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I've been selected for the VIVA 400, a list of 400 young & successful Dutch women in 2011 by women's magazine VIVA. You can vote for me here at section 'creatief' untill November 15th

Come check out my visuals / VJ-ing during Cello8ctet, cello concert at Stadsshouwburg Oosterpoort Groningen November 1st at 21.00hrs. More info and tickets here.

Check out the videos I directed for INBO architects: video 1 en video 2

Friday Juli 22nd I will be a special guest at filmhouse Lantaarn Venster Rotterdam during the Eurogames.
At 17.00 hrs FAN will be screened, order your tickets here
At 19.30 hrs I will be interviewed by Hugo Bongers during the filmprogramme on Queerfilm, where I will also show Anna's Story and RACER.
More info at website of Lantaarn Venster

As a student, I payed my way trough art school by doing murals for people all over The Netherlands and abroad. Even though I am a full time filmmaker now, I still love doing commissioned work that fits with someones home & personality.
Would you also like a 'Real Genuine Eijsink' on your wall (inside or outside), ceiling, cupboard etc? Check my album and lets see what I can do for you! Special offers for people outside NL! :-)
Check out my album with 32 pictures!

The children at the BOE school in Amsterdam talk about the big step between kindergarten and primary school. Direction / camera / editing: Nienke Eijsink, check out the video!

I am looking for a professional cameraman /woman Teusday 5 Juli - check it out

>>>> Cucumber time! Check the NCRV pilot I created in 2009, with curent events completely up to date!

>>>>European Broadcasting Union used Racer at Eurovision Children's Documentary series as an example of a good way to interweave 2 storylines!

Right now, I am working as a camjo for Rockstart. Working as camjo often feels like being a Borg

>>>>Racer and Anna's Story will be screened at Bamfestival 2011 May 21st at the Rabotheater Hengelo. You can check it out here!

>>>>Norwegian Public Broadcaster NRK will broadcast Racer this week. I don't know when, since I don't understand their website, who speaks Norwegian?

>>>>Check out my interview with Australian 'Scene Magazine' about the Brisbane premiere of FAN on April 9th. Page 31 at Scene Magazine

>>>>The Australia Network has rerun FAN in 47 Asian countries including: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Cook Islands, East Timor, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kiribati, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, the Maldives, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia, Nauru, Nepal, New Caledonia, Niue, North Korea, Northern Marianas, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu en Vietnam. Thank you for your kind emails with your compliments!

>>>>Check out the pictures from the opening of the exhibition '10 jaar HomoHuwelijk' (10 years gay marriage).

>>>>REX magazine, the official alumni magazine for the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, published my one-day diary in 'A day in the life of Nienke Eijsink'. Check out page 1, page 2 and page 3.

>>>>1st of april 15hrs opening of the exhibition 10 jaar HomoHuwelijk (ten years of gay marriage) with my video's at Stopera, Waterlooplein 22 Amsterdam. Commissioned by Platform Buiten Kaders and Ihlia (international Gay and Lesbian Archives)

>>>>Between 24 Januari and 30 March the exhibition Monument of Pride with my video's about the Gay Monument Amsterdam can be seen again at OBA (Central library Amsterdam), commissioned by Ihlia (international Gay and Lesbian Archives)

>>>>Check out the pic's from the First Sandberg Alumni Exhibition, 20 March 2011, with RACER and FAN

>>>>FAN has been accepted at the Brisbane Queer Film festival, Australia, between 8-17 April 2011 Check out the site of the Brisbane Power House

>>>>10 March 11 hours NED3 at Z@PP AVRO the last rerun of my documentary RACER, about 12 year old Sophie who dreams of becoming a Formula1 racer.

>>>>My films are selected for the 1st Sandberg Alumni Exhibition! Opening: Sunday 20th March 16.00hrs KunstKapel, Prinses Irenestraat 19 Amsterdam

>>>>1st of March 11 hours NED3 at Z@PP AVRO a rerun of my latest documentary RACER, about 12 year old Sophie who dreams of becoming a Formula1 racer.

