Students

Ten new students just entered the Master’s Degree Programme 2011-2013. To begin with, we asked them to go to the International Film Festival Rotterdam and share some of the reflections about the films that inspire them. Check these four:
- Gwendolyn Nieuwenhuize
- Pedro Collantes
- Jovana Tokic
- Alexander McKenzie
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Reinier Noordzij (1981) studied direction at the Theatre Academy Maastricht (2007). He has since worked as an assistant director, as an actor and as a casting director. He embarked on the Master of Film Programme in 2009.

'Writing and directing for film and TV is the course I have chosen. I learned a great deal about actor direction in Maastricht, where the programme is good, broad based and highly disciplined. And although I enjoy working with stage actors, I have always had this urge to make films.'
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Bogomir Doringer (Yugoslavia, 1983) has a background in fashion design and visual art. After studying Sociology in Belgrade and completing a Bachelor’s at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, he started the Master of Film Programme in 2009.

'I grew up in Yugoslavia during wartime. It was an intense and inspiring time with lots of uncontrolled isolated 'freedom', which required maturity at an early age. My exit from the war-isolated zone was film, and the offering was amazing: in one day I could watch Almodovar, Bergman, Lynch, John Carpenter and Dynasty.'
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Bart Juttmann (1981) graduated as a scriptwriter from the Film Academy in 2005. He wrote several scripts, directed a short film and commenced the Master’s Degree Programme in 2009. Why?

'What I actually want to learn is screenwriting. To me, this implies writing lucid scripts. I have no interest in dictating whole series of details about cutting, light or diction, but want to inspire the cast and crew to perform at their absolute best.'
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