Nanouk Leopold

Nanouk LEOPOLD (1968, Netherlands) is a filmmaker, screenwriter and theatre director. She was born in Rotterdam and trained in directing at the Netherlands Film Academy. She won the Tuschinski Award for her graduation film Weekend (1998) as well as the Kodak Award at the Munich Film Festival. Her feature debut Îles flottantes was nominated for a Tiger Award at IFFR in 2001. In collaboration with visual artist Daan Emmen, she started Beeldcollectief Leopold Emmen, which led to the installation Close-up (2009). It’s All So Quiet, based on the novel by Gerbrand Bakker, was the opening film of the Panorama Special programme in Berlin in 2013 and won several international awards. Leopold’s sixth feature Cobain (2018) had its world premiere at the Berlinale, where it was nominated for a Crystal Bear. The film was also nominated for five Golden Calfs at the Netherlands Film Festival, and won two. She made her debut as a theatre director for International Theatre Amsterdam in 2017, with an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s From the Life of the Marionettes. In 2019, she directed Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming.

Filmography

Fishy (1994, short), F 100,- (1995, short), Anna (1996, short), Marseille 1-2 (1998, short), Weekend (1998), Max Lupa (1999, TV short), Îles flottantes (2001), Guernsey (2005), Wolfsbergen (2007), Het Atelier (2008, instal, co-dir), Huis Clos (2008, instal, co-dir), Close-up (2009, instal, co-dir), Sandra/Charlotte (2009, instal, co-dir), Prefab (2009, instal, co-dir), Brownian Movement (2010), He Who Travels/TRAVERSE [part 1] (2011, instal, co-dir), Emoticon (2011, instal, co-dir), In the Company of Bears (2011, instal, co-dir), Freetown/Reconstructie (2012, instal, co-dir), Boven is het stil/It’s All So Quiet (2013), Surrounded by Sagacity (2015, instal, co-dir), Study of a Portrait (2016, instal, co-dir), Cobain (2018), What have you done with the Scissors? (2020, instal, co-dir)

More info:
Wikipedia, Nanouk Leopold
Beeldcollectief Leopold Emmen