passionate about factual filmmaking

Living the Tradition

Behind every Irish tune is an ancient tale of love and loss, of history and heroes. Living the Tradition is the journey cello player and composer Ilse de Ziah takes around Ireland in a search …

Craft Beer in Japan

Craft beer is a fast growing popular movement in Japan. Rob LoBreglio, Owner and Brewmaster at The Great Dane Pub & Brewing Co. in Madison, Wisconsin (USA), sets out to learn more about this exciting …

Our Last Transit of Venus

In June 2012 planet Venus passed across the disk of the Sun as seen from the Earth: a Transit of Venus. These transits occur in pairs (8 year separation between events) every approximately 100 years. …

Go with the Flow of the North Atlantic Ocean

In July 2015 a group of ocean scientists, engineers and technical crew from all over the world set out on a 3-week research cruise to service oceanographic moorings across the Irminger Sea between Iceland and …

My Old Hand Crank Camera

A short spontaneous upbeat film I made together with filmmaker Pieter-Rim de Kroon from Amsterdam in September 2010. In the days where every cell phone is equipped with a HD camera, video clips from all …

Between Mars and Svalbard

In this film, commissioned by the Portuguese National TV channel RTP2, I follow two groups of scientists from Portugal join forces on a quest to find out more about Mars. They study images sent back …

Serene Universe, an Inner Journey into Outer Space

Do you look up on a clear night and gaze in wonder on the stars deep into the Universe? They provoke inspiration and awe, a moment of calm, quiet, and peace in our hectic world. …

Spiral Galaxy, the Milky Way unravelled

Leiden, April 1953. It took centuries of searching, years of waiting, months of observing and weeks of calculating. For the very first time in human history a group of scientists looks at a map: the …

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