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Film education

Netherlands Film Academy

Documentary Directing · 2020–present

I teach research, filming and editing, and supervise documentary projects. In Film & Ethics, students work through concrete decisions about filming, consent and the people in their films.

Film Academy profile ↗

University of Amsterdam

Guest teaching · Media Studies

Labs & mentoring

I work with filmmakers through individual project consultations, practical filmmaking exercises and group discussions. We look for a project’s central tension, point of view and cinematic form, and test those choices against the material. Questions of authorship and ethics are part of these conversations.

DOCvillage · CineSud

Documentary coach · 2026
Sittard · 5–9 October 2026

Programme ↗

DocuLab 10 voor 50 · The Back Lot, Suriname

Documentary coach · 2023

DocuLab 8 voor 40 · The Back Lot / Netherlands Film Academy, Suriname

Documentary coach · 2015–2016

IDFAcademy Summer School

Tutor

Kids & Docs

Coach / tutor

Mediafonds Transmedia Masterclass

Coach

Editorial & commissioning

VPRO Youth

Commissioning Editor · 2017–January 2020

VPRO / Commissioning editor

Talking Heads

I was a commissioning editor at VPRO. Talking Heads brings children into conversation with hairdresser Marko Suds as he cuts their hair. They talk about worries, friendship, love and growing up.

Series directed by Menno Otten, produced by Keplerfilm for VPRO.

The series won the Prix Jeunesse International in 2020 and the Rose d’Or for Children and Youth in 2022.

Keplerfilm ↗ / Rose d’Or ↗

Advisory

NPO Fund

Adviser · Fiction, Youth and Talent

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Mediafonds

Adviser and committee member · 2014–2016

Assessment of documentary, youth and digital culture projects.

A workshop or project session

Tell me who is taking part, what they are making and how much time is available. A session can focus on research, interviewing, scenes, an edit or the ethical decisions within a project.

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