Joosje Duk

Joosje is one of three directors on the six-episode international drama series Máxima (2024), telling the life story of Dutch Queen Maxima Zorreguieta, starring Martijn Lakemeier and Delfina Chaves. The Videoland Original series was selected for the prestigious Canneseries 2024 and had its world premiere at the renowned Grand Auditorium Lumière in Cannes.

She wrote and directed the successful short film Night (2017), which won the HuffPost Arts Impact Award, was selected for over 25 film festivals, gained over 950k views online and screened at Disney’s studios. The film stars Rachel Hilson (NBC’s This is Us and HULU’s Love, Victor) and was made as Joosje’s thesis film at NYU.

Duk’s short film Thin Ice (2018), won the ShortsTV Pitch Award at the Netherlands Film Festival and screened at the Oscar-qualifying Hamptons and Atlanta Film Festival. In collaboration with Dutch network VPRO, Joosje wrote and directed her first pilot, Gappies (2018). This opportunity blossomed into directing an 8-episode web series, #Fitgirls (2019), and ultimately led to the writing and directing of the comedy web series Edelfigurant (2020), which was nominated for a Dutch Academy Award.

Joosje is in development for her first US feature film Sunshowers, a whimsical story exploring mental health issues through the eyes of a young woman who loses her sight of color.

In the fall of 2021, Joosje’s non-fiction literary debut, Ik Zie je bij de Uitgang, was released by Lebowski Publishers. The book is an ICU diary she wrote for her father about his battle with Covid-19.