SAM is a self-made woman. She started to explore the art of editing by just doing it, learning from YouTube clips and a speed course in the editing program Premiere. For a long time, this was more a hobby than anything else. She didn’t have a clue that editing could be a real job. But a decade later she finds herself editing various films and documentaries. Nowadays she finds herself losing track of time while editing, just like she did as a child when she was a true hoarder collecting everything from sticks, stones and shells to beer caps, phone cards and flippos. Back then all of this, let's be real, clutter had a particular place in her heart, it might turn out to be that films with a dry sense of humour or realistic drama eventually are going to be her favourites. With a clear vision and ambition, she doesn't need to relax by grabbing a book or getting on a yoga mat. Quite the contrary actually, for it is simply jamming away behind the drums that releases her tensions best. 

Website Sam

The moment JELLE decided to be a colour grader? That was only when at the production company Ambassadors he set up a VR department. When he graduated from the Multi-Media Design Academy of Breda in 2015, colour grading did not yet make him tick at all. But when he saw how in that dark room the shades of a film got looked at so closely, he was intrigued. Next, he just taught himself how to by arranging an interview somewhere and saying he wanted to work as a grader. He was given the chance and got hired. Now he lives out his passion for colours in films that are, preferably, amazingly executed, the kinds in which the love for filmmaking is felt directly. If the story contains a positive message about life: even better. In the meantime, he also creates his own stories by being the leader of a Dungeons and Dragons group. This is already the third year they have been coming together. He will leave them to themselves for a bit though if you would offer him to go exploring. Whether that is somewhere exotic to see the northern lights or something quite plain as the island of Texel, you can always wake him up for some trip or the other.

Website Jelle

He has always been interested in all kinds of stuff, and tried out a variety of schools. But leaving none of them with a degree, REMI’s education has been at the school of life. He began his career as a selfmade man as a VTR operator with an Amsterdam postproduction house. After a while though, he felt he needed more creativity to keep him happy in his work. Therefore during evening hours he started to master the telecine, and immediately knew this is what he wanted. Learning the old fashioned way, he grew along with modern technology turning himself into a colourist who knows his art. Still, that’s not the only thing that makes him tick, since he has a fascination for photography, a love for the legendary Dutch singer Andre Hazes and is simply addicted to ramen (which he can eat every day). Although the people who know Remi from the days he was into football, would describe him by a whole other feature. Cause he was the guy who once gave the famous Edgar Davids a panna.

Website Remi

RUBEN grew up with a mum who worked as a journalist and a dad who made documentaries. Nevertheless, computers and laptops were his first love. Hopelessly interested in how those worked, he earned his first degree in engineering. So even though he is an editor, the title engineering consultant suits him just as well. Eventually however, his inherited nature to make images move creeped up to the surface. And whether he liked it or not, it lit a fire that couldn’t be extinguished. The day Ruben found out that editing films is actually a profession with which one can earn a living, was therefore a happy one. He immediately enrolled at the Netherlands Film Academy, to graduate in 2011. With one need satisfied, another popped up: the desire to make films or documentaries that inspire to think about life. He likes movies that matter and hopes that with every cut that he creates he contributes to making this world a better place. Being pretty good at that, doesn’t mean he is flawless. He indeed definitely has a big flaw, since he can’t possibly look ahead in time. Even one day further than today things start to get blurry. Then again, isn’t the now just the perfect place to be?

Website Ruben