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Niels Bourgonje

  • Director
  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
  • Producer
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Niels Bourgonje
Niels Bourgonje (1980) is an award-winning short film and commercial director based in Amsterdam. Niels graduated with the short thriller BURN, which was selected for several international film festivals winning numerous awards. Since then, his short films have consistently been selected for Academy Award qualifying festivals like Palm Springs ShortFest, Seattle International Film Festival, HollyShorts International Film Festival, Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, Odense International Film Festival, Izmir International Short Film Festival, Brussels Short Film Festival and Leuven Kortfilm. His most short films, TURN IT AROUND, SKOGAFOSS and SWIPE, garnered over one hundred film festival selections. His latest short SHUT was nominated for the Méliès d'Or; the best European fantastic short film. SWIPE is currently being adapted into a feature screenplay by Timur Bekmanbetov's Bazelevs. He is repped by Sukee Chew at Sugar23.
BornNovember 13, 1980
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BornNovember 13, 1980
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    • Awards
      • 95 wins & 57 nominations total

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    Known for

    Swipe (2019)
    Swipe
    6.5
    Short
    • Director
    • 2019
    Dormant (2024)
    Dormant
    7.2
    Short
    • Director
    • 2024
    Shut (2021)
    Shut
    5.9
    Short
    • Director
    • 2021
    Woodland Cemetery (2019)
    Woodland Cemetery
    6.0
    Short
    • Director
    • 2019

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    Director



    • Dormant (2024)
      Dormant
      7.2
      Short
      • Director
      • 2024
    • H3lloween (2021)
      H3lloween
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2021
    • H3L (2019)
      H3L
      6.5
      TV Mini Series
      • Director
      • 2021
    • Shut (2021)
      Shut
      5.9
      Short
      • Director
      • 2021
    • Carmen van Zantwijk in Sleepless Nights (2021)
      Sleepless Nights
      6.6
      Short
      • Director
      • 2021
    • Walt Klink in Barrier (2020)
      Barrier
      6.3
      Short
      • Director
      • 2020
    • Woodland Cemetery (2019)
      Woodland Cemetery
      6.0
      Short
      • Director
      • 2019
    • Swipe (2019)
      Swipe
      6.5
      Short
      • Director
      • 2019
    • Boys on Film 18: Heroes (2018)
      Boys on Film 18: Heroes
      6.3
      • Director
      • 2018
    • Martijn Lakemeier in Skógafoss (2017)
      Skógafoss
      7.0
      Short
      • Director
      • 2017
    • Bridge (2017)
      Bridge
      7.2
      Short
      • Director
      • 2017
    • Tonko Bossen and Valentijn Avé in Turn It Around (2017)
      Turn It Around
      7.4
      Short
      • Director
      • 2017
    • Buddy (2015)
      Buddy
      6.8
      Short
      • Director
      • 2015
    • Deserted (2015)
      Deserted
      7.7
      Short
      • Director
      • 2015
    • Noabers (2015)
      Noabers
      7.6
      Short
      • Director
      • 2015

    Second Unit or Assistant Director



    • Missed (2018)
      Missed
      8.0
      Short
      • assistant director
      • 2018
    • Inconvenient Comfort (2016)
      Inconvenient Comfort
      7.9
      Short
      • assistant director
      • 2016
    • Groen (2015)
      Groen
      7.2
      Short
      • assistant director
      • 2015
    • Between Walls (2015)
      Between Walls
      Short
      • assistant director
      • 2015
    • Undercover (2015)
      Undercover
      6.3
      TV Movie
      • assistant director
      • 2015
    • Vrij (2014)
      Vrij
      7.7
      TV Movie
      • assistant director
      • 2014
    • In het niets (2013)
      In het niets
      7.5
      • assistant director
      • second unit director
      • 2013
    • Collins Kosmos
      Short
      • assistant director
      • 2011
    • Broertje
      Short
      • assistant director
      • 2011
    • Happy Birthday (2011)
      Happy Birthday
      Short
      • first assistant director
      • 2011
    • Dump
      7.3
      Short
      • first assistant director
      • 2011
    • Kijken naar Sacha
      Short
      • first assistant director
      • 2010
    • Zonde (2010)
      Zonde
      6.7
      Video
      • first assistant director
      • 2010
    • Andere Dagen
      Short
      • first assistant director
      • 2009

    Producer



    • Dormant (2024)
      Dormant
      7.2
      Short
      • producer
      • 2024
    • Woodland Cemetery (2019)
      Woodland Cemetery
      6.0
      Short
      • producer
      • 2019
    • Bram Suijker in Ballen (2013)
      Ballen
      7.5
      Short
      • creative producer
      • 2013
    • Ten Days Before Spring (2012)
      Ten Days Before Spring
      8.7
      Short
      • associate producer
      • 2012
    • Broertje
      Short
      • assistant producer
      • 2011
    • Terrestrials (2010)
      Terrestrials
      6.2
      • assistant producer
      • 2010
    • De Punt (2009)
      De Punt
      6.8
      TV Movie
      • assistant producer
      • 2009

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    • Born
      • November 13, 1980
      • Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands

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