Harmen Jalvingh

Harmen Jalvingh is a (creative) producer of documentaries. He worked on more then 30 documentaries in the last 18 years, at international, national and regional level. He accompanied and counseled many filmmakers - experienced and starting - through the process of making their film. He worked for different production companies in the late nineties and the Dutch broadcaster VARA. From 2004-2014 he has been working as a creative producer for Bonanza Films and since 2014 he works for KeyDocs. Recently he worked on films as 'Parts of a Family' (2013), by Diego Gutierrez, awarded with a Golden Calf as best feature documentary, and 'FC Rwanda' (2013), that premiered at IDFA in 2013. He worked with Coco Schrijber on 'Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies' (2008), also awarded with a Golden Calf. Narrated by John Malkovich. Other recent films he worked on are 'The Price of Heaven' (2012, nominated for a Prix Europa), by Jack Janssen, 'The Potato Eaters' (2011), by Arno Hagers, 'Daughters of Malakeh', (2011) by Jet Homoet and Sharog Heshmat Manesh and 'Last Words' by Lieshout, Hagers and Van Brummelen, a film about and with Michel Houellebecq. Iggy Pop composed the music for his film, later to be released as the album 'Preliminaires'. Harmen is a jury-member of Shortcutz Amsterdam (a weekly platform for shorts) and is a national info provider co-productions for the EDN. Harmen graduated on the University of Groningen with a master's in New History and a specialization in film history.