Jacqueline van Vugt

Jacqueline van Vugt graduated as a Director of Photography from the Netherlands Film Academy and has since directed many award-winning documentaries. Her subjects have varied from Dutch soldiers in Bosnia and Herzegovina to the adventures of an extended circus family in Guatemala (Toda una vida), to Bosie, the poet and boyfriend of Oscar Wilde (Two Loves), for which she received the Dutch Academy Award. Her documentary 'Borders' depicts the actual Borders from West Africa to Europe. A story of power, hope and disillusions. The film received a Fipresci Award at the 2014 International Film Festival Krakow. Her latest film Refuge tells the story of three Afghan boys searching for their futures after their asylum status' are revoked in the Netherlands. It was in competition at the Netherlands Film Festival 2018. Jacqueline's fiction work runs parallel to her approach to documentaries. She knows how to find a scene and to depict the essence of human behavior under pressure. Van Vugt is extremely interested in the fictional world as a tone that enhances reality.