Heleen Gerritsen

Heleen Gerritsen (The Netherlands, 1978) studied Slavonic Languages and Economics in Amsterdam and St. Petersburg. She moved to Germany in 2003 where she completed a course in film production and started freelancing as a producer, mostly with a regional focus on Eastern Europe and the CIS countries. From 2014 to 2016 she was festival director of the European Documentary Film Festival dokumentART in Neubrandenburg. Since October 2017 Heleen is at the helm of goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, which is organized by the German Film Institute (DFF) in Wiesbaden.