Hilbert Kamphuisen

Documentaire Instituut Amsterdam
Director and Producer

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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About Hilbert

Hilbert Kamphuisen (1964) lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
He is married and has two daughters, Ammy and Santje. As producer/director/editor/dop he worked many years for the Dutch public broadcasters such as
the VPRO, Teleac, RVU, IKON and Llink. The main focus was direct film in science and socio- economical and political topics.
After finishing his study Political Science in the early years he started working for Amnesty International as a photographer and filmer. For them he organized the first Amnesty Film Festival and went on a mission to Central-Afrika were he witnessed the Hutu and Tutsi genocide.
Beside working for the public broadcasters Kamphuisen also did more commercial work. He edited the documentary projects for the film Blackbook of Paul Verhoeven and directed a serie about archtecture for RTL.
He is the founder and owner of DUS media & design. A production company based in Amsterdam. Beside his filmwork he teaches at the University of Amsterdam the minor Poldox. Poldox is documentary-film programme for third year students. For his work at the University he was granted the Educational Filmprize 2010 by the Royal Dutch Film Institute EyE. As a student he won The OLON documentary award in 1994, the Eureka Award for his science documentaries in 2002 and more recently in 2011 the first prize for best international short documentary for Toxic Tears at the Global Wake-Up festifal in Chicago.
Since 2014 he founded the Documentary Institute at Amsterdam for academic film education.

Unique traits: Academic film education - practise based learning

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Spraying pesticide. Still from Toxic Tears

Credits

Documentaire Instituut Amsterdam (2013 - 2017)
Documentary by DIA (Documentary) ceo Academic Media Institute
Toxic Tears (2011)
Documentary by DUS film producer/editor
Poldox.nl (2010)
Documentary by DUS media Teacher/Owner
Northernlight/ VPRO (2004)
Documentary by VPRO producer/director
For a little support and affection (1994)
Documentary by Videojournaal producer/editor