Producer & Founder

Pieter van Huystee (born in 1956) started as a photographer for illustrated magazines. After working at a public broadcasting company he became creative director of IDTV. In this period he mainly did entertainment programmes, but also got in touch with Johan van der Keuken and produced one of his documentaries, ‘Brass Unbound’ 

In 1995 Pieter van Huystee started his own production company. Since then he has produced documentaries, feature films and single plays with well-known Dutch directors like Johan van der Keuken, Heddy Honigmann and Peter Delpeut. Besides, several young filmmakers got the opportunity  to realise their plans in cooperation with Pieter van Huystee Film.  

By combining daring with decisiveness, Pieter van Huystee Film has nowadays become one of the leading Dutch independent production companies, highly esteemed for the quality and wide range of its projects. In 1999 the distribution department Public Film was added, which sets out to release ‘Dutch Docs’ in local cinemas. Moreover, many van Huystee documentaries and features are screened at festivals all over the world and have been awarded many times.

LINE PRODUCER

After finishing her master in Filmstudies at the University of Amsterdam in 1997. Natascha has worked as a production manager, assistant producer and line producer for different producers for feature films and documentaries. Since 2010 she is working as a line Producer at Pieter van Huystee Film.

Festival Handling

Simone Merkus studied Film and Television at the University of Amsterdam and finished the Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam in 2008. She started working for Pieter van Huystee Film in 2009 and has been taking care of the festivals affairs ever since.

PUBLICITY

Curien Kroon started as office manager at Pieter van Huystee Film in 2007. During the years she developed herself within the company and is now also responsible for the publicity and sales coordination.  

Researcher

Hans Dortmans studied cultural psychology at the University of Nijmegen. He followed a one-year master class at the Dutch Film and Television Academy before he started working as a researcher and editor of different television programs at IDTV Film Productions. There he met Pieter van Huystee. He joined Pieter when he founded his own film production company.

Hans has been working for Pieter van Huystee Film for almost 15 years. He was researcher and co-writer for over 30 documentaries. In 2010, he directed his first film, Divine Pig. His documentary was selected for several international film festivals and won the Golden Merit award at the 2010 Taiwan international Documentary Filmfestival.

Hans is a regular lecturer on documentary research at the IDFA workshop and the Polytechnic of Amsterdam. Currently he is the head of development at Pieter van Huystee Film.

Accountancy

Production Manager

After studying Philosophy at the University of Utrecht, Constant set to Amsterdam for the Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie where he graduated in 2009. Constant has worked as a freelance producer for short art film and installations and at several film companies the past few years as a documentary film producer. Now he has settled at Pieter van Huystee Film working on wonderful projects while doing a lot of photography and flamenco guitar in his free time.

Production Manager

While finishing her study at the Dutch Film and Television Academy , Zoë started with an internship at Pieter van Huystee Film in 2012. Zoë immediately found her place in the team and it was hardly a surprise Zoë continued working at Pieter van Huystee Film after her internship had ended. Coping with her graduation project on one hand and working for Pieter van Huystee Film on the other, is one of the many examples why she is a talented production manager for the company.