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Dutch filmmaker Chiel Aldershoff was born in 1973 in Amsterdam. After studying psychology for 2 years he turned to film. In 2000 he graduated from the College of Arts in Utrecht as a documentary director. Since then he has been working as a freelance director and editor for documentaries, television programmes and multi-platform commissioned works.

Chiel has worked with NCRV, VPRO, NPS, RVU, BOS, Joodse Omroep, AVRO, KRO, SBS6, RTL, Omroep Flevoland and AT5. His works have shown at numerous international film festivals around the world. His aim is to provoke discussion through depicting universal themes from an unusual perspective. On the one hand, he focuses on ordinary people and magnifies everyday moments which can easily go unnoticed. On the other hand, he chooses to portray more extreme and often misunderstood characters, with an alternative outlook on life.

trackrecord
In 2003 he won the scriptwriter contest produced by ‘Taskforce elderly and work’ and NCRV Dokument with “Race against the clock†. This documentary premiered at IDFA 2004. In 2006 he made “JR Expo 2 rue” about a street artist in Paris for VPRO. This film showed on DocNZ, Docupolis Barcelona and ROTL Film Festival Berlin in 2007. For director Sarah Domogola he edited “Moon and the Wolfgirl“. This short children’s documentary showed at Cinekid 2007 and IDFA 2007. "The Big Enjoyment"(NCRV Dokument) showed at The Dutch Filmfestival 2009 and his short film "Let me go home" about a young girl in prison was presented at IDFA 2009 and Cinekid 2010. He also worked as a consulting editor on the feature documentary “Girl with Black Balloons†from Corinne van der Borch which won 'Best of the Fest' at the Edingburgh Filmfestival 2010 and received the 'Grand Jury Price' at DOC NYC 2011. Chiel is currently in the development stage of several new documentaries.

Commissioned Works
Chiel has worked for ING, Rabobank, Getronics PinkRoccade, Dutchview, TUI, UltrAlert, Dutch Chamber of Commerce, Canon, Cayenne Communications, Sail Amsterdam, UPC, Microsoft, TMF, Cameo Media, Plan Nederland, National Youth Council, Artists&CO, InterArt Foundation, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Image and Sound Museum, National Museum from musical clock to pierement, Tylers Museum, Frans Hals Museum, Media Fund, IDFA, STRP Festival, STIP Theater Productions, Diversion, Municipality of Amsterdam, NS, Catharsis Productions, Foundation further in Balance, Bio Child Rehabilitation, Taskforce Elderly and Work, Stetz, Abrahami-Netz Productions, JingleHell, Metropolis Film, Zuis, SuopuLab, Sugar Mountain Productions and Stichting ACCU.