A Family

Mees Peijnenburg

Mees Peijnenburg, a Paris based director, is celebrated as one of biggest filmmaking talents to emerge from the Netherlands in recent years. Born in Tokyo in 1989, he studied at the European Film College in Denmark and graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy in 2013. Mees was twice nominated for a Crystal Bear at the Berlinale, Berlin Film Festival, for his short films A Hole in my Heart and Even Cowboys Get to Cry. The films traveled all around the world to numerous film festivals, winning over 50+ awards.?In 2016, he received the prestigious Dutch Directors’ Guild Award for A Hole in my Heart, awarded annually for the most remarkable directing performance of the year, and represented the Netherlands at the Academy Awards in the same year.