>>>>26 Feb at 17hrs at Queerscreen at the Sydney Mardi Gras my golden oldies short films Small Talk & Relationship Problems will be screened at the Queer Pet Project, Dendy Newtown, Sydney Australia

>>>>I was invited to write a documentary tip for the newsletter of Holland Doc; you can check it out here!

>>>>FAN will be rerun a couple of times during Valentines week 14-21 Februari at Holland Doc, where the theme is Grenzeloze Liefde (Long Distance Love). Check out the promo video here and another one here

>>>>This week I'll be working as a VJ at the VPRO Late Night talkshow at the International Film Festival Rotterdam!

>>>>FAN will screen at Bent Lenses Festival in Arc Cinema at the National Film and Sound Archive Canberra, Australia's capital city on thursday 2nd December 2010

>>>>Leading European lesbian site EurOut.org has chosen Anna's Story as video of the Week!

>>>>The EurOut magazine, by leading European lesbian site EurOut.org, is out now! Check my interview on page 25 onwards at! EurOut magazine

>>>>You can watch FAN on uitzending gemist (missed broadcastst online)

>>>> Check out the promo of FAN by NCRV Dokument

>>>>NCRV Dokument is going to rerun FAN on TV! This Friday the 26th of November 11.00 AM at NED 2. This is the same week as the broadcast of RACER, (Tuesday 11.05 AM Ned 3) what are the odds?
Check out the blog I wrote about Life After FAN!

>>>>FAN will screen at Tas pride Film Festival on wednesday the 3rd of November 2010 in Hobart, Tasmania (Australia)

>>>> Check out my interview about RACER in the VillaKrant in the back of the VPRO guide this week. Broadcast RACER tuesday 11.05 AM Z@PP (AVRO) NED3.

>>>>Feminist magazine LOVER wrote an article about FAN and art & culture policy.

>>>>Don't forget to set your DVD / VHS / Blu-ray / Harddisc recorders for the TV broadcast of RACER on the 23rd November 11.05 AM at Z@PP (AVRO) NED3 !

>>>>I have started directing the pilot of the comedy series Trooststraat 55, about street sweepers in The Hague in the eighties. Het Algemeen Dagblad publicized an article about the pilot.

>>>>I have a new studio: The Arts & Crafts Lab @ Damrak Amsterdam: a fancy doorman, great view of Amsterdam and an espresso machine. Such a shame I have to work as well!

>>>> Check out the blog I wrote about the VIVA 400!

>>>>Here it is, VIVA magazine with the VIVA 400, a list of 'the 400 most successful, smart, creative, upcoming and tough women under 38 in the Netherlands'. You can find me at
'creatives', page 49. Very proud to be part of this amazing group of inspiring women!

>>>>Check out the blog & video of the VIVA 400 diner with 400 inspiring women!

>>>>Check out the video for VIVA 400! but don't blink or you'll miss me (first picture in the film)!

>>>>This is the radio interview I did with FUNX FM about RACER.

>>>>Autosport.nl publicized an article about RACER

>>>>De ZijaanZij publicized an article about RACER, you can read it here.

>>>>The Twentsche Courant / Dagblad Tubantia publicized an article about RACER, you can read it here.

>>>>Het Hengelo's Weekblad publicized an article about RACER, you can read it here.

>>>>RACER was a great success at the Cinekid Festival, both screenings were sold out! Check the pictures of the premiere at Facebook.

>>>>RACER has been accepted by the Cinekid Festival in Amsterdam and will premiere on the 23rd of October 16hours at the Ketelhuis Cinema. On October 28th it will be screened again.
I will be attending both screenings for the Q&A.
Order your tickets trough the Cinekid Festival.
Please let me know if the film is sold out and you still want tickets, there might be an extra screening.

>>>>I am part of the VIVA 400, a list of 400 Dutch women under 38 who have achieved an outstanding accomplishment in the last year. You can buy the VIVA with the 400list in the last week of October.

