Frank van der Meijden (1978) is a Dutch director and scenarist.
He is a lecturer of applied sciences in Communication, Film & Creative Writing. He also composes music, publishes suspense fiction and writes scenario's. He has written (and published) numerous short suspense stories, a horror novel and non fiction in The Netherlands.
In March 2023 his short movie Room Available will premiere in cinema in The Netherlands.
Originally, he is a journalist and linguist. Later on he became a speech- and ghostwriter and language trainer. The Story (written and in films) was always his passion, now it is increasingly becoming his profession.
Unique traits: Plays Bach on a Gibson Les Paul. Plays Guns n' Roses on a church organ.
Myths Budget: $5M - $10M | Horror When American cultural historians are hunting in the woods for mythical creatures that take away imaginations of people with sacrificial rituals, they get hunted themselves.
The Swim Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller When a palliatively ill novelist wants to put his childhood past to rest by revealing his role in a fatal swim afternoon to his biographer, he realizes victim and perpetrator can switch sides.
Get the bloody money Budget: $0 - $100K | Horror When a student in debt knocks on the door of an old man who's offering him a well-paying job, he finds that with every dollar spent, he falls more into the grip of his client's dark intentions.
World Order Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller When a crime journalist loses his wife and children due to a mob boss, he takes revenge single-handedly, until he becomes a pawn in an international chess game.
Room Available
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Film (short)
by 2frame productions
Director, Writer A student wants to go for ghost hunting out of sensationalism, but after a fatal accident where his best friend dies, he is feeling so guilty that he cannot connect to his own girlfriend.
Original Soundtrack Short Film Room Available
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Music
by 2frame productions
Composer
Strellus Fiction price (The Netherlands) best short story
(2004)
Stephen King Tribute - Dutch horror fiction award
(2003)
Guitarist - Best National Student Band in The Netherlands
(2001)
Dutch Filmers Academy (Amsterdam)
(2021-2022)
TV College (Hilversum)
(2018-2018)
University of Applied Sciences Windesheim (Zwolle, The Netherlands)
(1998-2002)
Free University (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)