Geoffrey Enthoven
{{Short description|Belgian film director, screenwriter and film editor}}
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Geoffrey Enthoven is a Belgian film director, screenwriter, and film editor.
Early life and education
Geoffrey Enthoven was born in Wilrijk, Belgium.{{cn|date=March 2024}}
He graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent in 1999.{{cite web|url=http://www.tiburonfilmfestival.com/contactInfo.php?contact_id=13396|title=Geoffrey Enthoven|publisher=Tiburon International Film Festival|access-date=July 16, 2012|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183148/http://www.tiburonfilmfestival.com/contactInfo.php?contact_id=13396|url-status=dead}}
Career
Enthoven's first feature film, Children of Love was greeted with enthusiasm and not only won the Audience Award at the Flanders International Film Festival Ghent but also received a Special Mention at the International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg in Germany.{{cite web |url=http://www.flandersimage.com/browse-films/detail/enfants-de-lamour#tabAwards|title=Les enfants de l'amour|publisher=Flanders Image|access-date=July 16, 2012}}
His second film, The Only One, was named best Belgian film of 2006 by the Belgian Film Critics Association, winning the André Cavens Award.{{cite web |url=http://www.lalibre.be/culture/divers/article/324631/breves.html|title=Le réveillon du cinéma belge|work=La Libre Belgique|date=December 23, 2006|access-date=July 16, 2012|language=fr}}
Enthoven directed the 2020 eight-part mystery drama television series created by his cousin Marie Enthoven, Invisible, released internationally as Unseen.{{cite web | last=Pickard | first=Michael | title=Seeing is believing | website=Drama Quarterly | date=20 July 2013 | url=https://dramaquarterly.com/seeing-is-believing-2/ | access-date=21 March 2024}}{{cite web | last=Lennard | first=Dann | title=In 'Unseen', people are becoming invisible, but is it a gift or a curse? | website=SBS Tele3| date=24 March 2022 | url=https://www.sbs.com.au/whats-on/article/in-unseen-people-are-becoming-invisible-but-is-it-a-gift-or-a-curse/6vfq5li5d | access-date=21 March 2024}}
Filmography
- Children of Love (Les enfants de l'amour) (2002)
- The Only One (Vidange perdue) (2006)
- Happy Together (2008)
- The Over the Hill Band (Meisjes) (2009)
- Come as You Are (Hasta la Vista!) (2011)
- Halfway (Halfweg) (2014)
- Unseen (Invisible) (2020 TV series)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0258172}}
{{André Cavens Award 2001–2020}}
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Category:Belgian film directors
Category:21st-century Belgian screenwriters
Category:Belgian male screenwriters
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