Kennis, opleidingen en ervaring:

Opleiding: MBO/ MTS

Stages en werkervaring: WORK (EMPLOYMENT)

2 year : Soldier National Army, Mobil Crane Driver
1 year : Automobile Mechanicer
2 years : Administrator
7 years : Social Worker (5 years youth & 2 years adult training center)

WORK (FREE – LANCE)

In The Netherlands:

Executive Production Manager Theatre
Dance production, Claud Chamber at the Opera Amsterdam
Theatre, Royal de Luxe at Bordeaux in France
Various small film and theatre productions on location and studio

Styling: Film, Video, Festival Productions.
Art-director/stylist during Netherlands Film Festival (7 times), Holland Festival, International Documentary Festival Amsterdam and the Africa in the Picture film festival. Producer and director of various TV programs for a Dutch local TV station.

Casting / Production / Location Manager.
Various Film and TV productions / Various Dutch feature films (such as De Illusionist, A Month Later, De Wisselwachter etc.) / Commercials (such as KLM pr film, Bolletje, The Hypotheker etc.). / Television series (as De man met de Hoed and De Brug). / Various Theater productions (such as Plate du Jour with Jim v.d. Woude).

2001 : Established the foundation Media Focus on Africa
This foundation is taken over by others in 2005 and is today still working with 15 employers in Nairobi Kenya.

2008 : Established the foundation Documentary Services Globalization
This foundation can be operational in 2011. We build up a documentary database on Globalization with various themes related to this subject. Today we’ve around 720 documentary titels.


In Surinam;

1996 : Author & Producer & Director
22 Childrens TV programmes at Uganda in cooperation with local producers,
Financed by Unicef Suriname, Royal Dutch Embassy.
Concept: To answer Children’s questions, (concept: Willem Wever)

In Africa:

2009 : Multi Media Project presentation to the Kasoma Media Foundation Zambia KMF is able to participate in this project, they are willing to cooperate.

2006 - 2008 : Initiator & Producer
In cooperation with the foundation Basicviews & Docwork Africa (workorg.): a presentation of 35 documentaries with the theme Globalisation on the World Social Forum 2007 in Kenya named: the Slum Cinema Project.
Financed: ICCI, NCDO, HIVOS
Concept: Documentary info about globalization for the visitors of the WSF (seen in improvised small cinema’s) and to people in the slums.

2005 : Initiator
Multi Media Project “Leadership Month Kenya”
This project is realised at 2005 / 2006 through the foundation Media Focus on Africa.
Financed: Ford Foundation, ICCO, Royal Dutch Embassy Kenya.
Concept: info with documentaries and organised debates.

1 year 2003 : Author & Producer & Director
24 Childrens TV programmes at Uganda in cooperation with local producers,
Financed; by Unicef Uganda.
Concept: To answer Children’s questions, (concept: Willem Weve )

1 period 2002 : Initiator & Producer
Theater Production "Grab it Grib it" by Nadine Lavern Coles (an American Actor / Director) at the Makerere University in Kampala Uganda. Successfully workshops organised for students.
Concept: showing the hard live of a young women in Brooklyn New York and
realising theatre workshops “how to tell your own story”.

1 year 2002 : Author & Producer & Director
24 Childrens TV programmes called “Nyumba Ya Watoto” and “I Want to Known” at Uganda in cooperation with the Ugandan National Television.
Financed: by The Netherlands Embassy and Unicef in Kampala.
Concept 1: Children shows what they want for 2 min. / c.a.10 kids in one program.
Concept 2: Children ask question and the producer answered with experts
For example: Who is the earliest human being?, we shoot at the National Museum in Kenya with interview the famous palaeontology, Prof. Meave Leakey.

10 month 2001 : Documentary Research and Shooting
The Hearings of the Belgian Parliamentary Commission for the documentary
"Lumumba Anakuta".
Goal Commission: Report of the involvement of Belgian Government in the murder of Patrice Lumumba, because of the 9/11 attack in N.Y. VPRO cancelled this.

6 months 1997 : Author & Producer
Reports at a local television station in the Netherlands, As stage place / working with a mobile camera, and production.

2 months 1996 : Research Ghana
for realisation a Childrens TV Program, concept with the goal to give children a face and a voice. The "Woman in Broadcast Group" were willing to give support, but due to the missing of a good network and due to corruption this production was impossible.

1 year 1995 : Author & Producer & Director
24 Children’s TV programmes named “Pikin Oso” at Suriname in cooperation with the national television A.T.V.,
Financed: by The Netherlands Embassy & Unicef in Paramaribo.
Concept: Children show what they want for 2 minutes / c.a. 10 kids in one program.

1985 : Research in Congo
An excellent trip on the Congo stream in a wooden Kano from Kisangani to Kinshasa (1100 km) to learn about the live in Africa in the Mobutu period after reading “Heart of Darkness” of Joseph Conrad and “Band in the River” of V.S. Naipaul. It opened my eyes and mind for Africa.

1983 : First trip to Africa
I travelled to Mwanza on the Lake Victoria in Tanzania to see the rock where Spike saw, as the first white man the source of the Nile, Lake Victoria.

Opleidingen en cursussen: EDUCATION

3 years : Technical School, Automobile Mechanic, Utrecht
3 years : Technical School, Automobile Mechanic, Utrecht (evening)
3 years : MULO, Utrecht (evening)
3 years : Social Academy, Institution Work, Middeloo Amersfoort
2 years : Social Academy, Social Work, de Horst Driebergen
4 months : Video Education, Free Media Academy Amsterdam

Overige informatie:

Rijbewijs: A,B,E

Eigen vervoer: Nee

Persoonlijke eigenschappen: Doortastend en betrouwbaar

Hobby's en interesses:

Gewenste contractvorm: Parttime