BIOGRAPHY

Mirjam van Veelen has an individual and independent vision in contemporary filmmaking with a style uniquely her own.
Originally educated as a visual artist she has transferred a painterly vision to an imaginative way of filmmaking.
Typical for her work is that she combines different film styles like fiction with animation or documentary with fiction as to be seen in her earlier films The River Okkervil, Aidaluli,The Leap and Beautiful Mali.
A returning theme in her work is how we interpret the many layered reality.

Van Veelen was one the first foreigners who co produced with the well known Lenfilm Studio's in Sint Petersburg. She arrived in Russia in1990, a year after the fall of the Wall in Berlin to realise her first feature film The River Okkervil with co director and co writer Beatrijs Hulskes. The River Okkervil is based on the same novel by the Russian writer Tatyana Tolstaya. Van Veelen and Hulskes lived three years in Sint Petersburg to realise their film.

In 1995 Van Veelen founded her own production company Mirfilm.
For Mirfilm she produced Beautiful Mali, Megumi and co produced Aidaluli. Van Veelen's films have been all premiered at the International Rotterdam Film Festival, are shown at many international film festivals, Museums of Modern Art and broadcasted on Dutch TV.