The start of the first pro forma trial of Mohammed B., the suspect of the murder on Dutch film director Theo van Gogh, starts in the highly secured court in Amsterdam with the nickname ‘The Bunker’. For the reportage program Tagesthemen from the German first… Read More

Portrait of a young Iraqi women living in The Netherlands on the day she votes for the Iraqi elections in Rotterdam. The video material is used for a documentary compiled from footage gathered on the different ‘out of country voting’ locations in the world. For… Read More

After months of absence caused by death threats, the Dutch Somalian politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali arrives back in the Dutch parliament. A huge media hype arises. For reportages for Europamagazin and Weltspiegel from the first German public TV broadcaster ARD need footage from the arrival… Read More

A portrait of a Dutch military veteran before and during the ceremonial funeral service of Prince Bernard. Hundreds of old veterans gather in large sleeping halls in the Feyenoord football statium in Rotterdam the night before the funeral. The next day they veterans have breakfast… Read More

After the death of the Dutch Prince Bernard, the program Morgenmagazin from the German first public TV channel ARD sends Europe correspondent Michael Strempel to the Netherlands to broadcasts ‘live’ about the sad news from the Soestdijk palace in the Dutch town Baarn. For this… Read More

The Europe correspondent Hans Peter Stalder from the Swiss public TV channel Schweizer Fernsehen wants to investigate what happened in The Netherlands, after the brutal murder on the controversial moviemaker and columnist Theo van Gogh for the background reportage program ’10 vor 10’. His main… Read More

After the brutal murder on the controversial film director and columnist Theo van Gogh, the Dutch society is in a shock. Islamic schools and mosques burn down and around the murder site people of all kinds of cultural backgrounds are debating constantly. The background reportage… Read More

On the morning of the 2nd of November, the controversial film director and columnist Theo van Gogh was brutally murdered in the middle of a street in the West of Amsterdam. One of the last projects of Van Gogh was the film Submission, written by… Read More

A British Airways airplane is escorted to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport by Dutch fighter jets after phone calls came in warning for a bomb on the plane. BBC news wants an interview with the Amsterdam airport Schiphol authorities. For this production Featurez did research, set-up and… Read More

More and more city councils in The Netherlands decide to accommodate maladjusted people and asocial families in container on the side of town. These vandalism proof mobile housing units and prefab-apartments usually have two rooms, a kitchen and a bathroom. Forced transfer to these provisional… Read More

It is legal for people suffering from dementia to get euthanasia under very strict conditions. The Dutch board of Attorney Generals decided to stop prosecuting a doctor who helped a patient with Alzheimer disease with suicide. The board stated that Alzheimer itself is not an… Read More

The Dutch organisation Social Consultation on Payments advises to implement nationwide rounding off cash payments at 5 euro cents. This advice follows the results of the Eurocent Rounding Trial, which took place in the city Woerden from 26 April to 6 June 2004. Woerden is… Read More