Sinan Can

(Netherlands, 1977) is a producer, investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker. Since 2011, Can has been making documentary series for BNNVARA. In Bloedbroeders (Blood Brothers) he investigates the Armenian genocide. In 2016, his triptych De Arabische Storm (The Arab Storm) about the consequences of the Arab Spring was released, as well as the series Onze missie in Afghanistan (Our Mission in Afghanistan). In 2017 he created the award-nominated diptych In het spoor van IS (Trail of IS) and in 2018 he portrayed the misery of jihadists' children in De verloren kinderen van het kalifaat (The Lost Children of the Caliphate). In 2022 the 4-part series Breuklijnen (Fault Lines) was broadcast, in which Can portrays problematic European neighbourhoods of Paris (Clichy), Brussels (Molenbeek), Stockholm (Rinkeby) and London (Tower Hamlets). January 2023 Dutch national TV network NPO1 broadcast Sinan op zoek naar het paradijs (Sinan's search for paradise), a four-part documentary series he made together with Thomas Blom. Besides his TV work, Sinan writes background stories and books to accompany his series (such as Bloedbroeders and De Arabische storm).