Corinne van Egeraat

Corinne is an independent documentary filmmaker and producer. Her production company ZINDOC is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She regularly works together with her partner, Czech/Canadian filmmaker Petr Lom to make creative documentary films for broad international audiences, for cinema, film festivals and TV. 

Their latest production is hybrid documentary Myanmar Diaries by the anonymous Myanmar Film Collective (70 min, Berlinale 2022) – that so far won 12 International prizes among which the Oscar qualifying Berlinale Documentary Award and the Berlinale Amnesty International Award, the HRWFF London’s Tony Elliot Impact Award by Time Out, One World Prague’s Best Director in International Competition Award, the Movies That Matter Camera Justitia Award in the Netherlands and the Chantal Ackerman Prize at the Jerusalem IFF.

ZINDOC is currently making two feature length documentaries titled The Coriolis Effect: a cinematic poem about climate change and our world spinning out of control. The location for the film is Cape Verde; also known as the place where hurricanes are born. And We are the River, about the Whanganui River in New Zealand, the first river in the world to be given personhood rights.

Other documentaries produced include: Sad Film by the anonymous ‘Vasili’ (12 min, Venice Film Festival 2021) winner of DMZ South Korea’s Best Short Documentary Award, Letter to San Zaw Htway by Petr Lom (25 min, IDFA 2021), We are The River (15 min, DocEdge 2020), Angels on Diamond Street (75 min, IDFA 2019), Burma Storybook (80 min, IFFR 2017) and ANA ANA (IDFA 2013). 

ZINDOC regularly collaborates with Norwegian production company Ten Thousand Images, of Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas where Corinne is currently co-producing their documentary Bong Thom – the Brother, by Zaradasht Ahmed.