Paula van der Oest



Paula van der Oest ( Low-Soeren, 1st January 1965 ) is a Dutchfilm director , who is also her most films screenplay writing. ==Career [ edit] == With Thrilling, her graduation film from 1988 by the Dutch Film Academy , she won a Tuschinski Film Award . She then worked for several years as assistant director, to return as director. Return in 1994 For the VPRO series Lolamoviola she made ​​the short films Coma and Achilles and the crosswalk . The first she won a Golden Calf in the category of best television drama.

In 1996 Van der Oest made ​​her first feature film, the new mother . It also starred her then-husband Theu Boermans a role he would later as Zus & play. The film was followed in 1998 bythe trip Teetje, with Cees Geel as seedy entrepreneur who buys a Russian freighter.

With Sister & so loosely based on Chekhov'sThe Three Sisters, directed Van der Oest in 2001 for the first mainstream movie . The realistic character and the relationships between characters from previous films continued to focus on, but there was more humor added, and an English script doctor helped a little with it. With success: the film was an Oscar nominee. The audience left the film, however, are left.

This was followed by the English-language thriller-cum-fairytale Moonlight (2002) about the relationship between a thirteen year old girl and an equally old beads swallower, it is in the Surinamese community autoplay Madame Jeanette(in 2004 a great success in the Bijlmer ) and Renate Dorrestein filming Hidden defects (2004).

In 2001 she wrote the screenplay for Meral Uslu 's telefilm Roos and Rana . ==Filmography [ edit] ==