Saskia Diesing

Saskia DIESING (1972, Netherlands) was educated in Audiovisual Media at the University of the Arts Utrecht (HKU), graduating in 1996. Afterwards, she worked for seven years as programme maker, compiler and editor-in-chief at VPRO. Her short TV film Du (2002) was selected for the Prix Europa. After this, she directed several short films and TV films. In 2014, her first feature film Nena premiered at the Nederlands Film Festival where she was awarded a Golden Calf for Best Direction. Besides her work as director and screenplay writer, she teaches Fiction Directing and Documentary at the faculty of Art Media and Technology at the HKU.