Studio Ruba is an Amsterdam based boutique production company founded in 2019 by producers Maarten van der Ven and Layla Meijman. With a deep faith in the power of collaboration, they focus on developing and producing cinematographic films, creative documentaries and high-end series with a select group of filmmakers. Their goal is to move, excite and broaden audiences' perspectives with innovative stories.

This year, their coming-of-age road film KIDDO by Zara Dwinger had its world premiere at the 73rd edition of the Berlinale, was nominated six times at the Dutch Academy Awards including for Best Film, and picked up two awards (Best Sound Design, Best Montage). Dwight Fagbamila's feature film FEMI premiered at the Netherlands Film Festival in 2022 and was nominated for a Dutch Academy Award for best actor. Internationally, the film had its world premiere at Warsaw IFF.

At this moment, the mosaic film THE IDYLL by Aaron Rookus is being shot, a co-production between Flanders (Polar Bear) and Estonia (Allfilm) and came about with support from the Netherlands Film Fund, Netherlands Production Incentive, BNNVARA, CoBO Fund, Creative Europe Media, Estonian Film Institute, Flemish Audiovisual Fund and Belgium tax shelter. In addition, filming will start on the first minority co-production XENOS a.k.a MEN IN THE SUN by Mahdi Fleifel, which was supported under HBF+NFF. As part of KOOLHOVEN PRESENTEERT, Ruba is producing Mila van der Linden's mid-length film MEMORY DEALERS, which will be broadcast from February 2024.

In 2020, Ruba released the successful short films A HOLIDAY FROM MOURNING by Zara Dwinger and RE-ENTRY by Ben Brand. In 2021, as part of series ONZE STRAAT II, two mid-length television films were released: THE GIRL WHO WAS CURSED (Slamdance) by Zara Dwinger and SAVE IT by Amira Duynhouwer. The short hybrid documentary HENK by Sarah Blok & Lisa Konno recently aired on national television. Prior to the founding of Ruba, Layla and Maarten gained years of experience producing - and sometimes line producing - award winning feature films, shorts and documentaries such as TAKE ME SOMEWHERE NICE (2019) (Rotterdam IFF), BOY MEETS GUN (Busan) (2019) WATERBOYS (2016), and A GOAT FOR A VOTE (2014).