Journalist by background, filmmaker by choice. I try to bring the best of both worlds into everything I do: curiosity, depth, and a commitment to stories that matter.

Since graduating, my work has taken me to distant places: from covering terrorism in Corsica to Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria, ex-Soviet chess players in Southern Spain, and Navajo bullfighters in the Arizona desert. Over the last decade, I have directed and produced documentaries across Europe and the United States, focusing on themes of inclusion, community, housing, memory, and historical responsibility.

My most recent projects explore the emotional aftermath of conflict and the imaginative ways we confront trauma. The Dutchbat (currently in postproduction) follows six former UN peacekeepers as they return to Srebrenica, where they were stationed during the 1995 genocide. A journey that unravels into a confrontation with guilt, memory, and moral reckoning.

In development, Kamnop is a cinematic treasure hunt between a Cambodian mother and her US-born daughter as they return to their homeland in search of buried gold—and buried traumas. Blending absurd humor with emotional depth, the film explores the legacy of intergenerational trauma left by the Khmer Rouge regime and displacement, asking how imagination, dreams, and spirituality might lead us to hidden forms of justice.

Earlier, I co-directed You Play My Father (2023), a hybrid documentary about a Bosnian genocide survivor and a Dutch veteran who share the stage in a play that reenacts their wartime encounter. My debut feature, The Right to Rest (2019), chronicled the rise of a self-governed community of unhoused people in Denver, Colorado. My short film Pianola (2012) portrayed Marta, a young dancer living with child cerebral palsy.

While my focus is directing, I also have professional experience as a cinematographer and editor on international co-productions and television broadcast projects, which allows me to support each film from development to delivery with an integrated perspective.