Arjanne Laan graduated as a graphic designer, film animator and photographer at the Academy of Arts ARTEZ in Arnhem. She mastered directing and editing at the documentary film school VARAN in Paris. At the Baschwitz Institute in Amsterdam she studied –extracurricular- Mass Communication & Mass Psychology. (at the UVA) She works as a filmmaker; as an editor and script editor. She is Lector Film at the Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam. Where she is also Head of the AV Design Department.