Eliane Esther Bots (1986, NL) graduated from the University of the Arts Utrecht (NL) in 2008. She participated in the post-graduate program ‘Document and contemporary art’ at École Européenne Supérieure de l’image (FR) in 2012. In 2016 she graduated cum laude from the Master of Film at the Film Academy in Amsterdam (NL).
Her films have been screened and exhibited at (inter) national festivals such as ‘IDFA’ Amsterdam (NL), ‘Berlinale’, Berlin (DE), ‘Cinema du Reel’, Paris (FR), ‘New York Film Festival’ (USA), ‘International short film festival Oberhausen’ (DE), ‘Go Short’, Nijmegen (NL), ‘International short film festival Curta Cinema’, Rio de Janeiro (BR), Glasgow Short Film Festival (UK), Kassel Dokfest (DE), POLIN Museum (PL).
In 2017 her film ‘The Brick House’ was shortlisted for a ‘Golden Calf’ at The Netherlands Film Festival. She has been programming for the Go Short Film festival, Nijmegen (NL) and works currently as a lecturer ‘Moving image’ at the University of the Arts in Utrecht (NL).