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.
