Kees Kasander

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“As a producer, you raise the money, develop the script, do everything. Then you hand it over to the director. Sometimes, we spend three to four years developing a film into something that is interesting for the market. You need to be supported for that work, not hated for it.”

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Kees Kasander’s producing career has been dominated by his collaboration with a single filmmaker—the British director Peter Greenaway. Kasander first became aware of Greenaway’s work in the early 1980s and was smitten. The moment of epiphany came when ...

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