Belgian filmmaker and Academic.

An VAN DIENDEREN is a Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Lecturer.
As filmmaker, she is graduated in audiovisual arts (Sint-Lukas, Brussels). She obtained a PhD in Comparative Cultural Sciences (Ghent University) and was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley.
She made several documentaries screened worldwide, awarded with (inter)national prizes. Films include Visitors of the Night (1998), Site (2000), Tu ne verras pas Verapaz (2002), The Ephemerist (2005), Patrasche, a Dog of Flanders - Made in Japan (2008), Cherry Blossoms (2012), Letter Home (2015), Lili (2015) and Prism (2021, Co-director).
She regularly publishes on visual/performative anthropology, is a lecturer at the KASK, School of Arts Ghent, and initiated the international art workspace SoundImageCulture.
Her work has been shown on the Margaret Mead Film and Video festival (New York), FID Marseille, DocFest Sheffield, Belluard Festival (Fribourg), DMZ Korea International documentary festival, International Short film Festival Oberhausen, FIDOCS, Festival Internacional de Documentales de Santiago, International Filmfestival Rotterdam, etc.

Filmography

Director (8 credits)
2021/II Prism (Documentary) (as An van. Dienderen)
2015 Lili (Documentary short)
2015 Letter Home (Documentary short)
2013 Cherry Blossoms (Documentary short)
2007 Patrasche: A Dog of Flanders, Made in Japan (Documentary) (as An Van Dienderen)
2002 Tu ne verras pas Verapaz (Documentary) (as An Van Dienderen)
1998 Site (Documentary) (as An Van Dienderen)
1998 Visiteur de la nuit (Documentary) (as An Van Dienderen)

Writer (5 credits)
2021/II Prism (Documentary)
2015 Lili (Documentary short)
2015 Letter Home (Documentary short) (writer)
2013 Cherry Blossoms (Documentary short) (writer)
1998 Visiteur de la nuit (Documentary) (researched and prepared for the screen by - as An Van Dienderen)

Producer (5 credits)
2013 Cherry Blossoms (Documentary short) (producer)
2007 Patrasche: A Dog of Flanders, Made in Japan (Documentary) (producer - as An Van Dienderen)
2005 De zakbibliothecaris van de Veldstraat (Short) (executive producer - as An Van Dienderen)
2002 Tu ne verras pas Verapaz (Documentary) (producer - as An Van Dienderen)
1998 Visiteur de la nuit (Documentary) (co-producer - as An Van Dienderen)

Cinematographer (1 credit)
2015 Letter Home (Documentary short)
Hide Hide Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (1 credit)
2007 Patrasche: A Dog of Flanders, Made in Japan (Documentary) (assistant director - as An Van Dienderen)

Additional Crew (1 credit)
2007 Patrasche: A Dog of Flanders, Made in Japan (Documentary) (researcher - as An Van Dienderen)

Thanks (2 credits)
2012 Kus me zachtjes (Short) (thank you to)
2011 Quixote's Island (thanks - as An Van Dienderen)

Self (1 credit)
2002 Tu ne verras pas Verapaz (Documentary) (as An Van Dienderen)


Alternate Names: An van. Dienderen | An Van Dienderen

Source:
* www.anvandienderen.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/PRISM_PRESS_ENG.pdf
* www.imdb.com/name/nm0994446/