All Dutch movies and TV series accessible online

An online portal is going to provide access to all Dutch movies and TV series ever produced. To realise this goal, a new organisation has been established recently under the name of Filmotech. The plan was developed and initiated by the Dutch Association for Movie Producers, the Netherlands Institute for Image and Sound and the EYE Movie Institute Netherlands.

At the end of the month, the project will be officially announced during the Netherlands Film Festival. Within the frame of a year, “many thousands of hours worth of material should be posted online,” a spokesperson of Filmotech states on nu.nl. Some time later, all approximately 1200 movies and hundreds of series should be accessible through the portal.

The project is probably unique in the world. Still, a lot needs to be done before the deal is on. No hard and fast deals have been made with rights holders so far. The Filmotech official is confident that this will not be too big an obstacle because of the involvement of the Producers Association. A substantial number of the public broadcasters has also indicated to support the plan.

The prices for watching a movie have been determined already. An older movie will cost one euro to watch, while the newly released ones will cost 5 euros, the same price that movie rental shops charge. No price has been determined yet for episodes of series.