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Idse Grotenhuis – Founding Partner, Managing Director and Producer

Idse Grotenhuis is a Founder, Managing Director and Producer at ReadySet Studios. A creative entrepreneur, Grotenhuis brings more than 30 years of experience as an independent producer and director to his current role. Grotenhuis began his career as a director and expanded his expertise over the years to creative production, managing projects through to the finishing stages of production  His credits include the acclaimed television drama series “Turbulent Skies,” “Towers of Power,” “Divorce,” “Golden Mountains,” as well as the longest-running daily soap opera in the Netherlands, “Good Times Bad Times.”

In 2022, in response to the rapidly changing media landscape in the Netherlands and globally, Grotenhuis launched Amsterdam-based ReadySet Studios, the first virtual production studio in the Netherlands to introduce LED walls and game engine technology to create in-camera VFX techniques that offer the industry at large powerful creative and green production technology advantages. Under his direction, the studio benefits from his production, logistical and financial expertise to deliver makers with the latest virtual production innovation and sustainability standards that reduce the impact of television and film production on the environment.

Grotenhuis is a member of the Dutch Directors Guild (DDG).

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Florian Legters – Founding Partner and Chief Production Designer 

Florian Legters is a founding partner and chief production designer at ReadySet Studios.

Throughout his career, spanning more than two decades, Legters has contributed production design expertise to more than 20 renowned Dutch film and television productions, including ‘Klem’ ‘Luizenmoeder’ and ‘Het Gouden Uur’. Legters’ production designs for ‘Life According to Nino’ earned him a Golden Calf nomination at the esteemed Netherlands Film Festival, while five television commercials featuring his work have been honored with Golden Loekie awards — the most prestigious audience awards for commercials and television series in The Netherlands.

As chief production designer at ReadySet Studios, Legters is leveraging his extensive professional experience and esteemed reputation in traditional production design to solve creative challenges in the virtual production milieu, especially those related to locations that are hard to produce and sets too expensive to build. He is especially committed to the studio’s mission to create a sustainable filmmaking environment. In support of this effort, Legters is developing next-gen set-building processes and techniques using less harmful and less common construction materials and designing modular re-usable set pieces.

Legters is a board member of the Dutch Academy For Film, sharing his expertise and vast network to help professionalize the Dutch media industry.

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Dennis Kleyn, NVX – Founding Partner and VP/VFX producer

Dennis Kleyn is founder and VP/VFX producer at ReadySet Studios. Kleyn is a recognized film industry veteran and technology innovator. In 2004 he founded Planet X, where he is presently CEO, today among the most prominent studios in the Netherlands, providing creative visual effects for top-end feature film and television productions with a dedicated team of more than twenty VFX artists. Notable projects include Borgman (Cannes Selection 2013), Dragon Girl (winner Amanda Award 2021), Dirty Lines (Netflix), Close (Grand Prix Cannes 2022, Academy Award nominee), and Rampvlucht (winner Dutch Golden Calf)

In 2012, under Kleyn’s direction, Planet X Technologies, in conjunction with creative technology company Unwind, released Setellite, the most used on-set VFX data organizing and productivity solution. Setellite is used by VFX professionals worldwide working for clients such as Netflix, Apple TV+, HBO Max, Amazon Studios, AMC, Paramount +, and many others.

In March 2022, on behalf of Planet X Technologies, Kleyn co-founded ReadySet Studios, a new virtual production studio in Amsterdam. ReadySet welcomes content creators from around the globe to make use of its state-of-the-art virtual production facilities to realize outstanding in-camera VFX.

Kleyn is actively involved in the Dutch VFX community as chairman of the Dutch VFX Association (NVX), which he co-founded in 2014, and board member for the NPA, the Netherlands Post production Alliance. He is also a regular contributor to the post-production training programs organized by APostLab, which collaborates with industry-leading organizations such as Netflix to provide high-end international workshops.

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Nils Pauwels – Partner and Director of Virtual Production at ReadySet Studios

Over the past 18 years, Pauwels earned a reputation as one of Europe’s leading technical experts with extensive experience in film, broadcast, AV and Virtual Production (VP), In-Camera VFX (ICVFX), and immersive technologies. In his current role, as Director of Virtual Production, Pauwels coordinates shoots with feature film, television, commercial, and advertising clients and provides technical advice from creative content to lighting technology. He also oversees the development and implementation of new technology and manages daily business operations.

Before co-founding ReadySet Studios, Pauwels worked as a senior international sales rep in LED and audiovisual technology setting up some of the most prominent LED stages in studios worldwide for film and television, live events, sports, and broadcast productions. Notably, he was involved with VFX studio Framestore building lightbox, a predecessor to current VP/ICVFX technologies, used to create the convincing VFX for 2013’s Academy Award-winning sci-fi thriller, Gravity.

Pauwels is also credited for his  involvement in creating, designing, and building stages for Dark Bay in Studio Babelsberg and the largest LED volume in Europe at legendary Cinecittà Studios in Rome.

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Chris Licher – Partner and CFO

Chris is an experienced finance professional. Licher has over thirty years of experience in the financial world and has a rich entertainment history, having worked at companies such as Endemol Shine Group, Warner Bros. International, and EMG (United).

In addition to his entertainment experience, Chris is also socially engaged, thanks to his various board positions in the sports world. He is also actively involved in the sustainable energy issue for current and especially future generations.

It is his passion for finance, entertainment, and sustainability that make him a perfect fit for ReadySet Studios.

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