About

Emma van den Berg (1992) is a visual artist & documentary filmmaker, born and raised in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. For her bachelor degree she studied at the ‘Gerrit Rietveld Academie’ (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) in the Audio-Visual Department and did an exchange programme in the cinema department at ‘Ar.Co – Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual’ (Lisbon, Portugal). In the summer of 2018 she graduated with a video installation and short documentary film. The short film ‘Doei, stomme trut’ (Bye, silly tart) was screened at Nederlands Film Festival 2018, as part of the student competition and in the spring of 2019 it was broadcasted on Dutch television as part of the tv-programme ‘2doc – Makers van Morgen’, which focusses on upcoming documentary filmmaking talent.

In the summer of 2021 she finalised her master degree in Documentary Filmmaking at Goldsmiths, University of London. Since then her latest documentary ‘Why My Mum Loves Russell Crowe’ had its world premiere at Nederlands Film Festival in September 2022 followed by its international premiere at DOK Leipzig. Furthermore it travelled to various film festivals including Millenium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival in Poland and Dokufest in Prizren, Kosovo.

Currently, Emma lives in London and works at Goldsmiths, University of London in the Media, Communications & Cultural Studies department as a tutor in Film/TV editing, while working as a freelance editor and her own projects.