Marieke Dermul is a documentary filmmaker and director.

She has produced several TV formats and documentaries (Pride is Protest!, No Filter, ...) for Eén and Canvas. In her audiovisual work, she deals with the most sensitive themes in a profound and layered way. By working in an intimate setting, she is able to put her characters so at ease that their stories finally dare to occupy space.

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Name
Marieke Dermul
Expertise
digital storytelling
Country
Belgium
City
Gent
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Supported projects

Rainbow Nation

  • Equality
  • Human Rights
  • Security

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa, the queer paradise, or at least that is what is said. We know the images of the annual Pride in Johannesburg. As such, South Africa is the only country on the entire African continent in which LGBTQIA+ persons have equal rights, and can also marry. Only: the contrast between the constitution and daily reality is stark.

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Pride is Protest!

  • Human Rights
  • Equality

NEW YORK - The documentary 'Pride is Protest' offers an insight into the LGBTQ scene in New York, 50 years after Stonewall. Marieke Dermul and Filip Tielens went to New York for a week in June 2019 during the biggest Pride ever. They talked to a veteran of the 1969 riots about positive changes, but also to young LGBT people, transgenders and people of colour about discrimination in the year 2019. What do they think should be fought for today? And how does that translate into contemporary activism and protest, besides the great party that a Pride is every time again?

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