Guillaume Vandenberghe (°1978) is a Belgian documentary filmmaker from Brussels.

He was trained in photography at KASK and then studied camera work at INSAS.

As a teenager, he met Vincent Coen when they played in a band together. They later went on to collaborate frequently. Their work emphasises personal stories, focusing on underrepresented voices and cultural narratives.

Their debut documentary CINÉMA INCH'ALLAH! (2012) was co-produced by RTBF/ARTE, Canvas, 2M and SRF. Their second film NOTHING IS FORGIVEN (2017) premiered at FIPADOC and has been sold in numerous countries.

Their most recent work is the documentary series Draw For Change!, a docu-animation series about female cartoonists. The series was screened at numerous festivals such as Visions du Réel and New York Documentary Film Festival (NY Doc) and was awarded the Best Documentary Series prize at Canneseries.

 

Photo: © Joke Floreal

Guillaume Vandenberghe

Info

Name
Guillaume Vandenberghe
Title
Documentary filmmaker
Country
Belgium
City
Brussels

Supported projects

Calling Gaza

  • Armed conflict
  • Human Rights
  • Migration

GAZA - Nadia AlHassanat was born in Gaza during the First Intifada. In her twenties, she fled her conservative family to pursue her dream of becoming an actress. Today, she has been living in Belgium for eight years. The only person she stayed in touch with by phone is her older sister Fatma, who remains in Gaza with her two children.

Draw for Change!

BRUSSELS - Journalist and writer Catherine Vuylsteke chronicled the life stories of Mar Maremoto, Ann Telnaes, Rachita Taneja, Doaa El-Adl, Victoria Lomasko and Amany Al-Ali, six women cartoonists from Mexico, the U.S., India, Egypt, Russia and Syria to whom the documentary series Draw for Change, recently awarded at Cannes, is dedicated.