Anna Van der Wee

Anna Van der Wee is a distinguished producer and director, with hundreds of hours of award-winning television to her name. For over a decade, her company Wild Heart Productions — based in Canada and Belgium —has produced relevant, hard-hitting and compelling programming commissioned and bought by broadcasters from around the world.

Notably, Anna ran a monthly television magazine about Europe’s role in the world, called CONTACT Europe. Anna was the Series Editor, and Wild Heart Productions produced in association with UK-based World Wide Pictures for the European Commission. The magazine was distributed to broadcasters in 170 countries to an estimated audience of 300 million and on airlines as part of the in-flight entertainment.

Her roster of long format documentaries is wide and varied: from poetic arts documentaries, to intimate social issues to powerful human rights and political films. Her recent productions include ‘Touching Infinity’ 2020, a film by Griet Teck contemplating life when the end is in view; ‘Zeno, l’insoumis, 2019, by Françoise Levie, based on the fascinating correspondence between Marguerite Yourcenar and Andre Delvaux; ’feel my love’ by Griet Teck, an intimate portrait on living with Alzheimer;  the Academy Award nominated ‘The Gatekeepers’ 2012 by Drohr Moreh in which for the first time ever, 7 former leaders of Shin Beth, Israel’s FBI speak openly; Panda Farnana, a controversial Congolese, 2011, directed by Françoise Levie, an historical documentary on the first Congolese intellectual in Belgium; Lone Twin/Pas de Deux, 2011, directed by Anna Van der Wee, a film that draws you deep into the world of twins, a light, lyrical, animated documentary about the contemporary Belgium artist Panamarenko (2006); ‘The Gift of Dyslexia’, examines the world through the eyes of dyslexics (2001) and ‘The Dead are Alive: Eyewitness in Rwanda’ (1996) that was the first international film to examine the atrocities of the genocide. The film was shown on television across Europe, Japan, Australia and North America and won many international prizes, including the prestigious ECHO Humanitarian award, the One World Festival in Prague and awards in New York and San Francisco.

Her early career in journalism was in print. She reported on social and cultural issues for various magazines around the world such as Humo, Intermediair and New Art in Europe.  Her books include ‘Growing in Life-time’ and a self-help manual on ageing.

Prior to her work in media, Anna served as an attaché to the Minister of Social Affairs and Culture of the Brussels Region, after completing degrees in Criminology and Political Sciences at Louvain University.

She sits on the board of Beursschouwburg, a Brussels based cultural center, a laboratory for innovative forms of arts. She also sits on the board of MOOOV a Belgian Film Festival that programs films facing the world. She was a board member of ‘Generation Europe’, Europe’s leading online community and discussion platform that engages young Europeans from the 45 countries represented in the Council of Europe.

Anna is fluent in Flemish, French, English, German, Italian, and is based in Brussels Belgium