General information On this page, you will find all the necessary general information on the Peloton Pictures film investment project. You can use the links below to surf the text, or read the information chronological. Before the beginning / Executive summary / Film basket / Pluses and minuses / Swim away from the shallow / Where’s the catch? / No post box / Experience: the key to success / Alliances / What’s next? / And... / Experience: the key to succes The management team of Peloton Pictures has a vast network of connections both within the Belgian industry and the international film industry. The Bank and the investors, as well as the Belgian film industry, are best served with a professional, international approach. Peloton Pictures’ main Executive, Ate de Jong, has both produced and directed many commercially successful feature films in the last twenty-five years. Amongst them, Drop Dead Fred, remains one of the biggest US independent blockbusters of the early nineties. Mr. de Jong has been the only Benelux born director to have the honour to direct episodes of the international TV hit series Miami Vice. Ate de Jong was born and raised in a little village in West-Flanders. He lived and worked in Hollywood for eight years, working with companies such as Universal, NBC, PolyGram, United Artists and MGM. He now resides in London where he has lived for the last nine years. European firms for whom he has made films and with whom he has worked are Warner UK, Buena Vista Germany (Disney), Telemunchen, RTL, EndeMol, Working Title and Intermedia. Ate de Jong founded Mulholland Pictures with partners Jeroen Krabbé and Edwin de Vries and was responsible for producing Left Luggage, shot largely in Antwerp, starring Isabella Rossellini, Maximillian Schell and Topol, and The Discovery of Heaven, which was the opening film of the International Gent Film Festival in 2001. In 2001, Mr. de Jong initiated and structured the biggest Dutch film CV ever, brought to the Dutch investors’ market by MeesPierson/Fortis with capital of € 44m.