Nathalie Borgers

Belgian Nathalie Borgers was born in Brussels in 1964. She worked first as a journalist for Belgian television (RTBF). In 1987 she moves to San Francisco to study the development and production at San Francisco State University. In 1989, she won lePrix student "Writing Documentary" award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Northern California. After graduating diffusion Arts Department in 1990, she returned to Europe and prepares Truth Under Siege (1994), a documentary on the resistance of journalists in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia during the war (1991-1995) . The film, co-produced and co-directed in 1994 with Leslie Asako Gladsjo, was released in Europe, Canada and Australia. He was selected in many festivals worldwide and won several awards including the Special Jury Prize at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Since then, Borgers has written and directed many award-winning documentaries, including Greyhound, single (Greyhound, a one way ticket, 1998), a road movie that questions the American dream; Kronenzeitung, Tag für Tag ein Boulevardstück (Citizen Krone, 2002), an immersion in the most powerful newspaper in Austria and its role in the rise of the extreme right in this country; Das arrangement (the Arrangement, 2005), Austrian portraits of young women of Turkish descent face the tradition of arranged marriages; Winds of sand, women of rock (2009), the story of a tradition carried by the Tubu women in the Sahara; Greetings from the colony (2011), Suzanne history, the child of an agent of the colonial state and an African woman at a time when interracial marriages were prohibited.

2015 : Catching Haider, doc, 91'
2011 : Bons baisers de la colonie, doc, 74’
2009 : Vents de sable, femmes de rock, 93’
2008 : Desperately Seeking Belgium, doc, 50’
2004 : Das arrangement (The Arrangment), doc, 50’
2002 : Kronenzeitung, Tag für Tag ein Boulevardstück (Citizen Krone-Austria Between The Lines), doc, 57’
1999 : Zero Casualty War?, doc, 50’