Ruud Satijn

Ruud Satijn was born on December 17, 1970 in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. He is the son of cellist Anton Satijn. After graduating from High School, he moves to Texas where he works on a farm and travels around the country. A year later Ruud starts the HBO school Audio Visual Production in Sittard. The educational program is not outstanding, but there he teams up with a group of people that find their friendship in the love for film. Together they shoot their first short films on video. Among these people are Martin Koolhoven and Frank van den Eeden. With these two, Satijn moves to the Filmschool Sint Lucas in Brussels, to return to Holland after a year. Finally in Amsterdam Satijn goes to the Dutch Filmacademy. He first produces Koolhoven's first 16mm film Chess, but then teams up with Kim van Kooten who writes his first 35mm short Nighthawks. It is his first film as a director at the 1994 Dutch Filmfestival in Utrecht. Satijn moves on to work for the VPRO on Villa Achterwerk and graduates with the Scarlet Seduction from Filmschool in 1997. After graduating, he focuses on writing first. He also directs commercials and briefly works as a copywriter for websites. After directing several short films, Ruud now works on his debut feature film Windy Point.