I am a Dutch investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker. Recently I graduated from the School of Journalism in Utrecht. As a starting journalist and filmmaker, I am highly motivated to continue developing my work and to create new documentaries and investigative stories.
I am driven by curiosity, a strong sense of social responsibility, and the desire to tell meaningful stories about the world around us. I am always eager to learn, to collaborate with others, and to keep growing within the field of documentary filmmaking and investigative journalism.
Through documentary film and investigative reporting I explore stories at the intersection of politics, borders and inequality. I focus on underreported stories and the human consequences of global power structures.
My documentary From Compassion to Crime investigates the criminalisation of solidarity in Europe and the growing pressure on people who help refugees at Europe's borders.
More about meMy documentary From Compassion to Crime investigates the criminalisation of solidarity in Europe and the growing pressure on people who help refugees at Europe's borders.
The film follows aid workers, lawyers and journalists who support people fleeing conflict, and the legal and political consequences they face as a result.
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Pieter Wittenberg, Ingeborg Beugel and Tommy Olsen, three people who helped refugees and were criminally prosecuted for it.
On the eight-year trial of 24 aid workers on Lesbos and what it says about solidarity in Europe.
What happens to the bodies of migrants who do not survive the Mediterranean crossing, and one man who tries to give them a name.
The documentary is screened at festivals, in independent cinemas, at universities and at civil society organisations across Europe.
View all screenings"What struck me most was seeing how inhumanely refugees are treated, and yet the people who helped them keep finding ways to keep helping."
· Viewer, ZIMIHC Zuilen
"It gave me a far more human picture of reality than I had before. You really get a sense of the person behind the word refugee."
· Viewer, Pakhuis de Zwijger
"In the worst case he could face twenty years in prison, says Stanzen Lèh Jelsma, who made a documentary about three people being prosecuted in Greece."
· STIL Utrecht
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