Jonathan is an award winning director and photographer working in fiction and advertising.
Jonathan has directed commercials for renowned production companies including The Corner Shop in Los Angeles, Blink in the UK, Markenfilm in Germany, Caviar in Belgium, 75 in Paris and Czar in the Netherlands. Over the last 20 years his work has harvested an array of advertising industry awards including a gold and bronze lions in Cannes, three Gold Lamps and a special jury prize for best director in the Netherlands. In Paris he was awarded the Prix de Strategies and was named best director at the Hit d’Or awards.
Before getting into advertising Jonathan directed a number of acclaimed television shows for Dutch national television including ‘Hertenkamp’, that won a ‘Premio Onda’ in Spain for best international comedy and a ‘Golden Kalf’ at the Dutch film festival for best television drama.
In 2020, during the covid lockdown, Jonathan returned to fiction in the Netherlands and directed the comedy feature film ‘Judeska In Da House’ with popular Dutch/Curaçao comedian Jandino Asporaat. Turning out to be one of the highest grossing films of the year, this film went on to win the ‘Golden Kalf’ audience award at the Dutch Film Festival in 2021.
In 2021 Jonathan directed ‘JOS’, a ten part television show written by award winning screenwriter Anne Barnhoorn (Aanmodderfakker) and produced by NLfilm for Dutch national broadcaster AVROTROS.
In 2020 he published his first photo book ‘Distant Cities’. And since 2022 he is a regular contributor to the weekend magazine of the Dutch newspaper ‘Het Parool’.
Commercial representation:
USA & UK: www.thecornershop.tv
The Netherlands: www.czar.nl
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