Adrian Bol

Adrian Bol is an award-winning Dutch director/screenwriter. "I love doing work that connects with our humanity, inspires visually, and stirs emotionally, finding the cues that make us feel, trust and believe in something that we know is make-believe. I try to find the realness in things, allowing the beauty in people to come through". Filmmaking got a hold of him during his first year at the prestigious Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Art in Amsterdam: he painted but also experimented with film - and his work got him noticed. A production company offered him a job as director, and he left school to take the opportunity. While he continued to paint, from then on he focused on filmmaking. Adrian's rapidly built skill set resulted in his first feature film CASTINGX, a dark voyage into voyeurism, seduction and revenge that premiered at the Dutch Film Festival and was reviewed by Luc de Rooy as 'an outline of a future masterpiece'. His short film SWEET BETTY was the result of a collaboration with Robby Muller and Rutger Hauer at the Rotterdam Film Factory. It was shown at the International Rotterdam Film Festival. His second feature BLINDSPOT, which won multiple awards internationally, was also a psychological thriller. It's difficult to pinpoint for Adrian why he prefers this genre, but this fascination is not just about the suspense or the action, he says: "It's actually more important that the characters get under your skin; there has to be a development there. In the protagonists themselves, and in their relationships too." In 2019 Bol directed and wrote his first international feature LEGACY OF LIES, starring Scott Adkins, Yuliia Sobol and Martin McDougall. The film features Martin Baxter, an ex-MI6 agent, who is thrown back into the world of espionage and high stakes when a beautiful young Ukrainian journalist, seeks his help uncovering the shocking truth about operations conducted by the Rusian Secret Service.