Jury Best Dutch Series Competition

The Best Dutch Series Jury Award rewards the best Dutch episodic productions that have aired since the last festival. A record number of 18 series were selected in two separate categories: Best Dutch Fiction Series and Best Dutch Non-Fiction Series. For each production, three episodes had to be submitted. For the Fiction Series competition, these had to be three chronologically linked episodes. For Non-Fiction, the participant could choose freely which three episodes to submit. A jury of five experts from the world of children’s television watches all the submitted episodes and chooses one winning series for each category. The production companies of the recipients of the Best Dutch Fiction Series and the Best Dutch Non-Fiction Series Jury Awards are rewarded with a Cinekid Lion statuette.

Harry van Rijthoven

After attending the ArtEZ School of Acting in Arnhem, Harry worked as an actor in theatre, cinema and on television for over 40 years. He played parts in the popular daily youth programme The Apple Core for 20 years. Other television productions include Dr. Krankenstein and Tita Tovenaar. He also acted in films such as Monkey Business and Winky’s Horse, and has a small part in Captain Nova, the opening film at Cinekid this year.

David Cocheret

As a child, David spent most of his time watching movies on television. His family really worried what would become of him but, by the age of 12, David already knew he wanted to make movies and all this time he had merely been preparing. Fast forward to 2021. David is an all-round film director with wide-ranging experience in film, television and online. Recent work includes productions such as War Stories, The Ludwigs and De Slet van 6VWO. Currently, he is showrunner for Spangas: The Campus, the longest running youth drama series on Dutch television.

Janneke Niessen

Founding partner at CapitalT, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, board member and diversity advocate. She has started and left two international technology companies, is a board member at several organizations and regularly speaks at international events. As the co-initiator of InspiringFifty – an initiative to increase diversity in technology by raising the visibility of female role models – Janneke published ‘The New Girl Code’ to inspire young girls to pursue careers in technology. She was named one of Harper’s Bazaar’s Women of the Year, Most Innovative Leader and EY Entrepreneur of the Year.

Malou de Roy van Zuydewijn

Malou graduate from the HKU Writing for Performance programme and loves writing with and for children. She sets up her writing room at schools and immortalises the wealth of stories she hears there in plays, prose, podcasts and immersive experiences for kids. With a background as a primary school teacher and a master in community arts, Malou adds her artistic skills to places where her work can bring extra value. Malou has written drama for youth theatre companies such as Het Laagland, Toneelmakerij, STIP theatre Productions and Bontehond.

Marloes den Hoed

Marloes coordinates all the educational programmes at LantarenVenster, a six-screen arthouse cinema and jazz venue in Rotterdam. Volunteering at a small cinema sparked her love of cinema when she was only 16. Marloes studied film at the University of Amsterdam, followed by a MA programme on the preservation and presentation of moving images. Marloes has worked for film festivals such as Movies that Matter, IDFA and Pluk de Nacht. In her role at LantarenVenster, she aspires to create the cinema audience of the future by acquainting younger audiences with arthouse cinema.