Submarine

Submarine is an Amsterdam-founded film, television, animation and transmedia production company established in 2000 by Bruno Felix and Femke Wolting. The studio develops and produces scripted features and series, documentaries, animation, hybrid work and digital storytelling for international audiences.

Its production structure spans Scripted, Hybrid, Animation, Documentary, and Digital/Podcast. Submarine works across hand-drawn and cut-out 2D animation, CGI, rotoscoping, live-action/animation hybrids, stop-motion, visual effects and post-production. Its animation and VFX pipeline uses tools including TVPaint, Toon Boom Harmony, Maya, Blender, Nuke and Unreal Engine, alongside custom AI integrations.

Production and co-production

The company combines creative production with international co-production, financing and incentive packaging. Its Netherlands and Belgium operations support projects using the Netherlands Film Production Incentive and the Belgian Tax Shelter, serving productions across film, television, streaming, advertising and branded content.

Selected work

Submarine’s screen credits include the rotoscoped Amazon Prime series Undone, Richard Linklater’s Netflix feature Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood, They Shot the Piano Player, Fox and Hare Save the Forest, The Sandman: A Dream of a Thousand Cats, Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, Coppelia and The WellieWishers.

Its nonfiction work includes Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World, Last Hijack, Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press, American Jail and More Human Than Human. Scripted productions include The Kollective, Safe Harbor and the Netflix true-crime series Toos.

Mediawan Group acquired a majority stake in Submarine in April 2023. Submarine continues to operate as an active studio within Mediawan Pictures and Mediawan Kids & Family, with Felix and Wolting continuing as Managing Directors and Co-CEOs.