Frans J. Afman

Frans J. Afman joined N.V. Slavenburg's Bank Rotterdam in 1967. In 1969 he received an education in International Banking at the First National Bank of Chicago in Chicago and New York. At that time First Chicago was a 20 % shareholder in N.V. Slavenburg's Bank. In 1972 he became Manager of the International Banking Division of Slavenburg's Bank and as such he was also responsible for the Corporate Banking Division and the liaison with First National Bank of Chicago. At the same time he initiated and developed the Entertainment Business Division of Slavenburg's Bank. In 1981 N.V. Slavenburg's Bank was taken over by Credit Lyonnais and in 1983 renamed: Credit Lyonnais Bank Nederland N.V. Mr. Afman was Assistant General Manager and Head of the Entertainment Business Division of Credit Lyonnais Bank Nederland N.V., headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, until July 1, 1988, when he entered into a non-exclusive consultancy agreement with the Board of the Bank, which expired July 1, 1991. On September 1, 1991, Mr. Afman joined International Creative Management in Los Angeles as Managing Director of the newly formed Financial Services Department. In April 1993 he became an independent financial consultant. Mr. Afman has worked with well known film producers like Dino De Laurentiis and Alexander Salkind, as well as with major independent motion picture production companies such as The Cannon Group (until 1987), Hemdale Film Corporation, Carolco Pictures Inc., Castle Rock, Nelson Entertainment, Imagine Films, Gladden Entertainment Corporation, Transworld Entertainment (until 1988), Merchant Ivory Productions, Neue Constantin, Morgan Creek, Largo Entertainment, LIVE Entertainment and Cinergi Productions. He has been instrumental in financing film projects such as "Three Days Of The Condor", "King Kong", "Superman II and III", "Terminator I and II", "Rambo II and III", "Platoon","Hoosiers", "The Name Of The Rose", "A Room With A View", "When Harry Met Sally", "The Fabulous Baker Boys", "Driving Miss Daisy", "Total Recall" and "Dances With Wolves". Mr. Afman has been invited numerous times to speak on seminars and panels (Holland Promotion - Los Angeles November 1988, American Film Market - Los Angeles February 1990, Munich Film Festival - Munich June 1988, Screen Production Association of Australia Conference - New South Wales November 1990, American Film Market - Los Angeles February 1991, Media Business School - Copenhagen 1992). He was keynote speaker during the Cannes Film Festival 1986 (International Bar Association), Tokyo Film Festival (September 1987), Cinetex, Las Vegas (September 1989) and American Film Market 1992 Opening Speech. He obtained a law degree from the University of Amsterdam and he was an active reserve major in the Cavalry of the Netherlands Army until December 31, 1988. In 1996 he was elected as Chairman of the Netherlands Film Festival. He has also been an advisor to the Media Business School in Madrid as well as the Maurits Binger Institute in Amsterdam. In September 2007 Frans Afman was Knighted by the Queen of the Netherlands.