Dave Van den Heuvel

Dave Van den Heuvel was born in Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium as third of three children from parents Poulain Van den Heuvel. Dave attended film school at the RITS in Brussels after his studies at the Sint-Joseph Institute in Kortrijk. His interests for film-production were already present at a very young age. When he was 10 he directed small family films, and got his first assignment at the age of 14 making a movie about different rock-festivals in Belgium. At 16 he directed his first play and 2 years, after graduation at college, he was active in a lot of film productions as assistant location manager and assistant director. Eventually he got called for a lot of assistant directing jobs, for Une belle journée (2001) and Les Petits oiseaux (2001). His own short movie Nuit d'Amour (1999) was his first student film which got a lot of acclaim. But since Belgium doesn't have a lot of film productions, many young filmmakers like Dave, went on the road of the commercial films. He directed about 20 films for mayor companies and got in 2003 his first "Gold Award" for a TV-spot for the Agency Grey, which got him recognized as a young promising director. Dave made a second short movie, eXit and went on working as a director in the advertising sector for different companies.