Video portraits

Short doc Eigenheim

29 February 2024
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Short documentary on homelessness after detention

Project info:
How can you still feel at home somewhere after years of being detained? ‘Eigenheim’ tells the story of 24-year old April from Amsterdam who ended up on the streets after periods of detention. That life started early. She was 12 years old when she was evicted from home. All she had was a Big Shopper with some personal belongings.

The long road to a new home took her from shelters, the street, sofas at friends’ places, to her own appartment in Amsterdam. Today, her dog is helping April building a new life.

 
Client: Stichting Zwerfjongeren Nederland
 
Media: Video
 
My role: Direction, camera, edit
 
Languages: Dutch

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Company video portraits for Rubio

15 October 2021
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Video portrait series social impact start-ups

Project info: Amsterdam based impact investor Rubio invests in start-ups and scale-ups that want to have a positive impact on the world. In this series of short video portraits the entrepreneurs tell about their personal motivations, the struggles they had to overcome, the impact they are creating and the leap the company is taking. Everybody jump!
 
Client: Rubio impact ventures
 
Media: Video
 
My role: Concept, camera, interview, editing
 
Languages: English

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Short video stories on climate adaption

7 May 2020
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Short video stories on climate adaption for Enpuls

Project info: For the first online trend report by enery think tank Enpuls we made short video stories to show how climate adaption works in real life.

In short scenes we see the main character Rikkert saving energy and water and finding solutions for climate change. I created the concept and script, did camera and edit. Animations were made by animation studio Jagthund.
 
Client: Enpuls
 
Media: Video
 
My role: Concept, script, camera, edit
 
Languages: Dutch

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Short doc Perspectief

20 November 2019
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Short documentary made for Perspectief victim offender mediations, director’s cut

Project info: It all starts with a simple theft of a bag. What happens next is something both perpetrator and victim could not predict. This short documentary, made on behalf of Perspectief, a Dutch organization that brings perpetrators of crimes into contact with victims, tells the story of two lives that meet.

It’s a story full of paradox: the offender, a drug addict, asks the judge for a longer sentence. The victim wants to report the perpetrator, with one condition: that something positive comes out of it. For the offender.

After interviewing both main characters in preparation of this production, I realized how both lives were wide apart, but were connected through this simple crime.

This is the director’s cut.
 
Client: Perspectief Herstelbemiddeling
 
Media: Video
 
My role: Script, interview, camera, edit
 
Languages: Dutch

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Chaptered life story – an interactive multimedia longscroll

23 October 2018
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Interactive/multimedia longread ‘Denish’


Project info: This impressive life story is told by Denish, former child soldier from Uganda. The kind of story you find in an evil children’s book. Non-fiction, that is.
 
This multimedia production has been made in close cooperation with War Child Holland. This Dutch NGO provides psychosocial support to children affected by armed conflict. Denish has been a child soldier in the civil war in Northern Uganda. He was forced to join the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in their fight for control over the Northern part of the African country.
 
Denish’ interview was done February 2017. In 2017 War Child Holland closed the programme in Uganda after being active in the country for 12 years.
 
Watch this longscroll, or ‘chaptered life story’ on how Denish wakes up from his childhood nightmares.
 
Client: Autonomous
 
Media: Video, photography
 
My role: Interviewing, video editing, production and interaction design
 
Languages: English
 
Watch the full multimedia longscroll story "Waking up from childhood nightmares"

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We are War Child – video portraits

8 May 2015
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We are War Child series of video portraits on vimeo

Interactive video series


Project info: In ‘We are War Child’ people in and around the Dutch NGO War Child step into the spotlight: children in War Child’s programs, donors, employees, volunteers and many more. The short video profiles are interlinked, visitors can scroll through the various portraits.

 
Client: War Child

 
Media: Interactive video

 
My role: Concept development and project roll-out

 
Languages: Dutch
 
   Too bad, story is offline

View all video portraits of ‘We are War Child’

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