★RESUME ILJA WILLEMS★ TV- & FILM MAKER www.iljaNY.com
[email protected] (+1) 917 855 5791 COMPETENCE The last 14 years I have become experienced in making documentary series and television programs for divergent genres, mostly as a director but I am also capable of producing, editing and researching my own subjects. I am known for my energy and creativity. Colleagues describe me as a strong minded, driven but flexible professional who has worked all over the world in difficult situations with people from many different backgrounds. My specialties are: to get people to tell their personal stories - and reproduce the story in a way that it becomes an interesting film or television. And most of all, I specialized in working abroad: to create, realize & complete in difficult conditions and under all circumstances. OVERVIEW WORK EXPERIENCE ‘Metropolis’ - Director Series of Cultural Portraits, VPRO ’11, ’13 -USA ‘Mooi Geweest’ (It’s been great’) - Director Independent Documentary 2013 ‘Uptown Girls’ - Character Casting Reality show, Eyeworks NL ‘13 ‘Peking Express’ - Sr. Content Producer (eindredacteur) Derivative of ‘Amazing Race’ - South Korea & Philippines ‘12 ‘O’Hanlons Heroes’ - Researcher/ Content Producer Travel documentary on 19thcentury explorers – USA ‘11 ‘Labyrinth’ - Director Scientific program, VPRO, ‘11/’10 -USA ‘The Beagle, on the Origin of Species’ - Researcher/ Content Producer Travel documentary series on Charles Darwin -Around the world ’08-‘10 ‘Goudzoekers’ (Gold diggers) – Content producer/ researcher/ director Program on