This Dutch 23-Year-Old Epitomizes The Future Of American Filmmaking

But less than a year after she graduated from NYU, the 23-year-old Netherlands native, who at 17 moved to the United States for college, is doing all right: Her thesis project, a short film called “Night,” has screened at festivals in New York, Chicago, Connecticut, Florida, Boston, Nashville and the Netherlands. Her career, in other words, is beginning the same way that many contemporary directors’ careers began, including that of Paul Thomas Anderson, an auteur she’d like to emulate, whose 1993 short “Cigarettes Coffee” led to a Hollywood deal that birthed his first feature, “Hard Eight.” 

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