Niels Bourgonje

Niels Bourgonje (1980) is an award-winning short film and commercial director based in Amsterdam. Niels graduated with the short thriller BURN, which was selected for several international film festivals winning numerous awards. Since then, his short films have consistently been selected for Academy Award qualifying festivals like Palm Springs ShortFest, Seattle International Film Festival, HollyShorts International Film Festival, Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, Odense International Film Festival, Izmir International Short Film Festival, Brussels Short Film Festival and Leuven Kortfilm. His most short films, TURN IT AROUND, SKOGAFOSS and SWIPE, garnered over one hundred film festival selections. SWIPE is currently being adapted into a feature screenplay by Timur Bekmanbetov's Bazelevs, and he is attached to direct Colin Banon's Black list horror screenplay, THE INTERVENTIONIST. He is repped by Sukee Chew at Sugar23.