Narrative & Documentary Editing

Here is how this works in practice. We deliver narrative and documentary editing that shapes footage into compelling visual stories, combining story-structure craft with tech precision. Our editors work across scripted narrative and documentary form, building character arcs, dramatic pacing and real truth-telling, and our team sets up editing suites, media running and review workflows in Amsterdam and Hilversum. For documentary, we curate footage with respect for subjects, structure interviews for clarity, and integrate b-roll and archive material — handling format conversion, restoration planning and photo animation.

Here is the breakdown. For narrative, we analyse script structure and dramatic beats, select performance takes and refine scene matching. We work through many review cycles in close partnership with directors, delivering edited cuts that serve the filmmaker's vision and prepare cleanly for color and sound finishing.

Here is the short of it. The Netherlands has one of the world's strongest documentary cultures, anchored by the Global Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, founded in 1988 and the largest documentary festival anywhere, while its feature custom has produced three foreign-language Oscars. Fons Rademakers's 'The Assault', Marleen Gorris's 'Antonia's Line' and Mike van Diem's 'Character'. Edit work supports titles bound for IDFA, the Global Film Festival Rotterdam and the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht. This awards the Golden Calf. The country's documentary post sector is worldwide regarded.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. The Netherlands Film Fund's 35% cash rebates draws shoots to base editing in the country. Our team delivers narrative and documentary edit for feature, broadcast and festival release, in the storytelling custom that has long distinguished Dutch cinema.