THE SOUTH HOLLAND TRILOGY
Three cities.
Three killers.
Three daring young women who defy the odds.​​​​
From the mind of writer-director Hilina Da Costa Gomez and producer Patrick Thompson, we bring you a suspenseful exploration of three of the pressing societal issues of our time.
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This is a call for collaborative partners for a new take on the Murder Mystery.
We are currently in the development stage for a trilogy of female driven murder mystery films films set in the Southern Province of the Netherlands, each exploring one of the pressing contemporary issues prevalent throughout an ever-changing Europe - media, migration, gender and of course crime.
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We are seeking:
International co-producers and sales agents with experience in socially conscious storytelling, crime dramas or murder mysteries.
What Makes This Project Unique:
Timely exploration of pressing social challenges
Fresh, female-driven narratives
Rich, authentic Southern Netherlands backdrop
Potential for international festival circuit and critical acclaim
Emerging storytelling talent with a bold creative vision
A Slate Package for content hungry platforms
Please read more about our films below. If you recognize the potential in these timely, thought-provoking stories and would like to be part of the project in its early phase, please send us a message! We look forward to hearing from you!
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Rotterdam Social
Adriana von Wees, an idealistic young influencer and budding tabloid journalist, scores a dream job at Junk Food News, a digital media giant infamous for its celebrity exposés, hoping to add her own positive spin to pop-culture reporting.
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But when a vengeful killer starts targeting the company’s top reporters whose past exposé led to the death of the beloved actress Yara Vos, Adriana starts to suspect that there's more to the Vos story than the company has let on. As journalistic ambitions clash against morality, Adriana's investigation into the company’s shady past turns into a fight for her life.
​Rotterdam Social delivers a high-stakes thriller that explores the corruption and cruelty that can lurk in the background of social media and the new-media journalism landscape.
The Killings in Leiden
Burned-out, depressed and running from a past toxic relationship, New-Yorker Sarah Hardy returns to the city of her birth, Leiden, seeking to reinvent herself and pursue her dream of becoming a crime fiction writer.
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After enrolling at the university’s Literature department, Sarah bonds with a trio of fellow Creative Writing students, including Mila, a beautiful, enigmatic woman with her own troubled love history. The pair's intense, borderline-obsessive friendship spirals when the fictional crimes Sarah shares with Mila begin to mirror real murders targeting the men who wronged them. As suspicions across campus mount, Sarah must uncover and expose the truth about her new friends before she becomes the prime suspect in multiple homicides.
​The Killings in Leiden is a gripping tale of betrayal, obsession, and the blurred line between fiction and reality. It offers an exploration of friendship amongst women haunted by past traumas.
Strangers in Marinestad
After her husband’s reckless investments leave the family in financial ruin, Janna van der Meer, a once successful investigative writer turned struggling waitress, decides to rent out her basement studio apartment to John Sleuth, an eccentric but seductive young medical student.
But as the South-Holland region’s latest serial killer, believed to possess medical expertise, claims more victims closer to her home town of Marinestad, Janna begins to have suspicions about her new tenant. While the local police and townspeople eagerly look toward the local migrant and refugee communities hoping to find the killer, it is up to Janna to follow Sleuth’s trail before the town devolves into a hotbed of ethnic tension.
​Strangers in Marinestad is a gripping, atmospheric thriller that explores paranoia, prejudice, and the battle for truth in a town gripped by fear of the other.
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