>>>>RACER has done well with the broadcasters at the Eurovision Children's Documentary series 2009-2010 in Luzern (Switserland) and has been bought by all participating countries!
The youth documentary will be airing worldwide on RTE (Ireland), ZDF (Germany) , RTVSLO (Slovenia), HRT (Croatia), BNT (Bulgaria), ERTU (Egypt), CYBC (Cyprus), RAI (Italy), ERT (Greece), RTS (Serbia), TRT (Turkey), IBA (Israel), YLE (Finland), AVRO (Netherlands) and NHK (Japan)

>>>>FAN has been sold to the Australia Network of the ABC (Australian Broadcast Corporation) and will be broadcasted in Asia in October in the following countries:
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Cook Islands, East Timor, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kiribati, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, the Maldives, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia, Nauru, Nepal, New Caledonia, Niue, North Korea, Northern Marianas, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu en Vietnam.
For broadcast dates and times check: Australia Network.

>>>>In Sydney I was invited for lunch with the Dutch Consul-General of Australia and I loved every part of it. I loved the dressing up, loved my very nervous parents ('We never had lunch with an ambassador, and now our daughter is taking us'), loved talking about hagelslag (Dutch bread fillings) and worrying which knife or fork to use first.

>>>>Premiere FAN in Sydney was a huge succes, check out the pictures on facebook.

>>>>Anna's Storywill be shown in Filmhuis Bussum on September 16th.

>>>> The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney's major newspaper, printed an interview with Liz Burch and me about the upcoming premiere of FAN in Sydney! Check out the The Sydney Morning Herald.

>>>> FAN premieres in Sydney as the closing night film of Queerscreen,
the biggest gay and lesbian documentary festival in the world.
Thanks to sponsorship of the Dutch Consulate General I can attend this premiere and will do a Q&A afterwards together with Liz Burch!
Sydney here I come!
Sunday the 19th of September 19hours at Dendy Cinema Newtown.
Buy your tickets here!

>>>>Liz Burch has a new website. Check: www.lizburch.net on Liz' new passion; writing, and her adventures during the Dutch premiere of FAN.

>>>>check out the photo's of the premiere of FAN and Raven's Book in Barcelona, Spain!

>>>> FAN en Raven's Book will be shown at FIRE, the gay & lesbian film festival in Barcelona, Spain on the 1st and 5th of Juli.
The festival invited me over to do a Q&A...Barcelona, here I come!

>>>> Liz Burch HERSELF wrote an article about FAN and the premiere she attented in The Netherlands.
The article was published in Equity Magazine, a magazine for professionals from media entertainment en arts alliance.

>>>>For the Ramadan Festival I interviewed most of the political leaders of the Dutch parliament.
With Femke Halsema (GroenLinks), Jan Peter Balkenende (CDA), Job Cohen (PvdA), Alexander Pechtold (D'66) en Gerda Verburg (CDA).

>>>>RACER was very well recieved by the European Broadcasters in Luzern, Switzerland, during the Eurovision Children's Documentary series 2009-2010.
Executive producer Marion Creely writes: 'Racer was very highly regarded. The story was considered complex, uplifting and well told. The girl was well liked as a strong, but complex Role Model for our viewers. The style of the film, with its cinematic use of "the moving road/hospital corridor" imagery was much admired and the fast paced Style was felt very attractive to our audience. So well done to all and well done to the Director.'

>>>>Anna's Story will be shown at Make dox, the International festival of creative documentary films in Skopje, Macedonia on 5-11 June

>>>> You can follow me on Twitter @
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>>>>You can subscribe to my youtube channel at eyethink1977

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>>>> Would you like to be a fan of 'fan'? Click 'like' at my facebook page! Facebook Eyethink / Nienke Eijsink

>>>>RACER is finished! Check out the promo video! On april 19 the heads of TV of 15 European countries will watch this short documentary (and hopefully acquire it for their programming!) at the van Eurovision Childrens Documentary series 2009-2010 in Luzern, Switzerland.

>>>>Anna's Story will be screened on april 11 and 15 at the International Women's Film Festival in Seoul (Korea).

>>>>On april 7th Liz Burch (live from Australia!) and I will be on KRO Radio at 21.45uur en 22.15 uur

>>>>Anna's Story and FAN will be screened together on march 9th 17.30 hours at Cinema het Ketelhuis in Amsterdam as part of the Pink Filmdays.

