Who we are:

photo: Edith Gruson

In 2011 filmmaker Ineke Smits and radiomaker Jeroen Stout joined their knowledge and experience in the Rotterdam based VOF Stout&Smits. We write, direct and produce films and audio productions, and we collaborate on multi-media projects. Our productions can be seen and heard on public broadcasters and are distributed in cinemas, galleries and at international festivals. 

Member of EFA, DDG, EWA and DOCA
Ineke is development producer for Nushi Film Tbilisi - nushifilm.com



Its a wrap! Crew photo Little Man Time and the Troubadour

Coaching and workshops:

We coach international fiction- and documentary projects in all stages. Based on the unique voice of the maker we tailor our coaching to every individual project, while our international expertise and knowledge of local cinema allows us to mediate between filmmakers and their projects on one hand, and the international market on the other. In this way we want to contribute to authentic, personal films for a universal audience.

 coaching&workshops

Along the Border – Workshop for young Dutch and Turkish documentary makers in Nijmegen and Gaziantep

In development/ production:

Photo by Thomas Dworzak - MAGNUM

War Fever/Oorlogsroes - feature documentary
Film essay about international (para)medics, journalists and other volunteers in conflict zones.
Supported by the Dutch Film Fund, Prince Bernhard Culture Fund and VEVAM Fund.

White Noise - feature fiction film
Charlie, a Dutch DJ, is arrested during a police raid on the hippest club of Tbilisi, Georgia. After a night in a police cell, her record case has vanished. Searching for her music, she is drawn into protests that engulf the city, and turn her worldview upside down; what does fight for freedom really mean?

Supported by Dutch Film Fund, DirectorsNLFund, Creative Europe

Cassettepost aan de Maas - audio intervention in public space
Sitting on a bench on the river Maas, you can imagine the steamers of the Holland America Line leaving the port of Rotterdam: smoke dissipates from their chimneys, a ship's horn echoes across the river. All those people who left Rotterdam after WW2 for a new life in Australia, New Zealand or Canada, what would have become of them?
Cassettepost aan de Maas is a pilot project connecting citizens of Rotterdam with the history of their city through voices from the past. 

Supported by Droom en Daad Foundation, Rotterdam

Recent productions:

Little man, time and the troubadour - 108’/  documentary
Visual artist Sipa Labakhua travels through Abkhazia with his object theatre, looking for the soul of his small, unknown homeland. A roadmovie that sheds new light on a highly topical question in a world that is on fire: What is a country?

In march 2022 the film was released in 25 Dutch cinema's.

De Volkskrant:
★★★★☆ ...Smits creates space for reflection, in a film that, despite all the hopelessness, still makes you fall in love with this country – or whatever you should call it.

Het Parool:
A meandering narrative that consistently favors small, personal stories over the larger historical or political story.

De Filmkrant:
... a film that does not draw conclusions but encourages sensible reflection.

Khidi/The bridge - photobook published by MAGNUM
Magnum photographer Thomas Dworzak was embedded with the Georgian NATO troops in Afghanistan and Irak. Along with a fiction screenplay written by Stout&Smits and based on Thomas' memories and stories Khidi /The Bridge mixes photography, film, fiction and documentary. 

magnumphotos 
calvertjournal
ISBN 978-2-9579668-0-6  -  $ 50,00  -  € 55,00  - £ 45,00  
Available at specialized bookstores,
or   e-mail us

Upcoming events:

Ongoing : CultureCaptures
An (online) workshop to develop and produce short films by young filmmakers from Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Mountainous Karabakh. The project is initiated in the framework of the EU4Dialogue project and hosted by the Goethe-Institut Georgia.