Carine Bijlsma

Carine Bijlsma (1983) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker specialized in music documentaries. As the child of two classical musicians she grew up backstage with the camera as her instrument and music as her daily bread. She graduated from the Dutch Film and Television Academy in 2008, winning both the Wildcard Award and the Prins Bernard Culture Fund Award for her graduate film The Secret of Boccherini (2008), an intimate portrait of her father, the cellist Anner Bylsma. Since then she has been working back to back on music documentaries which have been shown at festivals around the globe. Her documentary about D'Angelo: Devil's Pie: D'Angelo (2019), premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2019, garnering rave reviews. Due to her background, her films give a true insight in a musicians life, with a rare intimacy that feels as if there is no camera present, giving a sincere look in the lives of the musician, their music, their struggles and their creative process. Apart from her work as a Documentary filmmaker, she works as a photographer. Her photographs have been printed in both magazines and album booklets, among which D'Angelo's "Black Messiah" (2014).