ZIN Documentary produces creative documentary films on urgent social and political topics. We are driven by the need for creative storytelling in the service of movies that matter. Specializing in urgent stories that reflect our values of dedication to justice, we work from a deep place of humility and generosity seeing storytelling as form of love and friendship, an act of giving and sharing. Oue goal is ego-less filmmaking, that itself is a political act: collaboration without competition, made in the faith that cinema has a transformative power to enlarge our hearts and inspire us to embody our better selves.
Corinne van Egeraat (1966), Netherlands. Corinne is the producer and owner of ZINDOC. An independent filmmaker and creative producer with a background in theatre, she specializes in projects on creative freedom of expression. She lived and worked in Myanmar from 2013-2017 producing feature documentary Burma Storybook (2017), teaching film students at Myanmar’s first human rights film festival, running a documentary photography project, producing a book of photography and poetry with Dana Lixenberg, and organizing a country-wide outreach campaign for Burma Storybook. She is the producer of three films by the Myanmar Film Collective: the short documentary Sad Film (Venice Film Festival 2021), Letter to San Zaw Htway (2021) and the Berlinale Documentary Award winner Myanmar Diaries (2022). She is also the producer of Angels on Diamond Street (IDFA 2019). She is currently producing two feature documentaries about nature rights and climate change: The Coriolis Effect and I am the River, the River is Me; and co-producing Bong Thom – the Big Brother, with Norway’s Ten Thousand Images. She has also worked extensively in Egypt where, in 2011-12, she produced The Self-Portrait Video Project, a year-long workshop on autobiographical storytelling with young Egyptian artists, which culminated with the first collaborative feature documentary with her husband Petr Lom ANA ANA (“I am me” in Arabic) that was nominated for best film at IDFA 2014 and released in the cinemas in the Netherlands. Her director’s filmography: Lord of the Jungle (2000), Cowboys in Kosovo (2004), Speeding on the Virtual Highway ( 2007), Bridging the Gap (2008), Dislocated (2009), and ANA ANA (“I am me” in Arabic – 2013). She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS).
Petr Lom was born in Prague in 1968, grew up in Canada, and is now based in the Netherlands with his Dutch wife Corinne van Egeraat, working as an independent director, cameraman and editor. He received his Ph.D. in political philosophy from Harvard and was Associate Professor at George Soros’ Central European University in human rights and philosophy. In 2003, he became an independent documentary filmmaker specializing in human rights film. His award-winning films have been broadcast in over thirty countries and screened at more than three hundred film festivals around the world including Sundance, the Berlinale and IDFA. His feature length filmography: Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan (2004); On a Tightrope (2007), Letters to the President (2009); Back to the Square (2012), ANA ANA (“I am me” in Arabic – 2013), Burma Storybook (2017), for which he also wrote the accompanying book; Angels on Diamond Street (2019); and Letter to San Zaw Htway (2021). He was the editor and storytelling coach of SAD FILM (2021) and Berlinale Documentary Award winner, Myanmar Diaries (2022). He is currently in production on two feature documentaries: The Coriolis Effect & I am the River, the River is Me. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS).
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