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Ilse Hughan

Born in Amsterdam, Ilse Hughan entered cinema through subtitling after studying French and Italian in college. She collaborated in many Dutch fiction films as assistant producer, director and editor. From 1988 to 1992 she distributed independently produced fiction and documentary films at the Amsterdam Cinematheque. For the past 10 years she has been working for the Rotterdam International Film Festival and is a member of the Hubert Bals Fund selection, which supports films from developing countries. Lately she is feeling more and more drawn towards film production, which she considers an intimate form of commitment. She will be the associate producer of Sangre, the new film from Lisandro Alonso (Argentina), whose disarming and original feature debut, La Libertad (2000), received much recognition from various international film festivals and elsewhere. In 1992, Ilse Hughan decided to revive Amsterdam-based Fortuna Films, a company establishes by her grandfather in 1911. Fortuna Films specialized in selling and distributing documentaries from filmmakers such as Heddy Honigmann, Jos de Putter, Andreas Hoessli and Peter Liechti.