Willem Baptist (1979) is a proffessional visual storyteller (aka filmmaker) based in Rotterdam – The Netherlands. He directs creative documentaries and fiction. He has writen for himself, sometimes for others and likes to produce and creativly consult as well at certain times. His work has been screened in competition at such festivals as IDFA, HotDocs, Rotterdam IFFR, Toronto TIFF, Karlovy Vary, BFI London, AFI Docs, Slamdance and many others. His acclaimed youth documentary I’M NEVER AFRAID! (2010) screened at 100+ film festivals worldwide and won 6 international awards including the KINDERKAST JURY AWARD at 25th Cinekid, GOLDEN GATE AWARD at 55th San Francisco International Film Festival and the Grand Jury Prize at 36th Atlanta Film Festival as well as nominated for Best Children Production by Institute for Sound & Image. His documentary WILD BOAR (2013) was shortlist nominated for a GOUDEN KALF at the Netherlands Film Festival, awarded at Visions Du Réel in Switserland and nominated at Karlovy Vary. He serves as advisor for the Dutch Cultural Media Fund, works as creative producer at Tangerine Tree and directs episodes of the IKON youth documentary series Mensjesrechten/Just Kids which was awarded a Cinekid GOLDEN KINDER KAST AWARD for Best Dutch Television production. His producers credits include Lifelong (feature film, dir. A. Ozge, 63th Berlin Film Festival) and Skatekeet (short, dir. E. Cook, 66th Berlin Film Festival). His writer credits include Young Wrestlers (feature, dir. M. Gumurhan, 66th Berlin Film Festival)