Film-o-biography

ABOUT WIEK LENSSEN….

A project always starts with an idea. The idea is the shiny germ cell, from which a potential of possibilities can crystallize, when guided with proper care. The latter happens, when enough inspiration is present in the creator. The idea then takes shape, and if properly executed, it also acquires a soul. Then it can take on a life of its own.

As a versatile director, cameraman, and writer Wiek Lenssen is someone, who always follows his own fascination and becomes animated by it. This has allowed him to successfully turn many ideas into films, books, and screenplays.

Most projects reached a wide audience, far beyond their own national borders, and were awarded with prizes.

Wiek Lenssen worked for and with the following TV channels, clients, distributors, publishers:

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La Cinquième, tv 5 France

– tv 4 , France

NRK-tv Norway

ARD-telepool/ Bayerischer Rundfunk , Germany

ERT Greek Radio Television

RFO/ Dom TOM: tv for French overseas Territories

NPO (Netherlands National Public Broadcasting Organisation)

MAX tv Netherlands / NPO

VPRO tv Netherlands / NPO

NCRV tv Netherlands / NPO

SBS 6 tv Netherlands

L1 TV province Limburg, RPO Netherlands

HANS HEIJNEN Filmmaker

JURA Filmprodukties Amsterdam

Film CV Wandering Wolf

Netherlands cinema distribution for LAVA filmdistribution, Amsterdam

Stimuleringsfonds Nederlandse Culturele Mediaproducties

UNESCO

Oxfam Netherlands and Oxfam Belgium

Friends of the Earth NL- Milieudefensie

Solidaridad

Survival International

Cordaid Vastenaktie Nederland

NCDO

National film academy Bollywood, India

Royal National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden

Museum of the province of Limburg, Netherlands

Petiet Publishers, Netherlands/ France

Aspekt Publishers, Netherlands

Centrum voor Mondiaal Onderwijs, Nijmegen

Kösel Verlag München, Germany

Random House Publishing München, Germany

Goldmann Arkana Publishing, München,

Floriade 2012 Venlo

Province Limburg, arts and cultural fund

European Commission

Ministery of Foreign Affairs The Netherlands

Filmfestivals:

IDFA 2001: Amsterdam, official selection International Competition,

Italy, Trento/Assisi, 2003, Special Jury Prize (city of Assisi

Netherlands Film festival 2002: official selection competition Gouden Kalf

Limburgs Film Festival 2017 special jury prize

Minneapolis Saint Paul International Film Festival USA 2002

Sweden Umea international film festival 2002

Ethnofilmfest Berlin 1998

Jean Rouch/ Bilan du Film Ethnographique Paris 1998

Beeld voor Beeld, Amsterdam 1997 enn 2006,

Ambiente/Incontri, Sacile, Italië 1996,

Terres en Vue Canada 2007