Boudewijn Koole (The Netherlands, 1965) is a Dutch film director and creative producer at his own film company JvdW film. He graduated in 1991 as an Industrial Designer at the University of Technology in Delft. Boudewijn started as a documentary filmmaker right after his studies. For years he made short and feature length documentaries for Dutch television and he specialized in youth documentaries. At JvdW film, he advises filmmakers during the development, the shooting and the editing of their films. During the last years he also writes and directs fiction film. His fiction films ‘Maite was here’ and ‘Drawn out of Love’ where nominated for Best TV Drama at the Dutch Film Festival and the Beeld & Geluid Award. Many will know Boudewijn from his last film Kauwboy/Little Bird (2012), about a little boy and his unexpected friendship with an abandoned baby jackdaw. Kauwboy/Little Bird won the Best First Feature Award at the Berlinale and the Grand Prix of the Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk Award for best Youth Film. Internationally Kauwboy/Little Bird won about 30 prices and the film was sold to more than14 countries. Nowadays he is working on two new fiction films, “Beyond Sleep” (based upon the book from author W.F. Hermans) and ‘’Disappearing’’, both international co-productions.