Maarten van der Ven
Maarten van der Ven - producer Maarten van der Ven (1981) has a bachelor degree in Film- Television and Theatre Studies (Utrecht University) and finished the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in 2009. He did this producing the films Bingo by Timur Ismailov (18 international festival awards) and Flemish Pride by Thijs Schreuder (winner documentary Wildcard Netherlands Film Fund). Already during his studies Maarten started working at Isabella Films, in a later stage in the role of junior producer. He contributed a.o. to Winter in Wartime by Martin Koolhoven ( shortlist Oscars 2010), The Aviatrix of Kazbek by Ineke Smits, Adrienn Pál by Ágnes Kocsis (Un Certain Regard 2010) and Lena by Christophe van Rompaey (Toronto IFF 2011). VENFILM In 2013 Maarten established VENFILM, a company that wants to work with passionate visual authors , who are eager to tell stories that intend to make a difference for the audience they where created for. VENFILM produced the documentaries When the war ends by director Thijs Schreuder (Best Debut, Netherlands FF 2011) and A goat for a vote by Jeroen van Velzen (nomination Golden Calf Best Documentary 2014) On the fiction side VENFILM produced the shorts Wednesdays (a.o. Best Dutch Short, Go Short 2012), Balance and P by Aaron Rookus, A day off by Wouter Stoter (Golden Calf nomination NFF 2015), Erkhii Mergen or why the marmot doesn't have a thumb by Thessa Meijer (winner Wildcard and Dioraphte Award) In 2016 the company has released its first feature film, Waterboys by Robert Jan Westdijk (60.000 admissions in NL to date) and the shorts Inconvenient comfort by Adam Fillenz and Copyrette by Marc de Leeuw. This year he produced Thessa Meijer debut, a midlength film The Day My House Fell. On the development side it's working on a feature by Aaron Rookus and a world building development for a series named AFSLUIT DIJK. Besides producing Maarten van der Ven also works as a line producer for renowned Dutch companies (ao Quality Time, Tiger competition IFFR 2017 and Peterpanman) and was taking part in the Creative Producers Lab at the Binger Filmlab and the Berlinale Talent Campus.
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Biography from IMDb.
- Producer
- 3 on MovieCove · 19 credits in all
What are Maarten van der Ven's films like?
Across a limited sample of 3 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Survival.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 1 · Earnest 2
A split, not a type: Light 2 · Serious 0 · Dark 1
A split, not a type: Grounded 2 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 1
Gentle 1 · Charged 1 · Intense 1
A split, not a type: Steady 1 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 0
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 2 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 1
Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 0
Casual 1 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 1 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 1
A split, not a type: Resolved 2 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Maarten van der Ven's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 2 of their 3 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (2).
Subscription and free streaming for Maarten van der Ven's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
19 credits, 3 with a MovieCove page.
Sugar (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
Met Oprechte Deelneming(2026)
Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
De originele Karina Beumer (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
To a Land Unknown(2024)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
Idyllic (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Kiddo (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Sisyphus at Work (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Porcelain (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Re \ Entry (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
My Foolish Heart (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Quality Time(2017)
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films
Waterboys (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Copyrette (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
The Datcha (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Arash (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Bingo (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Making of Oorlogswinter (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
Je Moeder (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
The Possessed (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 17 titles, 15 of them dated from 2008 to 2026.
How do Maarten van der Ven's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 57th percentile, the median of all 3; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 51st percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up1
- 50th to 74th2
Shape of the crowd
2 of their 3 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Crowd Pleaser2
- Mixed1
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Maarten van der Ven work with?
People who share at least 2 of Maarten van der Ven's MovieCove titles; Layla Meijman shares the most, 2.
- Layla MeijmanShared titles: Met Oprechte Deelneming (2026), To a Land Unknown (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Layla Meijman