06/06/2025
After more than two years in production, the feature film KIND is now making its way to cinemas and festivals, starring Vincent van der Valk, Noortje Herlaar and Tamar van den Dop.
The sound journey for this film took us off the beaten track—it challenged us creatively and brought out some of our most resourceful work. Now that KIND is wrapped, we’re quietly proud—but also reminded how much we love diving into these kind of big, personal film projects.
We’re grateful to director Jan Verdijk for a sharp, honest, and inspiring collaboration. If you’re able to laugh, argue, be crass, demanding, and honest with each other during a marathon like this, you know you’ve entered a new level of trust.
Jan stayed, as always, on creative course—something that can’t be lauded enough. Producer Daniel Dow (DPPLR) steered this ship with heart. Editor Joshua Menco brought structure and soul. And composer Koen van de Wardt delivered a score that’s tantalising, eerie & bold. Not to mention Noël Schoolderman—whose stylised work gave us visual texture to match and writer Johan Paul de Vrijer for letting us soundify his storylines.
The meticulous production sound of colleague Gijs Domen delivered, inspired and elevated our sound design process—and kept our ADR sessions to a minimum (a rare and welcome situation).
On the post-sound side we brought in a small but versatile sound team: a dedicated foley crew from Foley Art Studio in Kiev, Kirill Den Outer as in-house sound effects editor, and Lennart Kleinen & Alan van Ramshorst on sound design, dialog editing, and re-recording mix. We topped the mix off at Posta-Vermaas, where Max van den Oever helped us tremendously during the short theatrical mastering round in their big mixing stage—unconventional, we know, but so was the whole project.
Can’t thank all the people above and all the other cast & crew enough. Excited to see—and hear—KIND out in the world soon.
For now, check out the trailer, edited by Angelo Raaijmakers.
