Edition : Netherlands 2021
FLOOR VAN DER MEULEN
Director (The Netherlands)
Biography
Floor van der Meulen (1989, the Netherlands) studied Audiovisual Design at the Rotterdam WdKa Art Academy and the School of Visual Arts in New York. In 2014, she made her international debut with her documentary STORMING PARADISE, broadcast by Al Jazeera Channel and screened at numerous international film festivals including DOK Leipzig. 9 DAYS FROM MY WINDOW IN ALEPPO (2015) ,
which she codirected, was selected for International Film Festival Rotterdam, DOK Leipzig, won Best Short Film at the BFI Film Festival London, and picked up, after 85+ festival selections, the Best European Short Film Award at the 29th European Film Awards. Her 45 min drama IN EXILE (2016) was nominated for two ‘Dutch Oscars’ and won the award for Best Actress. Floor has been selected
to the roughcut Editing Station at IDFA Summer School 2018 with her documentary feature debut that she recently finished, THE LAST MALE ON EARTH (2019), which had its world premiere at CPH:DOX in Denmark. Floor directed the NTR hit series SKAM NL in 2019. PINK MOON will be her first narrative feature film.