Willem Baptist


Willem Baptist is a Dutch filmmaker and documentary-director.
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Career

His documentary I’m Never Afraid! won a Golden Gate Award at San Francisco International Film Festival, Documentary Short Grand Jury Prize at Atlanta Film Festival, and a Kinderkast Jury award non-fiction at Cinekid Festival. His documentary Wild Boar had its international premieres in competition at respectively Visions du Réel, Hot Docs International Documentary Festival and AFI Docs.
In 2016 Imposible Magazine reported Baptist was shooting a feature documentary titled Instant Dreams in Berlin and California. Instant Dreams premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in 2017, where it competed in the First Appearance Competition and Dutch Documentary Competition. The European premiere was at Visions du Reel in Switserland. In the United States the film premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival. The film was subsequently released theatrically and on streaming platforms.
In 2018 The Saugatuck Center for the Arts, present the Midwest premiere of the Instant Dreams documentary at 7 p.m. Friday, October 19, and was a feature an on-site Polaroid portrait studio in the lobby.