What is TalentScope?
TalentScope is the talent development program for up and coming Dutch directors who’ve made one short film or feature film and are ready for the next step: their first or second feature film! Netherlands Film Fund does not just offer them funding with the TalentScope program, but also a extensive and qualitative coaching trajectory with which the director, alongside the (co)screenwriter and producer, can lay a firm foundation for the further development of a new project. TalentScope is a collaboration between Netherlands Film Fund with filmForward, ACE producers and TorinoFilmLab.
Apply to TalentScope 2025 here before Monday 12 May 2025.
Dates TalentScope 2025
27 & 28 May: Pitch presentations to commission, selection
23-27 June | Week 1: Let’s get started!
July – September: Independent work on scenario
13-17 October | Week 2: Deep Dive
November 2025 – January 2026 – Independent work on project
February 2026 | Week 3: Wrap it up!
Previous years
For the first edition of TalentScope 2024 three teams of makers were selected:
- Boy meets Bot – Victoria Warmerdam & Trent
- The Muffler / De Knalpot – Valerie Bisscheroux, Maud Wiemeijer, Hanna van Vliet and Laura Bouwmeester
- What’s Wrong with Sylvester – Zara Dwinger & Leyla Meijman
Photo: Amie Galbraith