Gerrie Timmerman

Gerrie Timmerman, a Dutch-born filmmaker, has participated in several international projects.
After producing a Dutch low-budget feature and working on several human-interest documentaries
in Europe and Japan, she resettled to Los Angeles.

From 1996 to 1998, she participated in Steven Spielberg’s Holocaust Project Survivors of the Shoah
Visual History Foundation, which has documented more than 52,000 survivor testimonies worldwide.
She contributed to the realization of two of the Foundation’s documentaries, Lost Children of Berlin
and the Oscar-winning The Last Days, directed by James Moll.

In 1998, while working on her directorial documentary debut Disappearing Act, she started her own production company
The Magician’s Daughter Productions, with offices in Los Angeles and the Netherlands.
The company has several projects in production and development.

In 2006, she founded the non-profit media organization Culture Wrap.
Culture Wrap focuses on films and projects that promote cross- cultural understanding and endorse intercultural partnerships.
Culture Wrap is now a social arm of Gerrie’s company TMD Media Group LLC, that she established in 2020 in Oregon.

In 2012, Gerrie initiated the co-production of the Dutch documentary Ben Ali Libi, Magician with Dutch broadcaster NTR.
The film was released in May 2015. It had 642,000 viewers in the Netherlands on its first showing.
It had a theatrical release and played numerous international film festivals, such as the Washington Jewish Film Festival.

Gerrie is currently in post-production on her short documentary Truco and
in pre-production with her feature film script The Magician's Daughter, which is based on a true story.