Isabella Depeweg

Producer Isabella Depeweg was born in 1996 to parents who were both filmmakers, Els Vandevorst and Wilfried Depeweg. She was briefly enrolled at the Netherlands Film Academy, before realising that a practical education in film producing was more to her liking. You can almost say she has grown into the business, being affected on her father as well as her mother’s side, as the two of them founded the company Isabella Films together.

Since February 2018 Isabella is equal partner in the company. She hopes to bring fresh and burgeoning energy to the prodigious reel. Isabella is actively seeking for undiscovered raw talent, and has so far produced short films with upcoming directors like Marc Wagenaar, Jonas Smulders and Gaite Jansen.

She also worked as a co-producer on award-winning film Quo Vadis, Aida? (Jasmila Žbanić), Cool Abdoul (Jonas Baeckeland) and Kaymak, the new film of Milcho Manchevski. Truly Naked will be her first film as a delegate producer.

Els Vandevorst

Producer Els Vandevorst was born in 1962 and graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam. She already booked tremendous success as a film student, when the graduation film Alaska (directed by Mike van Diem and produced by Els Vandevorst) won the Student Oscar. This jumpstarted her career, since when she has thrived.

Vandevorst loves working both in the Netherlands as well as internationally, having (co)produced movies for acclaimed directors such as Lars von Trier, Alexander Sokurov, Thomas Vinterberg, Martin Koolhoven, Stijn Coninx, Ineke Smits, Ágnes Kocsis and Christophe van Rompaey.

In 1997, Els Vandevorst and Wilfried Depeweg founded Isabella Films, a production company based in Amsterdam focussing on the production of feature films with high artistic value, commercial potential and international appeal.

After the artistic success of The South and Winter in Wartime plans for a new company were made. Els Vandevorst and director Martin Koolhoven founded N279 Entertainment in 2010 and are (co)producing feature films since, among which their last international film, Brimstone.

Susan Schoonwater

Susan Schoonwater was born in 1997 and was interested in film from a very young age. She obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Media Studies at the University of Utrecht, with a specialisation in Film. Afterwards she did a traineeship at the Programming Department of the Netherlands Film Festival, focussing on the Student Competition.

In 2021 she enrolled for the Master’s degree Documentary and Fiction at the University of Amsterdam, specializing in dramaturgy and research. During her Master she did an internship at Isabella Films. In 2023, she obtained her degree and continued her work at Isabella Films as a Production Coordinator.