Biography

Michiel van Oosterhout is a freelance journalist/documentary filmmaker active in East Africa since 2001. He was one of the founding members of the Amakula Kampala International Film Festival and has written scripts and directed more than twenty NGO video documentaries. The feature film Zamora, for which he wrote the script, won six awards at four different African film festivals and was shown at festivals all over the world. He has published several books with short stories. For the Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban Cascoland festivals he worked as a writer on the Cacoland catalogs.