Esmé Lammers

Esmé Lammers is a Dutch screenwriter and film director. She studied Mathematics and Physics before attending the Dutch Film Academy. Her debut feature Lang Leve De Koningin (1995), in which chess pieces come to life, received Golden Calf Best Film and Cinekid Award Best Film. In 2002, she wrote and directed the feature film Christmas Twins. Lammers also directed several TV series such as Doris (2014), one of the biggest box-office successes of recent years in the Netherlands. Lammers worked between 2006 and 2010 as Intendant for Commercial Film at the Netherlands Film Fund where she developed an assessment tool for film subsidies.

As a board member of the Dutch Directors Guild, Vevam and Stichting Thuiskopie, she campaigned for a better copyright position for screenwriters and directors. Through the site Filmzaken.com, which she set up in 2015, Lammers informed filmmakers about the business side of filmmaking with the aim of strengthening their (financial and copyright) position and making them aware of their creative power and rights.