Michiel ten Horn

After Ten Horn's debut movie The deflowering of Eva van End, with its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival 2012, film magazine Variety listed Ten Horn as one of 'Ten European directors to watch'. Michiel ten Horn (1983) graduated in 2007 from the HKU, the University of the arts Utrecht, where he studied animation. As a student he already focused on live-action, but his animation background stayed active, in his storytelling and use of form. Recently, Michiel directed the first Dutch Netflix Original Series Ares. The show premiered in January 2020 and tells the story of an Amsterdam student who joins a secret society that has been around since the 17th century, the Dutch Golden Age, but must decide how far she is willing to go to rise up to the ranks. Michiel's debut film The Deflowering of Eva van End is a tragicomedy about the Van End family who, after the arrival of an impossibly perfect German exchange student, can no longer imagine how they ever managed to live with their imperfect selves. The film has been sold to 23 countries including USA, and went on to receive three Golden Calf nominations for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Music. At the same festival, the film won the Dutch Film Critics Award for Best Film of the Year and was honored with the Film Poster Award. His next film The Peter Pan man (Aanmodderfakker, 2014) was originally produced as a TV film but after it gloriously conquered the 2014 Netherlands Film Festival with six nominations (Best Music, Best Production-Design, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best Film), the network uniquely decided to give the film a theatrical run as well. Eventually the film won three Golden Calf Awards for Best Film, Best Actor and Best Screenplay. Currently, he is in preproduction for his next Dutch feature film Volgens de Overlevering and is attached to direct the German/ Canadian feature film Nightlife.