Frederike Migom is a Brussels-based screenwriter and film director. She completed her education at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, before studying film at the école Superieure d'Etudes Cinématographiques in Paris.
Her feature debut Binti (2019) had its North-American premiere at the Sundance Film Festival 2020 and has since then been stringing together the awards and nominations, such as the Best European Youth Film in Berlin in 2020 and the Best International Children's Film at Cinekid in 2019, among many others.
Prior to Binti, Frederike's short film Nkosi Coiffure (2015) screened at festivals such as the Tribeca Film Festival and the BFI London Film Festival.
At the moment, Frederike is in post production for an episode for the mini-series Lockdown (2020) and the children’s documentary BOOS (2020). Lockdown is a ‘corona-proof’ series that tells twelve stand-alone stories with each time two characters, set in prison. BOOS is being developed within the Ket & Doc framework and takes place in a children’s psychiatric hospital.
Meanwhile she's also developing two feature projects, including the film adaptation of the successful novel Tegenwoordig heet iedereen Sorry (Everyone’s Sorry Nowadays) by Bart Moeyaert. Moeyaert has won many awards, including the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world's most prestigious award for children's literature, and his books have been translated into more than 20 languages.
Her feature debut Binti (2019) had its North-American premiere at the Sundance Film Festival 2020 and has since then been stringing together the awards and nominations, such as the Best European Youth Film in Berlin in 2020 and the Best International Children's Film at Cinekid in 2019, among many others.
Prior to Binti, Frederike's short film Nkosi Coiffure (2015) screened at festivals such as the Tribeca Film Festival and the BFI London Film Festival.
At the moment, Frederike is in post production for an episode for the mini-series Lockdown (2020) and the children’s documentary BOOS (2020). Lockdown is a ‘corona-proof’ series that tells twelve stand-alone stories with each time two characters, set in prison. BOOS is being developed within the Ket & Doc framework and takes place in a children’s psychiatric hospital.
Meanwhile she's also developing two feature projects, including the film adaptation of the successful novel Tegenwoordig heet iedereen Sorry (Everyone’s Sorry Nowadays) by Bart Moeyaert. Moeyaert has won many awards, including the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world's most prestigious award for children's literature, and his books have been translated into more than 20 languages.
