{"id":33204,"date":"2026-03-17T14:06:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/?post_type=expert&#038;p=33204"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:20:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T10:20:03","slug":"joost-van-den-bosch","status":"publish","type":"expert","link":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/en\/expert\/joost-van-den-bosch\/","title":{"rendered":"Joost van den Bosch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Directors Joost van den Bosch (1980) and Erik Verkerk (1984) possess a wealth of experience with productions for (young) children, and with their Rotterdam-based animation studio Ka-Ching Cartoons, they have realized several award-winning productions, including <em>George &amp; Paul<\/em> (2017) and <em>Inkt<\/em> (2021), which have been screened at festivals such as Clermont Ferrand, Annecy, London, and Toronto. Additionally, they are active as producers, mostly for their own productions, but sometimes also as co-producers, for instance for the Oscar-nominated <em>Beautiful Men<\/em>\u00a0(2023).<\/p>\n<p>Joost and Erik met during their animation studies at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, graduating cum laude with a joint project. After their studies, they went to work in Ireland for a year at the prestigious Cartoon Saloon. Upon returning to Rotterdam in 2007, they started their own studio, Ka-Ching Cartoons They soon developed their own formats for series such as <em>George &amp; Paul<\/em> and <em>The 3D-Machine<\/em>, but also created and directed series for the Efteling, such as <em>De Grobbebollen Maken Lol<\/em> and <em>De Lummels<\/em>. Subsequently, their focus shifted to feature films, and they directed the very first animated TV movie, <em>De Tand des Tijds<\/em>, and the feature film <em>Urbanus de Vuilnisheld.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 2024, two feature films of<em> Dikkie Dik<\/em> were released in cinemas, and both were a great success. Currently, they alternate feature films with short films and series, and are working on the third <em>Dikkie Dik<\/em> film, because they are far from tired of this cat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33203,"template":"","jaar":[],"class_list":["post-33204","expert","type-expert","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expert\/33204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expert"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/expert"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jaar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jaar?post=33204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}