"Producing premier content with international appeal for over two decades."

With headquarters in Amsterdam, Los Angeles and London, Submarine is an award-winning production company that develops and produces feature films, scripted series, documentaries, animation and transmedia projects. Submarine has established itself as an innovative company, bringing together established and emerging international filmmakers and creators from Europe and the US to produce content with true international appeal for over two decades.

The company works across five distinct divisions which feed each other: Scripted, Documentary, Hybrid, Animation (which encompasses the Netherlands’ largest animation studio), and Digital/Podcast (Transmedia).

Studio Projects:

Dog Days:
A young man clings to the last remaining piece of his relationship: his ex girlfriend’s beloved sausage dog. At first his inability to let go helps him cope with his broken heart, while creating havoc in the city. But this takes a turn when the sausage dog starts to alienate him from the rest of the world.

Where is Anne Frank:
Kitty, the imaginairy friend of Anne, is desperate to prove that her bestfriend is still alive. Kitty is a child of today, she’s wild, smart, tough, nervy,unfettered; she flees the Anne Frank House, steals the diary and sets out on the most difficult journey of all: discovering Anne’s fate after she and her family were caught by the Gestapo.

They Shot The Piano Player:
The new film by Oscar nominated directors Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal. A New York music journalist (Jeff Goldblum) goes on a quest to uncover the truth behind the tragic disappearance of young Brazilian piano virtuoso Tenorio Jr. A celebratory origin story of the world-renowned Latino musical movement Bossa Nova, They Shot The Piano Player captures a fleeting time bursting with creative freedom at a turning point in Latin American history in the 60s and 70s, just before the continent was engulfed by totalitarian regimes. The mystery behind Tenorio’s tragic fate, and the enduring quality of his music leads us on a journey of discovery, featuring a who’s who of the best of Brazilian musicians who knew him: João Gilberto, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Vinicius de Moraes.

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