Office
Ineke Smits
Ineke Smits is a filmmaker, whose fiction- and documentary films are screened at international film festivals such as IDFA, San Sebastian FF, DOKLeipzig and Toronto. At the Tbilisi-based film production company Nushi Film she is development producer. She conducts workshops, is a lecturer and a project coach both in Georgia, Ukraine and The Netherlands. Ineke advises national and international funds, such as HBF, Creative Europe, ESFUF and NPO-Fund. She lives and works in The Netherlands and Georgia.
ineke@gogofilm.eu
Board
Jos van der Ploeg
Jos van der Ploeg (chair) began his career in the 1980s as staff member for Pop and Jazz at the Rotterdam Art Foundation. He wrote the policy memorandum Visual Arts in Rotterdam and was one of the initiators of Witte de With, now art institution Melly. He was press officer and project manager of advisory reports at the Arts Council and PA at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of the Director General of Culture and Media. Until his retirement, he was involved as secretary and project leader in many departmental and interdepartmental projects, including on good governance in education and the future of data sharing.
Colette Bothof
Colette Bothof (board member) is a concept developer, screenwriter and director of film-, television- and cross-media productions. Her films and series screened at major international festivals and networks. She won a Panorama Award at the Berlinale, the Europrix Top Talent Award and the Golden Calf at the Dutch Film Festival. She headed the Directing department of the Dutch Film Academy, was board member of both the Dutch Directors' Guild and VEVAM and currently lectures in the creative industry and as an advisor for various media and art funds.
Mark Duursma
Journalist Mark Duursma (board member) began his writing career with a love of film. He was editor-in-chief of monthly magazine de Filmkrant and a film critic for daily paper Trouw before moving to NRC, a leading newspaper in The Netherlands. There, he covered photography at the culture desk, education at the domestic desk and transport at the economy desk. He was also deputy head of the domestic desk and head of the media desk. Now he's a foreign editor with the portfolio Central and Eastern Europe/Germany and an interest in Ukraine and the Caucasus. He's a lover of Europe, from Tallinn to Tirana and from Trier to Tbilisi. He also still loves film.
Margje de Koning
For 12 years Margje de Koning (board member) directed documentaries and taught at the University of Amsterdam, before taking up her position as a commissioning editor for documentaries at EO (the Dutch Public Broadcasting Company) during 17 years. She subsequently was promoted to Head of TV, Radio, and New Media programming at IKON. She later continued her career as artistic director of the Movies that Matter Film Festival in The Hague. Margje participates in juries and panels, and moderates (pitching) sessions in the film industry. She is a voting member of Dutch Academy For Film, European Film Academy, and The Academy (Oscars).