Huub Bals, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Huub Bals

Dutch film festical director

Date of Birth: 03-Feb-1937

Place of Birth: Utrecht, Netherlands

Date of Death: 13-Jul-1988

Profession: film director

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Hubertus Bernardus "Huub" Bals (February 3, 1937 – July 13, 1988) was the first director and creator of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), formerly named Film International.
IFFR started small in the Calypso cinema and film theatre 't Venster (now Lantaren/Venster) in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in 1972, with only 4500 visitors and 31 films.
In the forthcoming years the film festival expanded gradually under the watchful cinephile eye of Bals to 150.000 visitors and multiple cinemas in 1988 - Bals' last festival - and developed into an annual film event of great international importance, with already more than 350.000 visitors in 2010.
Thanks to Bals many new film countries and continents have been introduced to The Netherlands, among which Russia, China, Taiwan, Africa and Latin-America.
'The masters of the cinema of tomorrow are from the Third World.'