Biography

Ricky Rijneke graduated as Master of Arts in European Media with honors. She is a film director who also works as a scriptwriter, editor and photographer. She participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus.

Her second feature Tout Est Caché / All Is Hidden is in production and was developed at the Torino Film Lab Script & Pitch, the Toronto (TIFF) Talent Lab, that was mentored by Wim Wenders and Małgorzata Szumowska and the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab. The project was also selected for presentation at the Venice Production Bridge at the Venice Film Festival.

Andrey Dergachev composed the music and did the sound design. Dergachev also composed the music for Ricky’s first feature Silent Ones. He is known from his work for Andrey Zvjagintsev. Also involved is Mikhail Krichman, Zvyagintsev’s regular cinematographer and our consultant cinematographer for Tout Est Caché.

Ricky’s first short Wing, the fish that talked back premiered in Official Competition of the 60th Locarno International Film Festival nominated for the Golden Pardino (Leopards of Tomorrow) for young talent. This award winning film gained international acclaim at more then fifty international film festivals, such as Ghent (competition Prix UIP), San Francisco (Golden Gate Competition) Hamburg, Bilbao, Toronto, Paris, London, Teheran.

Her first feature Silent Ones premiered in Competition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam nominated for the Tiger Award. Selected for many major and independent international film festivals such as T-Mobile New Horizons (Nomination Grand Prix), Films de Femmes Créteil, Sarajevo Film Festival, Mostra de São Paulo (Nomination New Directors Award), Moscow Film Festival, New York, Berlin, Los Angeles, Toronto and many others.

Silent Ones won eleven awards out of fifteen nominations, among others Best Director, three times Best Film and three times Best Cinematography. Silent Ones received great critical acclaim, and was ranked as Best Film of the year by leading Dutch newspaper 'De Volkskrant'.

For Silent Ones, Rijneke brought together a choice selection of prize-winning European film talent including Berlinale's shooting star Orsi Tóth (Delta, Women Without Men), cinematographers Gergely Pohárnok (Hukkle, Taxidermia) and Jean-Paul de Zaeytijd (Bouli Lanners' regular DOP), sound Tamas Zanyi (Delta, Son of Saul). Andrey Dergachev (regular composer of Andrey Zvjagintsev (The Return, The Banishment, Loveless) designed the soundscape and composed the music. Actress and singer-songwriter Vanessa Paradis contributed with her famous song 'Joe Le Taxi'.

Quote director about international talent: "I like to work with people who inspire me and who fit in with the film. It doesn't matter where they come from. I listen to my cameraman, composer and actors and let them inspire me. It is all about curiosity, open-mindedness and working in an atmosphere with people from different backgrounds. That will open new views, it opens your eyes and creates new skills."
- IMDb mini biography by: Rotterdam Films