Michiel van Jaarsveld (1970) graduated from the Dutch Film Academy in 1992 as a writer/director/editor. After a start as a fiction film editor, he wrote and directed the television single play ‘Marrakech’ in 1996, which was nominated for a Golden Calf at The Netherlands Film Festival, and for the EBU Award Best TV script. In 2001 he directed his first feature ‘A Drift’, a coming of age drama. The film was selected for the festivals of San Sebastian, Toronto, and was awarded at some of the many other festivals. His short comedy ‘Tonino’ was nominated for a Golden Calf at The Netherlands Film Festival in 2002. In 2007 he directed the drama series ‘Stellenbosch’, shot in South Africa. It was nominated for a Golden Calf in the category TV Drama. In 2010 he directed the culinary telefilm ‘Köfte’, a pilot for a transmedial series ‘Restart’ (which was chosen as ‘most innovative new tv-program’) and the children’s short ‘Papa’s Tango’.