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Chris Westendorp

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Chris Westendorp is an Amsterdam based writer and director. She started as a documentary film maker before she got into screenwriting. She graduated from the Dutch Film and Television Academy in 2001 with the documentary Westwood Loves You. With this film she won, among others, the Prins Bernard Culture Prize. After her graduation, she immediately started to write for cinema and television. Her films and television-series have won many prices and are shown at festivals around the world. Westendorp still loves documentaries and worked on the prize winning-documentary series Debt Society. This year she will be working with the same team on a new documentary series about education. Westendorp lives with her partner and daughter in Amsterdam.
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      • 4 wins & 3 nominations total

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    Westwood Loves You
    Short
    • Writer
    • 2001
    Yannick Jozefzoon and Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing in Santos (2023)
    Santos
    6.9
    TV Series
    • Writer
    Sevgil Musaieva in Niemand die het ziet (2024)
    Niemand die het ziet
    7.5
    TV Series
    • Director
    Jeroen van Koningsbrugge and Dennis van de Ven in Smeris (2014)
    Smeris
    7.5
    TV Series
    • Writer

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    • Yannick Jozefzoon and Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing in Santos (2023)
      Santos
      6.9
      TV Series
      • head writer
      • story
      • 2023–2024
    • Alihan Sahin and Sinan Eroglu in Beraber (2023)
      Beraber
      6.7
      • Writer
      • 2023
    • De jurk en het scheepswrak (2023)
      De jurk en het scheepswrak
      8.2
      • dramaturge
      • 2023
    • Klassen (2020)
      Klassen
      9.1
      TV Mini Series
      • dramaturge
      • 2020–2021
    • Jennifer Welts and Esmée van Kampen in Hemelrijken (2019)
      Hemelrijken
      6.4
      TV Movie
      • Writer
      • 2019
    • Theo Maassen, Ilias Chouitar, Rami Kooti Arab, Matti Stooker, Kees van Wandelen, Lotte Dorenbos, Rover van Gennep, and Owen Kaat in Zeven kleine criminelen (2019)
      Zeven kleine criminelen
      8.0
      TV Series
      • scenario
      • 2019
    • Penoza (2010)
      Penoza
      8.2
      TV Series
      • head writer
      • 2015–2017
    • Benja Bruijning, Johan Leysen, Peter Paul Muller, Waldemar Torenstra, Kimberley Klaver, Werner Kolf, and Imanuelle Grives in Vechtershart (2015)
      Vechtershart
      7.4
      TV Series
      • scenario
      • 2015–2016
    • Loes Luca and Huub Stapel in Goedenavond, dames en heren (2015)
      Goedenavond, dames en heren
      7.5
      TV Series
      • screenplay
      • 2015
    • Confetti Harvest (2014)
      Confetti Harvest
      6.8
      • screenplay
      • 2014
    • Jeroen van Koningsbrugge and Dennis van de Ven in Smeris (2014)
      Smeris
      7.5
      TV Series
      • Writer
      • 2014
    • Ko Zandvliet and Gijs Blom in Boys (2014)
      Boys
      7.4
      TV Movie
      • screenplay
      • 2014
    • Van God los (2011)
      Van God los
      7.7
      TV Series
      • Writer
      • 2012
    • Luca in My Moms and Dads (2008)
      My Moms and Dads
      Short
      • Writer
      • 2008
    • Ongeletterd (2007)
      Ongeletterd
      • Writer
      • 2007

    Director



    • Alpha 00
      • Director
      • Pre-production
      • TV Series



    • Queerkamp (2024)
      Queerkamp
      7.4
      • Director
      • 2024
    • Sevgil Musaieva in Niemand die het ziet (2024)
      Niemand die het ziet
      7.5
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2024
    • Luca in My Moms and Dads (2008)
      My Moms and Dads
      Short
      • Director
      • 2008
    • Ongeletterd (2007)
      Ongeletterd
      • Director
      • 2007
    • Afdwalen
      5.4
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 2006
    • Westwood Loves You
      Short
      • Director
      • 2001

    Producer



    • Klassen (2020)
      Klassen
      9.1
      TV Mini Series
      • commissioning editor
      • commissioning editor: HUMAN
      • 2020–2021

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