25.02: Public Talk: Managing Post-production

Wednesday, February 25th, 2026, 16-17:30

Filmhaus Kino am Spittelberg, 1070 Wien
Free entry

Neeltje van der Heijden (The Netherlands) and Niko Remus (Germany) are both Post-production Supervisors, having handled numerous projects of all budget sizes, and organizors of the international training program APostLab. They are experts of the curriculum of the Talent LAB#2; in the course of her workshop for the five teams taking part in the curriculum, they will give a public lecture:

Managing Post-production – focusing on budgets and schedules

Why do we need to take a new look at the way we manage post-production?
And why do we need dedicated people who understand this field to manage this process?

In this talk Neetlje van der Heijden and Niko Remus will explain how to approach projects in planning for post-production, right at the beginning of setting up the budget for the entire project. „Every project is a prototype“ is one of the most used sentences during the APostLab workshops – and this public talk will look at the process of setting up a budget and a schedule to any given project, accounting for ever evolving workflows and upcoming AI challenges.

This Public Talk will be partly in English, partly in German.

APostLab is a training program based in Amsterdam, focusing on training producers and other film professionals in the field of post-production management. With a team of trainers coming from all over Europe, they organize an annual 6-day residential workshop and and bespoke on-demand sessions. The next annual workshop will take place in Vienna in late 2026 (exact dates are to be announced).

Neeltje van der Heijden is a Post-production supervisor and program manager for APostLab. After having worked as a DI producer at an image post facility for nine years, Neeltje decided to start working as a freelancer in 2015. Since becoming a independent post-production supervisor she has managed post-production for more than twenty international co-produced feature films and documentaries and art installations such as “Occupied City” by Steve McQueen (Rijksmuseum, 2025), “Garden of Earthly Delights” (2025) by Morgan Knibbe and “Donkey Days” by Rosanne Pel (Locarno, 2025). Besides her projects, Neeltje has been involved with APostLab since 2013. She became the workshop‘s co-owner in 2025.

Niko Remus is a Post-production supervisor and Head of Studies for APostLab. Niko has a background in film editing and became a freelance Post-Production Supervisor and a workflow consultant in 2006, when the film business was transitioning from analog shooting to a full digital workflow. With his base in Germany, he works on international fiction and documentary films for cinema. His projects include: “Bal – Honey” by Semih Kaplanoglu, “Hannah Arendt” by Margarethe von Trotta, “Only Lovers Left Alive” by Jim Jarmusch, “About Endlessness” by Roy Andersson, “Eleanor & Colette” by Bille August, “Stowaway” by Joe Penna or “Styx” by Wolfgang Fischer. Niko gives lectures at various film schools and has been a trainer for the Torino Film Lab, Rotterdam Lab, Berlinale Talents and Production Value. In 2010 he was part of the first APostLab workshop (then EP2C) and took on the role as Head of Studies for APostLab in 2017, in 2025 he became co-owner of APostLab.

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