Amanda van Hesteren (1991) graduated Cum Laude from her Audiovisual Arts program at LUCA School of Arts in Brussels with a semester at the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2019. 

Her first two short films were about her vacation loves in Thailand and Jamaica respectively, and have been regularly screened at various art festivals in the Netherlands and Belgium. Her graduation film Mama and me: yes but no/no but yes (2019) was co-produced by VPRO. 

In 2019 she had a solo exhibition at gallery ALMA SARIF in Brussels, and is currently preparing her second, which will take place next year at the Kunstverein in Hamburg. In 2021, she participated the IDFAcademy x NPO-fund workshop. Amanda's style is edgy, intimate and transparent. With her disarming gaze, she creates honest films in which she and her protagonists learn new things about the psyche of humanity and themselves. Currently she is creating her first feature length film with production company Halal and Dutch public broadcaster VPRO.