User:Renee Scheltema/sandbox

About Renée Scheltema:

Renée Scheltema is an independent documentary Filmmaker, producer, & investigative journalist.

She has worked for Dutch Television as a Director, Producer and as a Camera-person.

Renée is also a Criminologist from the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. She is ambassador for Ecocide Law. Renée is the Founder of The New Normal Foundation, with 501 C3 status in the US and ANBI status in The Netherlands and the USA

As a professional Photographer, Renée has worked for Magazines and Newspapers in Holland, the US, and South Africa. She was a member of Gamma Liaison in New York, now called Getty Images.

Degrees:
 * Bachelor at Law, Leiden University, Netherlands
 * Drs. Criminology, Leiden University, Netherlands
 * M.A. University of California, Berkeley, USA, TV-Journalism & Photo-Journalism.

http://www.ReneeScheltema.com

Renée has worked for Dutch television as a Director, Producer and Camera-person for 35 years. Some of her documentaries, aired on TV:

-"Normal Is Over The Movie”(2015-2019), a unique award-winning feature documentary on various solutions to reverse global decline. This film has been distributed worldwide: https://normalisover.org

-“Something Unknown Is Doing We Don’t Know What” in 2009. Award-winning documentary feature documentary about the science of psychic experiences (105 min), which has been distributed worldwide, and aired on Dutch TV .www.SomethingUnknown.com

-"Canvas Extreme", A 7 x 26' min. documentary series of portraits of "cutting-edge" South-African visual artists. (2000). Director/Producer/camera/editing. One-woman crew. Sold to TV stations in Spain, Mexico, France, Switzerland, The Netherlands.

- “A Pleasant Conversation”, portrait of Nicolaas Pierson. Director, camera, sound. BOS TV. (2007) https://www.uitzendinggemist.net/aflevering/14885/Nicolaas_Pierson_Een_Prettig_Gesprek.html - “Hush, A Portrait of Tracy Payne” Official selection at the Asolo Art Film Festival in Italy. Official selection for the International Festival of Women Directors' Films in (Paris) France. Sold to TV stations in Spain, Mexico, Holland, Switserland, and France. ”(2001).

- “Seven Days in Burma”, Official selection at the Donostia Festival (Spain). Sold to NCRV-TV, and TV stations in Australia, Singapore, Belgium, Hong-Kong, South-Africa, Germany (1988)

-“A Portrait of a Zen Couple”, Aired on BOS. TV(Co-prod/ Direc/Cam/Edit). Selected at The European TV Festival of Religious Programs (Norway) (2006)

- “Happy in Zimbabwe). With Tibetan Lama Akong Tulku Rinpoche (1939-2013) in Zimbabwe.Dutch TV: (2004)

-“ The Bus”, Teaching children in the township the value of nature. With The National Botanical Institute of South Africa, WWF-Table Mountain Fund, Cape Town City Council, and the Botanical Society of South Africa. (2002)

- "The Death Penalty". Official selection for the Film Festival in Monte Carlo; Director and co-production with Amnesty International and NCRV-TV. (1984) - “Dissidents in Moscow”. Dutch TV, NRCR (1980). “ China after Mao” Dutch TV, NRCR, Historical value about the new China and Capitalist Communism. (1979). -“A socio-economic portret of Egypt (1978) NOS TV - “Cystic Fibrosis, an incurable disease?” Tros-TV (1979), - “Workoholics”, Avro-TV(1981), - “Amnesty in Action”) assigned by Amnesty International. (1981) - Series on the Environment for HV-TV, 13 x 5 min.(1982) - “De Smaak van Water”, Assistant-Director to Orlov Seunke - “Nepal a Paradise Lost?”, Socutera TV, Ncrv-tv; (1983) - “Youth Vandalism”, Socutera TV, (1984) - “Back to Terror”; Documentary portraits of children from ex-refugees in Chili. Ikon TV (1985). Renée filmed as one-woman-crew, during the Pinochet regime. - “La Voz de la Selva”, Portrait of a radio station in the jungle of Equador, defending the rights of indigenous Indians against big oil (1986). SNV and Socutera TV. - “Future Prospects": Assistant-Director to Erik Van Zuylen's feature film. VPRO-TV and theatre-outlets. (1981) - Panoramiek, N.O.S. Television (1978). TV-reporter at International Affairs Programme (subjects: Eritraea, Mauretania, Pakistan, Egypt, and European Parliament).