THE GRASS ROUTE

Team

Director

Paul Sin Nam Rigter is an award winning screenwriter and director. Born in South Korea he was adopted and raised in the Netherlands. He started filmmaking with short fiction films and documentaries for national tv. All his documentary films were selected for filmfestivals worldwide including HotDocs and IDFA. His latest documentary Dealing with Death won the IDFA Award for Best Dutch Documentary. His screenplay for The Grass Route was awarded the Visser-Neerlandia Prize for Best Screenplay in 2024. In his work he combines a strong visual identity with rich characters and gripping stories full of authenticity.

www.paulrigter.nl

Producer

Witfilm is an award-winning independent production company run by producer Iris Lammertsma and producer/director Boudewijn Koole (a.o. Beyond Sleep and Kauwboy). Witfilm focuses on creative, social documentaries, arthouse fiction and films for a young audience. Concept development and intensive coaching of filmmakers, result in innovative, visually powerful films dealing with thought-provoking subjects. Witfilm works with directors who have a strong personal signature. By making high quality and visually powerful films of artistic nature, Witfilm aims at contributing to a thriving film sector globally.


www.witfilm.nl

Director of Photography

Gregg Telussa is an experienced DOP, born in Indonesia and raised in the Netherlands. He is known for several feature films as Bulado (Eché Janga) and Three Days of Fish (Peter Hogendoorn)), tv series like Dirty Lines (Netflix) and Santos (NPO), and documentaries such as Shabu (Shamira Raphaela), The Nose – Searching for Blamage and Dealing with Death (both Paul Sin Nam Rigter). He has been working with Paul Sin Nam Rigter on all his documentaries.

www.greggtelussa.com
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