Filmmaker Gert Embrechts works as a writer/director for 13 years on
both features and television shows.
After a few years of working in the building trade as an electrician, he decided to
do something completely different and started at the Brussels film
school in 1987. He
combined education with working on sets as an electrician. After
finishing film school in 1993, he started working as a first assistant
director.
His short films '13' and 'Vincent'
won several awards in Europe and the USA and where shown on Canal plus
and Sundance Channel. Gert Embrechts wrote the screenplay for the box
office hit "Stricken" (the Netherlands) who is distributed around the
world. His first feature as a writer/ director 'Allez, Eddy!' was
released successfully in Belgium (2012). The film won several
international awards and is sold to HBO. Since 2012 Gert devotes his
experience and talent also as a Creative Producer for the production
company Cine Cri de Coeur (Belgium) to projects of other
writer/directors.