Chris Westendorp - Writer/Director Filmmaker

Chris Westendorp is a prize winning Amsterdam based screenwriter and documentary maker. If you watch Dutch television, you will most likely have seen one of Chris’s shows. She was head writer for many popular tv-series, such as Penoza, a series with five remakes in different countries, Seven Little Criminals and Santos.

For Seven Little Criminals and Santos she won the Golden Calf, the Dutch prize for best tv-series of the year.

She wrote a number of features, such as Confetti Harvest, Boys, Hemelrijken and Beraber. Her film Boys (co-written with Jaap Peter Enderlé) famously is now one of the 50 must see gay films.

Next to writing, Chris is also passionate about documentaries. She worked on the acclaimed documentary-series Debt Society and Class Rooms. She directed the documentary-series Hidden about unseen warfare between states and was selected for CannesSeriés 2024.

Chris has just finished another documentary called Queerkamp as co-director.

At the moment Chris is working on two features for the big screen and in January 2026 we will see the premier of her episode of the high action series, Alpha.

...this is her story