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Okki Poortvliet grew up in a small village in the north of the Netherlands. There she shot her graduation film in 2021 for Minerva art academy: IJswee (longing for ice). A film about how villagers, with a passion for skating on natural ice, deal with the increasingly warmer winters. After that, she made four short films for NTR. At the moment she is either studying Philosphy (at the university of Groningen), filming and researching for new projects (De Vlaggenhijsers & Into Nature), illustrating or spending time running around and trying to play the guitar.
Okki is interested in making all kinds of things, so she studied Illustration, Animation and Time Based Design. The result: films, animations, drawings, prints, installations and everything in between. It is also clear that she has a thing for birds and ice rinks.
contact
send me an email!okkifilms@gmail.com
awards
︎ Honorable Mention, IFA - Noordster 2022︎ Honorable Mention, Student World Impact Festival 2022
︎ Drentse Talentprijs Cultuur 2021
︎ Beste Groninger Film non-fictie 2021
︎ Film Winner, ARTS THREAD GLOBAL DESIGN GRADUATE SHOW 2021 in collaboration with Gucci
︎ Winner of the Lift-Off Global Network First-Time Filmmaker Sessions September 2021
nominations
︎ Beste Groninger Film non-fictie 2022
︎ Noorderlijk Film Festival - Best documentary 2021
︎ Noorderlijk Film Festival - Best young talent 2021
︎ Minerva Design Award 2021
work
︎ 2022 Teaching & Research Instructor at Minerva Art Academy︎ 2021/2022 Documentarymaker at Docwerk
︎2019 + Filmmaker, illustrator, visual artist
education
︎ 2020-now BA Philosophy, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen︎ 2017-2021 BA Design, Academie Minerva, Groningen
︎ 2011-2017 VWO, Carmel College Emmen
interships
︎ 2020 Ditteke Mensink, documentary director and writer
︎ 2020 GWA, Grafische Werkplaats Amsterdam
extra
︎ 2019 Illustratie57 Committee, PR
exhibitions
selectedupcoming
2023 Art Expedition Into Nature, Borger-Odoorn
past2022 De Vlaggenhijsers at Drents Museum, Assen
2022 Het huis van gedeelde verhalen, bevrijdingsfestival Assen
2021 IJswee solo exhibition, CBK Emmen
2021 Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven
2021 Lucht Kunstpunt, Groningen
2021 Artsthread Global Design Graduate Show 2021, online
2021 DETOUR Graduation Show, Groningen 2019 Panta Rhei, Forma Aktua & Grafiek Platform, Groningen
2019 Illustratie57 Barricades exhibition, Groningen
2019 Grafiek in de Kerk van Woltersum
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