Eline Jongsma

Eline Jongsma was born in Groningen, The Netherlands in 1980 and is a documentary filmmaker and artist. She founded the creative studio Jongsma + O'Neill alongside her partner Kel O'Neill in 2011 in New York. Jongsma + O'Neill's innovative non-fiction projects include the VR experience The Ark (Tribeca Film Festival, Rencontres d'Arles), the interactive project Empire (The New York Film Festival, PBS) and the Instagram-native documentary His Name Is My Name (Winner, 2022 Special Jury Award for Creative Technology, IDFA). She is a Sundance Institute New Frontier Fellow, an Emmy nominee, a Webby honoree and the inaugural winner of the Tim Hetherington Visionary Award.