Floor Houwink ten Cate (1987) is a transdisciplinary theater maker, director and writer. Her work is a mix between performance, music theater and cinema. With a background in film, she creates portraits that expose intimate, unspoken aspects of life, such as domestic violence and the fear of dying in a war zone. Her work is …
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Nohaila Gamah
Nohaila is a director and screenwriter with a background in documentary filmmaking. She studied film, with a keen interest in sociology, at the Liberal Arts and Sciences University College in Amsterdam. Her debut short film, Emotional Girl, was selected for the Debut Competition at the Nederlands Film Festival in 2022 and screened at international film festivals. …
Eché Janga
Eché Janga is a talented director, who has proved himself with an impressive portfolio. His new feature film Killabees is in post-production and up next he will film the high-end dramaseries Bloedkoraal. Eché has won several awards, including the prestigious Golden Calf Award for Best Film for his third feature film Buladó. The film was …
Noël Loozen
Noël is an all-round director. His short film The Hornhunter (2014) was featured on Nowness, and his short Spoetnik (2015) premiered at the Berlinale festival, where it was nominated for a Kristal Beer Award. The shorts Botanica and Limburgia both premiered in 2017 and were chosen to compete at the Dutch Film Festival the same …
Ayla Çekin Satijn
Ayla is an actress and director. She is a Turkish queer woman and feels a great responsibility for representation of progressive roles for women. She stars as Maya in the series ANNE+, available on Netflix, and can be seen in series such as The F-Word, Deep Shit and Dirty Lines, the last of which also …
Isis Cabolet
Isis Mihrimah Cabolet co-wrote Dit is geen kerstfilm (100%) with Lotte Tabbers and they won a Golden Calf Award for best screenplay at the Dutch Film Festival Utrecht 2024. She graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Maastricht in 2011. She played in productions from Theater Group Amsterdam, Suburbia, Oostpool and Hartenjagers, but also …
Aaron Rookus
Aaron graduated from the Utrecht school of Arts in 2008, after which he studied Film Science at the University of Amsterdam. His graduation film I Wish I Could Share The Happiness Of Being Alone With Someone Else (2008) won several awards, as well as his debut short Wednesdays, released in 2012. After several more shorts, …
Hetty de Kruijf
Hetty graduated as film director from the Netherlands Film Academy in 2015. Her graduation film, Nighthaven, won several awards and screened at international film festivals. In 2017 she conceptualized and directed the film, Jungle (2017), which was nominated for the Best Television Drama Award and won the Best Actor Award, at the Golden Calf Competition …
Valerie Bisscheroux
Valerie Bisscheroux graduated as a producer at The Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam. They focus on positive, nuanced representation of LGBTQ+ characters and storylines in films and series, foregrounding empowering stories about women and queer people in search of their identity and expression. Valerie made their directorial debut with the coming-of-age queer series ANNE+, currently …