Roxanne Stam

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BIOGRAPHIE

CURRENTLY... Roxanne is developing a youth film called Vaderdag with the production company A Private View in Belgium. She is also writing on another film script, together with four young women in Amsterdam. This film Who's Dad?! is based on their true experiences as young women dealing with family relationships. Her film 'DIENSTMEID #2', which she and writer & director Kurt Platvoet wrote, is selected for De Ontmoeting by AVROTROS 3lab and will be screened at Nederlands Film Festival, September 2021. Besides her own projects, she also works as a researcher for Occupied City, a documentary based on the book Atlas van een Bezette Stad, Amsterdam 1940-1945 by Bianca Stigter, directed by Steve McQueen. BEFORE... Roxanne worked as creative assistant director & second unit director for the international series Heirs of The Night (Amazon, BBC, NPO3), FENIX (Shariff Korver, KPN, Netflix) and the feature PENOZA the last chapter (Diederik van Rooijen). In 2019 she worked as creative assistant director & acting coach on the feature film I Don't Wanna Dance (Flynn von Kleist) and Zee van Tijd (Theu Boermans). In 2020 she worked as an assistant to Steve McQueen for Small Axe (BBC, Amazon) during post-production and as creative assistant director on Pink Moon (Floor van der Meulen) besides writing and developing her own projects. Her short film BULLSHIT starring Eva Laurenssen was screened in 2019 & 2020 at Rotterdams Open Doek, Rialto for Short, Fête de la Femme, Cultuurnacht Breda and selected by Kyiv International Film Festival where the film will be screened the 6th of August 2021 (belated due to the pandemic). The film is available at Cinetree. BEFORE THAT... Roxanne Stam (1988) graduated in 2012 as a theatre director & teacher from AHK, Amsterdam School of the Arts. She then worked for, among others, Toneelgroep Amsterdam (ITA), AHK, Jeugdtheaterschool Zuid-Oost and DEGASTEN. She founded BoLo Belooft, a community theatre project with, by and for the people of Bos en Lommmer (Amsterdam West) where she used to live herself. On Curaçao, she directed theatre performances in 2012 and 2014 with local youth at Luna Blou/La Tentashon and gave several theatre workshops on the island. As an acting coach for film, she previously worked with the young cast of A'dam - E.V.A., KLEM, De Ludwigs and Vechtershart.

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