Astrid Bussink

Astrid Bussink is a Dutch filmmaker. Her debut film is the documentary The Angelmakers.

Biography

She studied fine art at the Academy of fine Arts, AKI, Enschede in the Netherlands and her Master in film at the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland.
During this Master she shot her award-winning documentary The Angelmakers.
After this she made the short films Rückenlage / Upside Down, The 9 lives of my car and I shot the mayor .
Bussink lives and works in Amsterdam where she made her feature-length documentary , screened in 2008. She made a personal documentary, , about the Enschede fireworks disaster that happened 13 May 2000, in which 23 people died, nearly 1000 were injured and many houses were destroyed, including Bussink's house. 'My Enschede' premiered at the International [Film Festival Rotterdam] in January 2010.
During her artist in residency program in New York she started her photography project Constructions of Happiness, which she showed in galleries in New York, Edinburgh and Amsterdam.
In September 2012 her documentary premiered at the Netherlands Film Festival.

At the 2008 ZagrebDox, she won Best Young Director for The Angelmakers.
At the 2012 Edinburgh International Film Festival, she was nominated for Best International Short Film for Mr and Mrs Gunya.
At the 2013 Nyon Visions du Réel, she won Special Mention for Medium-Length Film for Poule des doods.
At the 2017 International [Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam], IDFA, she won the Special Juryprize for her documentary LISTEN about 'De Kindertelefoon'.