Investigation journalist and documentary maker Geertjan Lassche (1976) works for the NPO (Netherlands Public Broadcasting).<\/p>\n
In 1996, Lassche begins to work as a writing journalist for newspapers and magazines. He specialises into doing research and telling backgroundstories. After studying Journalism and via the radio, he winds up with the television news magazines.<\/p>\n
Until 2008, he particularly develops his skills in research journalism and human interest reports.<\/p>\n
At times, reports turn out too comprehensive, and they are broadcasted outside the regular news magazines, in the shape of TV documentaries.\u00a0Such as\u00a0God Bless Montgomery\u00a0(2004), about the forgotten Polish part in the battle of Arnhem, including the last journalistic TV interview with HRH Prince Bernhard. For this film Lassche is awarded one of Poland\u2019s most prestigious national decorations.<\/p>\n
From 2008, when his first actual author documentary\u00a0De Boer Die Zou Gaan Emigreren\u2026 (\u2018The Farmer Who Wanted To Emigrate\u2026\u2019) is selected for the IDFA, Lassche consciously chooses the creative (author) documentary. A journalistic fact is still to be the starting point for every choice of subject and execution. For example, in\u00a0Nooit Meer Laf\u00a0(\u2018Never A Coward Again\u2019) (2009), a combination of research journalism and author documentary, a missing person case is solved after 60 years.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n In 2011, his documentary\u00a0Mannenbroeders van Kootjebroek\u00a0(\u2018Brethren\u2019) (2011) wins\u00a0The Gouden Greep.\u00a0In 2012,\u00a0Vreemdelingen en Bijwoners (\u2018Strangers and Foreigners\u2019) (2011) is awarded both the jury and audience prize\u00a0of De Tegel,\u00a0the annual journalists\u2019 professional award.<\/p>\n The documentaries Lassche makes can roughly be distributed into two styles: the essayist documentary and the so-called \u2018direct cinema\u2019. When using the latter, guerilla-style filming method, he operates alone or in very small teams, wanting to make the viewer feel part of a process. He does that by following the characters close-to-the-skin.\u00a0This is how his documentary\u00a0Niemand Kent Mij\u00a0(\u2018Nobody Knows Me\u2019) (2011) about the fallen cycling hero Thomas Dekker was created, as well as the IDFA film\u00a0De Uitverkorenen\u00a0<\/em>(\u2018The Chosen Ones\u2019)\u00a0(2012) about the selection system within the training phase of the Korps Mariniers. With this documentary, he was selected for the Golden Calf competition during the Netherlands Film Festival of 2013. For his documentary\u00a0Killer Slope, selected for IDFA 2014, he received, from an international jury, a nomination for Best Dutch Documentary.<\/p>\n In 2017 he won a major television award with his documentary series Break Free. In 2020 he will be awarded the title of Journalist of the Year for his short documentaries about the Corona pandemic.<\/p>\n In 2022, Lassche made a two hour documentary about\u00a0Louis van Gaal<\/a>, entitled,\u00a0Louis<\/em>, with the tag line “The man behind the legend”. It premiered, on April 11, in the Amsterdam\u00a0Tuschinski Theatre<\/a>. It was released April 14th, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Investigation journalist and documentary maker Geertjan Lassche (1976) works for the NPO (Netherlands Public Broadcasting). In 1996, Lassche begins to work as a writing journalist for newspapers and magazines. He specialises into doing research and telling backgroundstories. After studying Journalism and via the radio, he winds up with the television news magazines. Until 2008, he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-570","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geertjanlassche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geertjanlassche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geertjanlassche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geertjanlassche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geertjanlassche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/geertjanlassche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1751,"href":"https:\/\/geertjanlassche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/570\/revisions\/1751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geertjanlassche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}