With her films and series, scriptwriter and director Sia Hermanides wants to create new images and show underexposed stories.
\nAfter getting her Bachelor\u2019s degree in Media and Culture (minor Gender Studies, Political Science) at the University of Amsterdam, and a few months of teaching in Tanzania, Hermanides graduated cum laude from the Utrecht School of the Arts in 2010, majoring in screenwriting and directing fiction.<\/p>\n
In 2016 she wrote and directed the BosBros-produced TV series \u2018VOETBALMEISJES\u2019. The series was nominated for the Prix Gen\u00e8ve and won the Cinekid Kinderkast Jury award. In 2019 she directed the series \u2018PAPADAG\u2019 and the mid-length film \u2018Afua\u2019 which received rave reviews from audiences and press. Hermanides wrote and directed season 1 and 2 of the popular martial arts TV series \u2018NINJA NANNY\u2019. The series was awarded a five-star review in the NRC and has been sold to several countries including Germany, Denmark, Norway, South Korea and Slovenia. The series was also nominated for the Cinekid Kinderkast Jury Award and the prestigious Prix de Jeunesse. In 2022, Sia debuted her feature film \u2018WHITE BERRY\u2019 about a young woman of African descent with albinism who is searching for her place in the world.<\/p>\n
Sia Hermanides was speaker at the workshop Positionality Deep Dive 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11973,"template":"","jaar":[],"class_list":["post-19920","expert","type-expert","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expert\/19920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expert"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/expert"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jaar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jaar?post=19920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}