Coco Schrijber

Coco Schrijber is an extremely cinematic filmmaker. Her imagination and her film instinct which are so obviously present in her films, always using unexpected angles with which she approaches every subject, tipping it over and over. Her unbridled imagination results in sometimes worrying stories that turn the viewer into an uneasy voyeur. Her debut feature First Kill about one's addiction to killing was selected for The IDFA Feature Length Competition 2001. It won the Dutch Press Award and the Audience Award at IFF Kosovo. Her 2nd feature Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies about boredom, starring John Malkovich, won 6 international awards, the Golden Calf Grand Prize of The Netherlands and was the official entry for the Oscars 2008. How To Meet A Mermaid (2016) is presently nominated for the IDFA 2016 EDA Award for Best Female-Directed Feature Length Documentary and competing in The IDFA International Feature Length Competition.