The Producers

Natalie Bruijns – Director

Director Natalie Bruijns was born in Israel (1987) and moved to the Netherlands in 2006. In Israel, she attended Wizo, a theater school in Haifa, where her love for directing
began. She graduated in 2013 from the Utrecht School of the Arts in the field of Film Directing Fiction. She worked for several years as an assistant director on fiction films. In addition, she taught theater and Hebrew to children. In 2016, she directed the VPRO series Titaantjes. The short film Zeepaard (2020) marked her directorial debut. Her youth series “Van Binnen Stroomt Het” premiered at Cinekid 2024 in Amsterdam and won the Most Original series Award. This is a
series about children and intimate feelings that explores the boundary between dance and documentary.

Anneke de Lind van Wijngaarden – Director

Anneke de Lind van Wijngaarden (1971) is a documentary filmmaker from the Netherlands. She studied film at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Since then, she has made many (youth) documentaries, including Tietjes, Tongen, Hoe Nikita een paard kreeg, Danny's Parade, Titaantjes, Haiduc, and Dit Was Je Leukste Tante Ria. In her work, Anneke seeks poetry, humor, and lightness in her sometimes heavy stories. Anneke enjoys experimenting with form. In her latest documentary, INelson het minivarken (Nelson The Mini Pig) she used elements of fiction and even had a pig talk.