cross country trains - the longer journey

Marit Weerheijm is a Dutch director based in Amsterdam. In 2016 she graduated as a director of fiction films from the Netherlands Film Academy with her short film, When Grey is a Colour. This film won the prestigious Student Academy Award, the Oscars for student films. Next to that, the film gathered two jury awards at TIFF Kids and won the CILECT prize for Best Graduation Film worldwide. With her film En Route she won a Golden Calf (the Dutch Oscar) at the 2019 Dutch Film Festival. This film had its International premiere at the 70th Berlinale, Berlin Film Festival 2020. Her latest film How Light Gets In (2021) was also nominated for the Golden Calf at the Dutch Film Festival in 2021. For commercial work she is represented by production company CZAR in Belgium, Quad in France and The Sweetshop in the US and the UK. Her film for breast cancer organization Pink Ribbon was nominated for the Young Director Award at Cannes Lions in 2019.