Biography

Margien Rogaar is a Dutch film director based in Amsterdam. She works on feature films as well as television drama. Her work focuses on the theme of growing up and getting wiser. After she graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy she worked on several shorts and single plays for the Dutch Television. Her short film Breath was selected for Cannes. Together with theatre group Wunderbaum she made her first feature film Maybe Sweden, a film about five friends who come to Spain to read books in a holiday villa and get confronted with Ghanese refugees on their way to Europe. After that she directed Bon Voyage and Bouwdorp (Scrap Wood War/ Die Baumhauskönige). Both are films she developed with scriptwriter Tijs van Marle and concentrate on the lives of children and their families. Bouwdorp had a German distribution in cinema. Margien completed two television series for children. Doctor Cheesy is an adventurous story about five children who escape from fat camp in order to get a Hamburger. In 2016 she made Alleen op de Wereld, a contemporary Christmas feuilleton based on the book Sans Famille (Nobody’s Boy: Remi) by Hector Malot. Alleen op de Wereld is nominated for an Emmy Award.