Marijke de Vos

(1959) studied theater sciences and attended the Rietveld art academie in Amsterdam. She researched the theatrical methods of Modern Ghanean Drama and the possibilities for theater as a communication tool in the slums of Accra. In 1989 she organised the Zwarte Sporen Festival (Black traces festival) in the Tropical Institution, about the influence of the Ghanean Annansi stories and the drum poetry in Surinam, the Antilles and the Netherlands. Since 1990 she is amongst others the compiler and co-ordinator of the CINEMA INDIA, which takes place in the theater of the Royal Institute for the Tropics. She is also responsible for the programming of two Indian film programs in the film museum of Amsterdam. She was involved in selecting a series of Indian films, recently shown by the televisionstation NPS. Marijke de Vos publishes and gives (guest) lectures on the Indian cinema. She made a selection of Dutch films for festivals in India and is a member of the selection committee of the Jan Vrijman Fund (IDFA). For three years now de Vos together with Leendert de Jong are responsible for the film programming for the Winternachten.
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