Sven Peetoom

Sven Peetoom was born on Aug 26, 1993 in Rotterdam. Sven Peetoom's big-screen debut came with Uitgeroeid. directed by Perry Mulder in 2018. Sven Peetoom is known for Samoeraai directed by Sven Peetoom, Kyran Van Veen stars as Ivan and Marcelle Arriëns as Mother. Sven Peetoom has got 11 awards and 16 nominations so far. The most recent award Sven Peetoom achieved is Bucharest ShortCut Cinefest. The upcoming new movie Sven Peetoom plays is Samoeraai which will be released on Jan 25, 2019.

Sven Peetoom (1993) is an Indonesian-Dutch filmmaker from Rotterdam. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Film at Leiden University, Sven went to Denmark to attend the European Film College in 2017. There he studied Documentary Directing and after graduating received the Obel Scholarship for promising film students. In 2019 his fiction debut Samoeraai premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), which visited more than 20 festivals worldwide after which it got picked up by VOD platform Cinetree and ShortsTV. In that year he also won the Filmkick and the "Slag om de Schelde Pitch", with which he made the films Fietsvakantie and The Water May Rise. In 2020 he released Fietsvakantie and The Water May Rise and published his first web series Maus.