>>>>FAN will be screened in Assen at The Festival Women films on march 7.

>>>> I have started working on Racer, a new youth documentary for broadcaster AVRO.
Racer has been funded by the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) and is part of the Eurovision Childrens Documentary series 2010 and will be broadcasted in several European countries in spring 2010.
The Documentary is about the 11 year old Sophie who wants to be a formula 1 racer when she grows up.
You can watch a promo video here.

>>>>Liz Burch and I just did a radio interview for SBS Australia about FAN, the interview is party in Dutch, Partly in English. Check out SBS radio.

>>>>FAN will be screened on Sunday the 17th of januari 19.15 hours at cinema Het Hoogt in Utrecht.

>>>>FAN will be screened twice at the Lesbian Festval in Nijmegen on Saturday the 16th of Januari at De Lindenberg (hall 21) Ridderstraat 23, Nijmegen.

>>>> My Short film Jane Bond from 2002 is part of Ten year One Minutes exhibition at Kunsthal Amersfoort.
The exhibition shows a selection of the best One Minute video's from 90 countries over the last decade. The exhibition runs from 27th of November until februari 14th 2010.

>>>>To my great surprise I have been nominated for lesbICOON (lesbian Icon) of the year 2009. Do you also consider me to be someone who distinguishes herself by the way she carries out her homosexuality and someone who paves the way for other lesbian women?
Until the 31st of December you can vote for me at www.lesbicoon.nl by clicking start enquete.

>>>>FAN will be screened at Cinema Rialto at the 21st of November 16.00 hours. Hanneke Groenteman will interview me afterwards.

>>>> My latest youth documentary Annas Story for broadcaster AVRO will be shown on TV at Z@PP Nederland3 on
- the 21st of November at 13.35 hours.
Annas Story is also selected for the IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam) and will be screened
- the 24th of November at 14.00 hours at Tuschinkski 5 and
- the 28th of November 14.00hours at Tuschinkski 5.
You can order your tickets here.

>>>>FAN The premiere of FAN was great! All four screenings in Utrecht were completely sold out!
Order tickets here to see FAN at the Netherlands Film Festival.

FAN is also showing in Rotterdam, Hengelo and Amstertdam (all places where I've lived)
>>>> Order tickets now for FAN (and Raven's Book) on 6 October at 19.30 in Lantaarn Venster Rotterdam, reservations: 010 - 2 77 22 77 I'll be there for the question and answer session after the film.

>>>>Order tickets now for FAN (and Raven's Book) on 10 October at 16.00 at Filmliga Hengelo (Rabotheater). I'll be there for the question and answer session after the film.

>>>> An extra screeening of FAN at the Rialto in Amsterdam on Saturday 14 November, 16.00, followed by an interview with Nienke Eijsink by Hanneke Groenteman. Reservations daily from 13.00, call: +31 20 6768700

>>>>The Netherlands Film Festival has arranged an extra screening of FAN; FAN for FANS. Liz Burch will be present for a Meet & Greet with Flying Doctor Fans! If you'd like to be there, mail me for details and reservations for the meet & greet.

>>>>Liz Burch, the actress from Flying Doctors and subject of my new film FAN, is coming to the Netherlands for the premiere!

>>>>My most recent documentary Anna's Story will premiere on Saturday 17 October 15.30 at the Cinekid Festival. After that, you can see this short youth documentary on Monday 19 October 16.00 at Ketelhuis 2 and at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)!

>>>> Voor het NCRV programma On Air heb ik een pilot item bedacht en gemaakt. Check out Komkommertijd.

>>>>Good news! The script Anna's Story that I wrote for Z@PP (AVRO) has been awarded a subsidy from the Dutch Cultural Broadcasting Fund! We've started filming and the documentary will premiere at the Cinekid Festival in Amsterdam. The TV premiere for Z@PP (AVRO) will follow.

>>>>I designed and directed the pilot for Evelien to the Rescue! for NCRV Mambapoint.