Margje de Koning

(Amsterdam, 1964) is a filmmaker and director of Movies That Matter. After finshing her Theatre and Film Studies, she made many documentaries for various broadcasters in The Netherlands and abroad. At Dutch national broadcaster IKON, she was responsible for the Television Department from 2005 and, from 2012, Head of TV, Radio and New Media. When IKON merged into national broadcaster EO in 2016, she was Commisioning Editor Documentaries there. In 2019, she became artistic director of Movies That Matter in The Hague, which screens human rights related films during the annual festival and many other events year-round. In the Writers Unlimited 2025 festival, she moderates a cross-over programme with literature and film.