GEOFFREY ENTHOVEN
• Director
Geoffrey Enthoven (1974) is a Ghent, Belgium KASK academy graduate. His graduation project DE AANSPREKER with Bert André received several awards and was shown in many countries. In 1999, he started the production company Fobic Films with partner Mariano Vanhoof. Their first feature film, CHILDREN OF LOVE (2001) was awarded the Ghent Film Festival Audience Award. Geoffrey produced the documentary A VOICE ON WINGS, and the short film A MESSAGE FROM OUTER SPACE. In 2006, Geoffrey directed his second feature film THE ONLY ONE written by Jaak Boon with octogenarian actor Nand Buyl as a cranky old man who refuses to give up his role in society. The film enraptured Belgian critics who awarded it their annual (André Cavens) Film Critics Award. His third feature HAPPY TOGETHER (2007) was a doom-laden tragedy on a family man who loses his job and runs out of options. Geoffrey also directed dozens of episodes of the massively popular Flemish drama novella SARA.

JEAN-CLAUDE VAN RIJCKEGHEM
• SCreenwriter and producer
Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem (°1963) worked as a translator, movie distribution press and promotion manager, TV reporter and journalist, before founding movie production company “A Private View” in 1994.  He produced feature films THE BALL, SCIENCE FICTION, LONG WEEKEND, A PERFECT MATCH and (Cannes Critics’ Week winner) MOSCOW, BELGIUM. Together with Chris Craps he wrote the screenplays of THE BALL, SCIENCE FICTION and CRUSADE IN JEANS which won the national Dutch ‘Golden Calf’ Award for Best Dutch Feature Film in 2007. THE OVER THE HILL BAND is their 4th joint screenplay. Jean-Claude signed with Pierre De Clercq for the crowd pleasing A PERFECT MATCH, directed by Miel van Hoogenbemt. With Pat van Beirs, he wrote MOSCOW, BELGIUM which was directed by Christophe van Rompaey and went on to win 15 national and international awards, including an Award for Best Screenplay at the 2008 Cannes Critics’ Week. Jean-Claude and Pat also wrote an acclaimed historical novel and a graphic novel series.

CHRIS CRAPS
• SCreenwriter
Chris Craps (°1960) is a Biology, Audiovisual Communication and Journalism graduate. For many years now, he is in charge of the film information pages of Belgian dailies Gazet van Antwerpen, Het Belang van Limburg and Metro. Chris co-wrote the screenplays of Flemish animation series ATOMIUM and TOM & TIM for Flemish national television.  With Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem, Chris scripted feature film THE BALL. Since then, Chris and Jean-Claude wrote the original screenplay of SCIENCE FICTION (directed by Dany Deprez) and adapted Thea Beckman’s classic time travel novel CRUSADE IN JEANS into a highly successful feature directed by Ben Sombogaart.

DRIES PHLYPO
• Producer
Dries Phlypo (°1977) started his movie career as a projectionist in Bruges arthouse theatre LUMIERE, for which he also programmed the children’s movie section “Lessons in the dark’. Dries joined A Private View in 2004 and was Line Producer on LONG WEEKEND, A PERFECT MATCH and MOSCOW, BELGIUM. Dries Phlypo has produced three shorts: ROMANCE by Douglas Boswell (2005), MOMENT DE GLOIRE by Hendrik Moonen (2006) and Academy Award nominee TANGHI ARGENTINI by Guido Thys (2007).

GERD SCHELFHOUT
• Director of photography
Gerd Schelfhout is a regular crew member on Director Geoffrey Enthoven’s pictures. He was Director of Photography on CHILDREN OF LOVE, THE ONLY ONE and HAPPY TOGETHER. He recently lensed Guy Goossens’ LIMO.