Award-winning director Sherman De Jesus started in the seventies making many hours documentaries for television and theatrical release. He directed numerous documentaries in coproduction with Public Broadcasters. Sherman De Jesus is one of the founders and first director of the Dutch Film Festival; he also launched the first Dutch Film Market and, in 1985 and is initiator of the Cinema Militans Lecture. He was a member of the Golden Calf jury, a member of the steering group of the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam and was a board member and Treasurer of the Dutch Cultural Broadcasting Fund.
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