COMPANY PROFILE
We love stories with purpose that can empower and inspire future generations through stories with purpose.
Storyhouse was founded in 2013, and has produced over 16 films since. We have worked with all major European broadcasters and our films have been shown and were awarded at major film festivals.
Storyhouse engages in high-profile international co-productions and co-develops, co-finances, supports sales and distribution. We are looking for projects which either have a strong content link with Belgium or which involves key Belgian talent.
Read more about Storyhouse’ future plans in the Business Doc Europe interview with Maarten Schmidt.
Producers biography
Maarten Schmidt founded Storyhouse in 2013, after working in The Netherlands.
He worked in the creative and production department of 30 films, most of which documentaires with one Cannes-selected feature fiction: ‘Blue Bird’. All of which have been broadcast, some with an international theatrical release and some films awarded at major film festivals.
His first 2 productions as a producer: ‘Ne Me Quitte Pas’ and ‘Our City’ premiered at IDFA and were awarded at international film festivals such as Tribeca, Hot Docs, Docaviv, Milano Film Fest, FIFF Namur. His most recent production ‘Breathless’ was broadcasted and distributed internationally and won the prestigious Ensor Academy-award for best Flemish Documentary.
Maarten was the first one to produce a youth documentary in Belgium, ‘Si-G is my Rap Name’, which inspired the local film fund and public youth broadcaster to co-finance 5 youth documentaries each year.
Selected credits
Fien, Jip and Fien (2019) — youth documentary
Thessaloniki IFF, Dok Leipzig, Chicago International Children’s Film Festival
Breathless (2018) — investigative documentary
Flemish Film Industry Award for Best Documentary
Saints (2016) — authors point of view
broadcasted by BBC
International co-productions
How to Steal a Country (2019) — investigative documentary
premiered at IDFA and broadcasted in over 10 countries
Ne me quitte pas (2013) — authors point of view
awarded at Tribeca 2014