Frank Herrebout

Frank Herrebout was born in Terneuzen (The Netherlands). During his grammar school period at Petrus Hondius Lyceum his interests were very much concentrated on sports (soccer, basket ball, cycling, speed skating). Between 1976 and 1980 he studied Human Movement Sciences at De Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Next he studied from 1980 to 1984 at De Nederlandse Film- en Televisie Academie (NFTVA) in Amsterdam. His first short film Nurse Lydia was selected for the Golden Bear Competition in Berlin (1985). Between 1990 and 1992 he lived in Mortsel (Belgium) - a village close to Antwerp, were he developed a number of screenplays that would lead to his first movie in 1995 (De Zeemeerman). In 1997 he started Roxy Movies, a film production company for low budget films.