, who is a former director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam and was most recently the director of Filmmuseum, will now lead a 165-strong staff complement.
Cineuropa reports that on eye’s immediate agenda is the coordination of the introduction of digital projection and archiving in Dutch cinemas.
