Paula van der Oest

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

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Place of Birth

Laag-Soeren, Gelderland, Netherlands

Paula van der Oest

Biography

Paula van der Oest (born 1965) is a Dutch film director and screenwriter. Her 2001 film Zus & Zo was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. With her final exam at the Dutch Film and Television Academy, Zinderend, she won a Cannon Award in 1988. In the following years, she worked as an assistant director, until she returned in 1994 as a director. For the VPRO-series Lolamoviola she made the short movies Coma and Achilles En Het Zebrapad (Achilles and the Zebracrossing). With the former, she won a Golden Calf for the best television drama. In 1996 van der Oest made her first long movie: De nieuwe moeder (The New Mothe...

Production

2002

Zus & Zo

as Director

2021

Love in a Bottle

as Screenplay

2021

Love in a Bottle

as Producer

2002

Moonlight

as Director

2011

2008

Tiramisu

as Director

1998

2012

2012

1996

Another Mother

as Director

1996

2014

Accused

as Director

2001

Roos en Rana

as Writer

2008

Wijster

as Director

2008

Tiramisu

as Writer

2022

Stromboli

as Writer

2022

Stromboli

as Producer

2016

Tonio

as Director

2004

Hidden Flaws

as Director

2017

Younger Days

as Director

2017

Younger Days

as Writer

2018

2020

2004

Madame Jeanette

as Director

2002

Zus & Zo

as Writer

2019

The Parts You Lose

as Executive Producer

2020

The Forgotten Battle

as Executive Producer

2021

Love in a Bottle

as Director

1994

1,000 Roses

as First Assistant Director

1990

Vigour

as Assistant Director

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