Stienette Bosklopper

Stienette Bosklopper is a Dutch, Oscar-nominated film producer and screenwriter based in Amsterdam. She is mostly known for producing Nanuk Leopold's films, including the award-winning film Cobain, and for producing the Academy Award and BAFTA-nominated short film Wander to Wonder. Bosklopper is the CEO of Dutch production company, which has been producing feature films for the national and international market since 1996.

Career

Bosklopper studied History between 1981 and 1985 at the University of Groningen. In 1985, she began working at the Dutch studio Nieuwe Gronden, as the assistant to film producer René Scholten. In 1990, Bosklopper joined Circe Films, a collective of young female filmmakers whose primary focus was creating television series for young audiences. From 1996 onwards, she became the owner of Circe Films and began working solely on feature films.
Between 2001 and 2006, she served as chair of the Netherlands Association of Feature Film Producers.
In 2008, Bosklopper co-authored a book titled The Film Producer: A Practical Handbook with Carolien Croon.

Filmography

Film

1987: De schoorsteenveger - first assistant director. Directed by Ron Termaat.
1995: Aletta Jacobs, het hoogste streven - producer. Directed by Nouchka van Brakel.
1997: Poldermol - producer. Directed by Erik de Goederen.
1998: De man met de hond - producer. Directed by Annette Apon.
2001: Îles flottantes - producer. Directed by Nanouk Leopold.
2002: Nachtbijter - producer. Directed by Chris W. Mitchell.
2003: The Rules of Flying - producer. Directed by Eugenie Jansen.
2005: Guernsey - producer. Directed by Nanouk Leopold.
2005: Dialoogoefening - producer. Directed by Esther Rots.
2005: Ruta del jaca - producer. Directed by Kris Kristinsson.
2007: Wolfsbergen - producer. Directed by Nanouk Leopold.
2008: Nowhere Man - co-producer. Directed by Patrice Toye.
2008: Calimucho - producer. Directed by Eugenie Jansen.
2009: The Happiest Girl in the World - co-producer. Directed by Radu Jude.
2009: Face - co-producer. Directed by Tsai Ming-liang.
2010: Heavenly Life on Earth - producer. Directed by Jesse de Jong.
2010: Brownian Movement - producer. Directed by Nanouk Leopold.
2011: Our Grand Despair - co-producer. Directed by Seyfi Teoman.
2012: Thursday Till Sunday - co-producer. Directed by Dominga Sotomayor.
2012: Hemel - producer. Directed by Sacha Polak.
2012: Everybody in Our Family - co-producer. Directed by Radu Jude.
2013: It's All So Quiet - producer. Directed by Nanouk Leopold.
2013: 82 Days in April - co-producer. Directed by Bart Van den Bempt.
2013: A Long Story - producer. Directed by Jorien van Nes.
2016: Waldstille - producer. Directed by Martijn Maria Smits.
2016: Everything We Always Had Was Now - producer. Directed by Martijn Maria Smits.
2017: Rey - co-producer. Directed by Niles Atallah.
2017: Do You Sometimes Feel Burned Out and Empty? - co-producer. Directed by Lola Randl.
2018: Time Share - co-producer. Directed by Sebastián Hofmann.
2018: Cobain - writer, producer. Directed by Nanouk Leopold.
2018: Too Late to Die Young - co-producer. Directed by Dominga Sotomayor.
2019: A Tale of Three Sisters - co-producer. Directed by Emin Alper.
2019: A Certain Kind of Silence - co-producer. Directed by Michal Hogenauer.
2022: Burning Days - co-producer. Directed by Emin Alper.
2023: Beraber - producer. Directed by Mete Gümürhan.
2023: Wander to Wonder - producer. Directed by Nina Gantz.
2024: Baby - producer. Directed by Marcelo Caetano.
2024: Three Days of Fish - producer. Directed by Peter Hoogendoorn.

Television

1993: Naarden Vesting - producer. Directed by Annette Apon.
1996: Het is de Schraapzucht, gentlemen - producer. Directed by Annette Apon.
2011: Days of Grass - producer. Directed by Tomas Kaan.
2011: Nina Satana - producer. Directed by Bram Schouw.
2012: Stockholm - producer. Directed by Eché Janga.
2012: Cabo - producer. Directed by Ivan Barbosa.
2013: Scooterdagen - producer. Directed by Léonie de Boer.
2013: Roffa - producer. Directed by Bobby Boermans.
2013: The Making of 'Boven is het Stil' - producer. Directed by Sabine Lubbe Bakker and Niels van Koevorden.
2022: Good Bad Girl - writer, producer. Directed by Mete Gümürhan.

Recognition

Bosklopper's films have received numerous accolades, including a BAFTA and Academy Award nominations for the short film Wander to Wonder, directed by Nina Gantz. The short has won 43 awards at international film festivals.
The feature film Cobain premiered at the 2018 Berlinale Film Festival and won several awards, including the Best Film Award at the 2018 Crossing Europe Film Festival and the Best Screenplay Awards at the 2018 Lecce European Film Festival.