Peet Gelderblom is an award winning filmmaker and all-round creative from the Netherlands with a wide experience in documentaries, drama, television, video essays, commercials, music videos and online content. He’s a cinematic storyteller and conceptual thinker, an empathic listener and a reliable force on any set, big or small. With his fluid style and keen sense of communication, he excels at giving each project the ideal look and feel.

Audiovisual media can take any shape or form. Peet’s expertise in multiple genres – scripted and non-scripted, highly original or fiercely transformative, from guerilla style production to high-end – often leads to surprising hybrid solutions. Every film gets a custom job, tailored to perfection.

Peet knows how to tell a story lightly with humor and musicality, but also how to properly treat sensitive subjects like sexual violence, failed justice, bullying, psychosocial problems, palliative care or the challenges of modern agriculture. He believes good teamwork happens when all members operate as one and never loses sight of the audience. If the project calls for it, he loves to use elaborate techniques like CGI, robotized camera movements, miniature cinematography or VR.

This Fall

Two companion films of his will see the light of day in 2026: BEAUTY SURROUNDS YOU, a feature-length documentary about landscape through the eyes of visual artist Saskia Boelsums and the Old Masters, and FROM VINCENT TO VAN GOGH, a documentary short about Van Gogh’s lone, formative journey through Drenthe.

Films

Peet’s archival fiction feature WHEN FOREVER DIES (“A thousand films in one”–De Volkskrant) is a groundbreaking transformative work that proved itself a crowd-pleaser by winning the Audience Award at CineAutopsia. Cleverly assembled from fragments of both classic and forgotten movies – most of them found in the EYE Filmmuseum archives – it tells the story of two shapeshifting lovers trapped by their own perceptions. The film was officially selected by Il Cinema Ritrovato, Thessaloniki, Film Fest Ghent and the Netherlands Film Festival. The soundtrack (co-composed by Peet) has been nominated for a Buma Award. WHEN FOREVER DIES is available on VOD via Eye Film Player and Vimeo On Demand.

In 2016, Peet’s re-cut of Brian De Palma’s RAISING CAIN became the first fan edit ever to be crowned official Director’s Cut. The re-cut was so much to De Palma’s liking that he let Peet supervise a restoration for an internationally praised Blu-ray release, nominated for a Saturn Award.

OUT OF SYNC, his short fiction film starring Romijn Conen, Marieke de Kruijf and Beau van Erven Dorens, screened at numerous festivals worldwide, received an award in Milan and was elected Vimeo Staff Pick.

Commercials & Branded Content

His commercial portfolio includes work for clients like Google, KPN, Philips, Schiphol Airport, André Rieu, Universal Pictures, TomTom, Samsung, Spotify, Old Amsterdam, AfterPay, Kijkwijzer, Autodrop, Buienradar, Mora, Crystal Clear, Bosch, Canon, Maaslander, Sportlife, Bang & Olufsen, Shoeby and Hunkemöller.

THE ROAD TO CHANGE for Rabobank received two Golden Heron awards for Creativity and Innovation and Best Film of the Year. According to the jury: “The visuals, music and acting are top notch and a sign of workmanship.”  SCREWED for Bloemen.nl made it onto the shortlists of the ADCN and the Young Directors Award in Cannes. Peet won the Socutera Award for a public announcement for the Dutch Brain Disease Foundation in 2007.

Broadcast & Streaming

For Amazon Prime Video he directed the 6-part true crime documentary, PACT WITH THE DEVIL, which almost immediately jumped to the #1 spot in the Netherlands. It chronicles the longest-running liquidation trial in Dutch history and interrogates nearly all the main players: lawyers, criminals, prosecutors, crime journalists, judges, heads of police and the Dutch Minister of Justice. The series has been praised as “courtroom TV with Shakespearean allure.”

Peet’s work for broadcast and streaming includes documentaries, drama, programs, leaders, promos and press presentations for nearly every Dutch public and commercial tv-channel. He worked with talent as diverse as Ruby Wax, Beau van Erven Dorens, Sophie Hilbrand, Tim Hofman, Art Rooijakkers, Waldemar Torenstra, Johnny de Mol, Geraldine Kemper, Lauren Verster, Katja Schuurman, Tim Haars, Fred van Leer, Cornald Maas, Bridget Maasland, Erik van der Hoff, Linda de Mol, Patrick Lodiers, Renate Verbaan, Natasja Froger, Rudolph van Veen and Sebastiaan Labrie.

The personality travel show WAAR IS DE MOL was nominated for the Sound & Vision Awards and Peets STATION ID’s for Talpa received a Bronze Button in 2006.

Other Creative Pursuits

Peet’s filmmaking is a logical extension of a number of creative pursuits, such as writing, music, theatre, graphic design, comics and photography. He studied Graphic Arts in Rotterdam and briefly worked as a copywriter and desktop publisher.

Between 2004 and 2008, he was the founding editor of 24LiesASecond, a now-defunct film criticism platform for which he wrote numerous articles. A personal blog and a long string of video essays followed, for websites such as RogerEbert.com, IndieWire, Little White Lies, Fantômas, Fandor, Film School Rejects and Slant. His movie mash-up series PRETTY MESSED UP had a 6-episode run on Fandor and Filmscalpel. Several of these film-related productions were selected as Vimeo Staff Pick and screened at festivals.

He self-published the photographic novel HEROIC NUDITY, and contributed a scenario to the horror anthology BLOEDDORST, a unique collaboration between filmmakers and comic authors. His satirical comic strip DIRECTORAMA, which Hollywood filmmaker Don Mancini called “Doonesbury for cineastes,” was serialized in Smallformat magazine.

In his twenties he was the singer in the funk band Dirty Laundry and under the pseudonyms Impasto Ensemble and Man After Midnight he continues to make music today.