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Hi! My name is Simone de Vries, I am a documentary filmmaker, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Also: story producer, drama coach, directors coach. Ook: EINDREDACTEUR, DRAMATURG, REGIE COACH
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What’s Right? (dramaturgie coach)
Documentaire serie waarin Johan Fretz onderzoekt hoe de fundamenten van de Nederlandse verzorgingsstaat (arbeid, zorg, wonen en migratie) decennialang zijn uitgehold. De centrale premisse is de vraag of maatschappelijke crises het gevolg zijn van simpelweg falend beleid, of dat ze onderdeel zijn van een bewust politiek patroon.
Máxima, Special Advocate
This scene was voted ‘TV-MOMENT OF THE YEAR 2019’. Queen Maxima calls home from her job, offering a glimpse into her role as a regular mother.
Documentary where queen Máxima of The Netherlands is followed closely during her work for the UN.
State of Hate (eindredactie)
Former news correspondent Margriet van der Linden revisits and investigates HATE CRIMES, like the murder of Matthew Shepard, that had a lot of impact on her while working in the US, 20 years ago. The hate turns out to be shockingly current.
Touch Me Someplace I Can Feel (director)
winner Gouden Kalf Award
winner Beeld & Geluid Award Cultuur
Robin’s Road Trip (2017)
Touch Me Someplace I can Feel (director)
John Callahan, the irreverent cartoonist from Portland, is on a quest: to shock people into self-reflection. But he also has a, often hidden, very soft side that comes out in his songs. Intimate doc about a very funny, in- your- face artist.
Gus van Sant made his life into a movie: ‘Don’t worry he won’t get far on foot’.
Robin’s Road Trip (director)
Photographer Robin de Puy: travelling alone far away from home is her biggest fear. Yet she sets off on a road trip though the US on a Harley Davidson. She is often too scared to leave her motel room, but she is on a mission: finding her own voice as a photographer, breaking free. Very intimate documentary, where Robin picks the people SHE wants to photograph, and eventually gets to know herself a little more through her own photographs.
*International Emmy Award Nominee*
RUTGER HAUER: BLOND, BLUE EYES (director)
Documentary on enigmatic Dutch actor Rutger Hauer, a total recluse. After a year of trying I was finally granted access to his life… it resulted in this portrait where we see all facets of his life: acting all over the world in very different films- from a Romanian low budget movie to Goal 2 at Bernabéu …