Actress Johanna ter Steege to Play Mozarts Sister

Johanna ter Steege agrees to play Mozarts sister in new film on Nannerl Mozart.

(PRWEB) May 4, 2005 -- Dutch actress Johanna ter Steege this week agreed to play Nannerl Mozart, the musically gifted sister of Amadeus Mozart, in the upcoming biographical film, "The Wonder Child."

The film, to be directed by Heinrich Dahms ("My Daughter's Keeper," Miramax 1993) and produced by Peter van Vogelpoels Amsterdam-based Ventus Film, will be filmed on location in the Mozart hometown of Salzburg in early 2006 for a Christmas 2006 release; in time for the Mozart 250 Anniversary. Ter Steege, whose career was launched in the 1988 Dutch film, Spoorloos (George Sluizer), has played leads in a number of successful international films, including the recent "Rembrandt," "Immortal Beloved,"" Vincent & Theo" and opposite Glenn Close in "Paradise Road" (1997, Bruce Beresford).

"The Wonder Child" is the first of three films in the Wunderkind Trilogy on the lives of gifted, 18th century female musicians, including Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn, to be produced by Van Vogelpoel and directed by Dahms. The award-winning screenplays for The Wonder Child and Clara were written by American screenwriters Anthony Zaccaro and Miriam Queensen respectively. "The Wonder Child" also marks the beginning of a strategic partnership between Buzzmedia Network and Ventus Film for the production of up to six films to be directed by Dahms and produced by Ventus over the next four years.

About Ventus Film

Ventus Film is the Netherlands based specialist production company of producers Peter van Vogelpoel and Karin S. de Boer. Peter van Vogelpoel was co-producer of Lars von Triers "Breaking the Waves," "The Idiots," "Wilde Mossels," "Unter Den Palmen," "Perfect Circle," "Rembrandt," "Curfew" and "Haifa." Karin S. de Boer was line producer on "Resistance," "Magonia," "Wilde Mossels," and "Rembrandt."

About Buzzmedia Network

Buzzmedia Network BV (www.buzzmedia.net) is the Netherlands based film development company of Heinrich Dahms (www.dahms.com), director of feature films including "Au Pair" (Miramax 1993). Other Buzzmedia projects include award-winning scripts on Italian artist Caravaggio, and infamous Restoration poet Lord Rochester, titled "Making Miss Barry."

Further formation

Ventus Film: Peter van Vogelpoel, tel: +31-20-6060 773, info@ventusfilm.nl

Buzzmedia Network: Heinrich Dahms, tel: +31-35-772 5225, info@buzzmedia.net

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