KATELIJNE SCHRAMA

studied fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam (BA) where she produced a short film Daydreams and Sandman for her end exam in 2000. Since then she has worked as a filmmaker for several production companies in the Netherlands as well as director, director assistant and editor of documentary films. 

Before the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Katelijne Schrama also studied at the Technical School for Gold and Silversmithing in Schoonhoven, the Netherlands. She is an documentary filmmaker, artist and goldsmith.

360º Horizon, land without a past was her first mid-length documentary; it was nominated for best debut film at the 2007 Dutch Film Festival.

1974 is her second short film and has been shown a various festvials in Germany, Rwanda, Ukraine, Netherlands. 

Georgica is her first feature documentary and premiered at IDFA 2014. Georgica won the prize for best documentary at 28th Neue Heimatfilm Festival 2015 in Freistadt, Austria. The BOS/2DOC and RSI Switzerland broadcasted the film on television.

Recently she is working on a new feature documentary Oase.

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