About me
Annegriet Wietsma is ilmmaker and publicist since rounding off her studies in Pedagogic Science at the University of Amsterdam. She has films in widely diverging genres to her name and has written several books and articles. She is workshop trainer of Oral History Interview techniques and guest teacher of Film in higher education.
trackrecord
- Documentary ‘Sozdar’, about one of the female leaders of the Kurdish resistance movement PKK. This film was screened on many international film festivals.
- Direction & production of the international doc Just People for the organisation Humanity in Action. Just People is a film essay about the delicate balance between group behaviour and individual moral responsibility.
- Currently working on the transmedia project www.warlovechild.org, wich resulted in the feature length documentary Sir Daddy (Tuan Papa). This project is about the unknown stories of the withhold children of Dutch militaries, who fathered a child with Indonesian girls during the colonial war 1945–1949.
awards
Sozdar:
- Top-10 audience favorites IDFA Amsterdam 2007
- best feature length documentary Arizona Int. FF, 2008
- audience favorite VPRO tv-broadcastings 2010
remarks
High-potential director, teamplayer, independent
Productions
Website
verhalen en zoektochten van oorlogsliefdekinderen, hun vaders en (half)familie
Love in wartime. During the colonial war in Indonesia 1946-1949, Dutch soldiers maintained extensive contacts with Indonesian girls. Often they fathered children as a result of their ‘war romances’. Many of these warlovechildren never met their fathers. They kept looking for them all their lives...