Crystal Film | |
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Awarded for | Box office achievements |
Country | Netherlands |
Presented by | Netherlands Film Festival Netherlands Film Fund |
First awarded | 21 June 2005 |
Website | http://www.kristallenfilm.nl/ |
The Crystal Film (Dutch : Kristallen Film) is a film award recognising domestic box office achievements in the Netherlands. The Crystal Film is awarded to documentary films from the Netherlands once they have sold 10,000 tickets.
The award is an initiative of the Netherlands Film Festival and the Netherlands Film Fund to increase media attention for Dutch documentary films, in addition to the existing Golden Film and Platinum Film for Dutch films in general. [1] They announced the introduction of the Crystal Film on 28 April 2005. [2] The first Crystal Film was awarded on 21 June 2005 to Shape of the Moon (2004). Since its introduction, the Crystal Film has been awarded to twelve films. [lower-alpha 1]
Crystal Film for 10,000 tickets sold | ||||
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Year | # | Film | Release date | Crystal Film |
2005 | 1 | Shape of the Moon | 6 January 2005 [3] | 21 June 2005 [4] |
2 | Souls of Naples | 18 August 2005 [5] | 21 December 2005 [5] | |
2006 | 3 | Buddha's Lost Children | 7 September 2006 [6] | 25 September 2006 [7] |
4 | Forever | 12 October 2006 [8] | 23 November 2006 [9] | |
2007 | 5 | 4 Elements | 30 November 2006 [10] | 10 January 2007 [11] |
6 | Goud | 4 October 2007 [12] | 17 October 2007 [13] | |
2008 | 7 | El ovido | 23 October 2008 | 11 December 2008 [14] |
2009 | 8 | Contractpensions - Djangan loepah! | 18 January 2008 | 29 September 2009 [15] |
2010 | 9 | Janine | 7 October 2010 | 16 November 2010 [16] |
2011 | 10 | Position Among the Stars | 18 November 2010 | 22 April 2011 [17] |
11 | Ouwehoeren | 1 December 2011 | 30 December 2011 [18] | |
2012 | 12 | Over canto | 8 December 2011 | 12 February 2012 [19] |
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