Roel Nollet

Biography:

ROEL NOLLET is a documentary maker based in Antwerp, Belgium. Studied PHILOSOPHY and Took a postgraduating year in JOURNALISM in Brussels and was picked up as a videoreporter by production house Havana in 2005. Goes out every day since to do reporting work for television. Did that for regional station TV OOST and national stations VRT and VTM, as a journalist and documentary maker. HAD HIS WORKS BROADCASTED ON TV OOST, AVS, CANVAS, VRT, VTM, ABS-CBN, CBC, and AL JAZEERA, theaters in Belgium, the Philippines, Canada and the US. Roel founded the documentary makers collective REDHORSE in 2009, when he returned from shooting a documentary about political killings and disappearances in the Philippines, called TAXI FILIPPINO. This documentary was nominated for the ‘Concentra Award’, an international Award for ‘Outstanding videojournalism’.