About

Headquartered in Amsterdam with offices in Antwerp, London & LA, submarine is an Emmy award-winning production company that develops and produces feature films, scripted series, documentaries, animation, and transmedia projects. Since 2023, Submarine is proud to have become a part of the Mediawan Group.

Submarine has established itself as an innovative company, working across multiple genres and platforms, all with an international focus. It operates the largest animation studio in The Netherlands, and as of 2024 also runs a studio in Antwerp. Submarine boasts a roster of award-winning films and series made in collaboration with an extensive network of internationally acclaimed creators.

The company has produced many acclaimed films such as Peter Greenaway’s Eisenstein in Guanajuato that premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2015, the Emmy Award-winning feature Last Hijack, Oscar-winning director Roger Ross Williams’ documentary American Jail for CNN and the BBC and the Netflix Original Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press that premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2017. Submarine’s documentary Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World which covers the rise of the first ever citizen-journalist collective won an Emmy for best feature documentary in 2019.

Upcoming documentary projects include Sobibor: Escape from History, a feature doc and 3-part series about the unique story of a group of Jewish prisoners who escaped from Sobibor in 1943, and the trauma that still lingers inside their descendants; Love-22-Love, an archival documentary about the dark side of the psyche, where artist Jeroen Kooijmans takes the viewer on a journey of despair, art and love; Club Heaven, an experiential documentary exploring both capitalism and religion by showcasing a materialistic ritual inside one of China’s nightclubs; and lastly, the activist documentary Do Better!, which explores what it means to grow up in a time marked by mounting systemic crises.

The company has produced animated series such as the Emmy-nominated Doopie, The Wellie Wishers for Amazon Prime, and feature film Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, which won the jury award at Annecy Festival in 2019. Submarine continued its success with two seasons of the Amazon Prime series Undone from Bojack Horseman creators Kate Purdy and Raphael Bob Waksberg, Richard Linklater’s film for Netflix, Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood, and animated bonus episode of the Netflix Sandman series titled A Dream of a Thousand Cats. Last year, the company released the animated features They Shot the Piano Player, starring Jeff Goldblum, and Fox and Hare Save the Forest directed by Mascha Halberstad, which premiered at Berlinale.

Upcoming animation projects include Pol the Pirate Mouse, a character-driven 3D animated preschool series about Pol who explores a new forest home with her very own crew of pirates; Little Charlie, a 2D animated preschool series for commissioning broadcasters ZDF, RAI and Videoland, about the exciting world of the small rabbit Charlie and his family, pets and friends, based on the famous book series Karlchen by renowned German author Rotraut Susanne Berner.

Submarine’s scripted team wrapped production in 2024 on both journalism thriller series The Kollective by ZeroZeroZero showrunner Leonardo Fasoli and Safe Harbor, a crime drama from Ozark co-creator Mark Williams – The Netherlands’ highest budget series to date. Both were broadcast internationally in 2025. In 2026 Submarine completed filming on true crime series Toos for Netflix, the series’ will make it’s debut on the platform in winter 2026.

Upcoming scripted projects include George Blake, a Cold War spy drama from the perspective of the UK’s most prolific double agent directed by Kevin Macdonald and written by David Harrower; Our Other Lives, a heist series about two married fugitives being dragged back into a cutthroat life of crime behind their children’s backs directed by Philipp Kadelbach; Hitler’s Horses, a darkly comic, adventure-filled drama about “The Indiana Jones of the Art World”, art detective Arthur Brand, based on his acclaimed book. Projects are also in development with Wildside, Ronan Bennett, 101 Studios and BBC Film.