There is another world, but it is inside this one

— Paul Éluard

This is one of my all-time favorite quotes. Most of the time, the life you live, the things you do, the people you know, seem to be the only truth. This quote reminds me that in fact it’s not and that there are so many different ways of living and experiencing life.

It also reminds me of why it is so great to be a documentary filmmaker, having the fortune of walking into someone else’s life and meeting people I would have otherwise never met.

I started making short fiction films in high school and later on during my Media and Entertainment studies I made my first documentary Out of Love a film about domestic violence amongst men. With this film I got accepted at the National Dutch Film Academy where I graduated in 2015. My graduation film Allez,Viens! is a coming-of-age story about a community consisting of nine young woman. My debut film Scenes with My Father premiered at IDFA 2022 in the ‘Envision Competition’ and was chosen ‘Best Documentary’ at the Trieste Film Festival.

Currently I am working on a short experimental film The Washing Waltz and also on a long hybrid documentary An Impossible Hero.

Next to working on my personal film projects I’m teaching film and I coach other filmmakers.