Crew - Director

About Director.

Willem van Heemstra ('69) is a second year student of Film & TV at the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland.

His background is that of a consultant for the use of Information Technology for which he holds a Masters degree from the University of Phoenix, Arizona (USA). He studied Ecconomics in his country of origin, The Netherlands, before.

Willem is versatile in his approach of telling a compelling story, but he has found film the most powerful medium to do so. The combination of motion, sound, and light make for an experience that the spectator can fully emerse into.

Because of his travelling and living abroad, Willem has met many people from different cultural backgrounds. Their habits, forms of expression, and use of visual and oral language is a continuous source of inspiration for the screenplays he writes.

Thanks to a motivated and skillful team of crew and cast members for the film Shinju (meaning Pearls), the vast preparation to bring this film to you has become feasable. As the director, he hopes you will enjoy watching the film after it has been released in June 2007.

Willem can be contacted at wvanheemstra@xs4all.nl with reference to Shinju the movie.