Judith Veenendaal
Because Of You
Hyundai
Judith Veenedaal burst onto the filmmaking scene in 2017, with the visual poetry and atmospheric beauty of her short film OSU winning her the Cannes Lions Young Director award. The daughter of sculpture artists, Judith grew up immersed in creativity and visual expression, going on to study graphic design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. She has also studied photography, dance, and theatre, with each of these elements combining and contributing to her unique ability to viscerally capture the emotion of a subject.
Self-described as a heavy heart in a light body, her work focuses upon the beauty of light, composition, surrealism and movement. Exploring intimate personal stories with an evocative style that gets under your skin and takes root in your senses. This style has also earned her the Creative Circle Commercial Director Award, as well as wins at Ciclope, Nederlands Film Festival, and a nomination for Vimeo’s Best of the Year 2020.