Malu Janssen (1989) is a director and screenwriter living in Amsterdam. She studied theater and film studies at Utrecht University before entering the Netherlands Film Academy where she graduated in 2016. Her graduation film OUR OWN is a short film about identical twin sisters trying to find an identity of their own during a spiritual retreat. OUR OWN premiered at Winterthur before traveling to other festivals. She just finished her new short STUFF, about a woman’s love for her design objects, which will premiere at the upcoming edition of the Netherlands Film Festival. Currently she is cowriting her first feature film THE DUMPED, which is about a girl attempting to get out of the underground waste container she was born in. Malu aspires to make films that engage with their audiences and that don't only appeal to the emotions, but even more to the mind. She likes both realism and surrealism in order to explore the ways of people. For more information on Malu and her work, visit her website at http://www.malujanssen.com/