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Corinne van Egeraat is an internationally recognized filmmaker and producer. Working as a filmmaking couple with her husband - filmmaker Petr Lom, their award-winning work has premiered at Berlin, Venice, IDFA and Sundance and has screened at over 450 festivals around the world and broadcast in more than 30 countries. She is driven by the need for creative storytelling in the service of movies that matter. Specialising in urgent stories that reflect her values of dedication to justice. Petr and Corinne work from a deep place of humility and generosity seeing storytelling as a form of love and friendship, an act of giving and sharing. Their goal is ego-less filmmaking, that itself is a political act: collaboration without competition, made in the faith that cinema has a transformative power to enlarge our hearts and inspire us to embody our better selves. This ideal of solidarity inspired them to work in Myanmar for the better part of the last ten years on several films. The most successful of which has been Myanmar Diaries, which won the prestigious Berlinale Documentary Award, along with fifteen other international prizes, a hybrid film about daily life in the aftermath of the 2022 military coup, made together with ten young anonymous Burmese filmmakers. A film entirely without credits, it best embodies their ideal of ego-less filmmaking: the international film team abstained from public credit out of solidarity with the anonymous Burmese filmmakers. Since the last seven years, they have also expanded their focus to work on stories of climate justice: I Am The River, The River Is Me (2024) a film about New Zealand’s Whanganui River, the first river in the world recognized as a legal person. The other, The Coriolis Effect (to be released) is a highly visual essay about our world spinning out of control, set in the islands of Cape Verde, the place where hurricanes are borne. These stories about the rights of nature and changing our relation to the natural world, are in line with their own values, as they live at Schoonschip in Amsterdam, the most sustainable community of floating houses in Europe, developed by a community of like-minded residents. They are both members of the Academy of Motion Picture Art & Sciences and are New Zealand Edward Hillary Fellows, an international fellowship dedicated to global impact.