about me
I am a dutch filmmaker of short films, documentaries and experimental video art. Some of my work has been screened at:

Ascona Film Festival in Switzerland, International Film Poetry Festival in Athens, Kunsten Festival Watou in Belgium, London Poetry Systems, Northern Film Festival in Holland, North Light Arts Film Festival in Scotland, Ó Bhéal IndieCork Film Festival in Ireland, Sochi International Winter Festival of Arts, in Russia, Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.

awards
IT LESTE LJIPAAI - THE LAST LAPWING EGG
Official participation International Film Poetry Festival 2013 in Athens Greece voidnetwork.blogspot.nl/2013/12/international-film-poetry-festival-2.html
Official selection Northern Film Festival 2013 'New Northern Harvest' noordelijkfilmfestival.nl
Official selection O Bheal IndieCork International Poetry-Film Competition 2013, Ireland obheal.ie indiecork.com
Screened at the North Light Arts Film Poem Festival 2013 festival, Dunbar Scotland northlightarts.co.uk/filmpoem
Featured on friesfilmarchief.nl/producties/gedichtenclips/jeugd
Featured on movingpoems.com/filmmaker/richard-van-der-laan

FOLA DJEMBE - Portrait of a Djembe drum
First prize onvogelpop.nl in August 2013
Featured on House Of Shorts
Featured on kin-o.org as short film of the month March 2013.

IT NOARDERLÂN - The Northern Land :
Official selection Northern Film Festival 2013 'New Northern Harvest' noordelijkfilmfestival.nl
Screened on craftanddesign.com/events/bokeh-yeah-in-association-with-comma-film-present-timeline-a-poetry-film-event
Screened at the North Light Arts Film Poem Festival 2013 northlightarts.co.uk/filmpoem
Official selection Ascona Film Festival 2013 asconafilmfestival.org/2013/02/12/official-selection-ascona-film-festival-2013
Featured on connotationpress.com/video-poetry/1872-the-third-form-with-erica-goss-may-2013
Featured on LondonPoetrySystems.com as August's 2012 video poem.
Featured on friesfilmarchief.nl

DIRTY CASH : First prize QuickFlick festival Amsterdam (15.07.2012), Interview VPRO Dorst magazine.

MOANNE FAN IT FRYSKE BOOK: Second prize short film Frisian literature festival Moanne fan it Fryske book (2012).