Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Moniek Wester Keegstra is an independent filmmaker at Monkee Films She has been working as director, self-directing camerawoman and editor since 1995. Moniek directed for Dutch Television and her film ‘Gaza, Gabbers, Graffity’ was nominated for “Prix d’Europe” (Berlin, 1997), Danube Festival (Bratislava,1998), Cinekid (Amsterdam,1998) and Basic Trust (Tel Aviv, 2000). In 2002 she became part of the ‘26000 Faces’ TV/Online film project http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/26.000_gezichten about asylum seekers in the Netherlands. Renowned filmmakers directed 99 short film portraits about asylum seekers who had been living for longer than 7 years in the Netherlands and still did not know if they could stay. Moniek directed the short film Sarah (2004) which was screened at the IDFA festival. The ‘26000 Faces’ project influenced Dutch politics deeply. Since then internet and documentary have become her passion. Moniek is interested in how the internet can reclaim a filmmaker’s freedom to tell the stories that they consider important. In 2006 she started the new-media ‘Lifeboat: HIV – Daring to Share’ Project, won the Digital Academy Prize for Innovating New Media projects in 2009 (http://www.lifeboatfilms.org) Besides her independent film work, Moniek Wester Keegstra works in commission for NGO’s such as Medicines Sans Frontiers, Oxfam Novib as self directing camerawoman, editor and producer. She made films about war trauma in Bosnia and Sierra Leone, about female condoms in Malawi and about AIDS and TB in Zambia.
April • 2023
Moniek is a talented filmmaker, she produced this documentary over different seasons and by doing so she managed to tell a complex story. She was easy to communicate with and was open to ideas and suggestions. It was a pleasure to work with her.
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