Heleen Declercq is a director and cinematographer. By focusing on connection, Heleen captures the essence of every subject she touches. Heleen is most comfortable with the use of a docu-style in all genres. From an early age, Heleen has been captivated by the power of imagery to tell stories. As a young girl she spent countless hours documenting her own world with her mother’s camcorder. As she grew older, her passion for documentary filmmaking led her to pursue formal training at the RITCS school of Arts in Brussels. Her graduate project, GIRLHOOD, has been selected for inclusion in numerous film festivals.

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Lettera al Vajont 

After working on several commissioned documentaries for film as well as television, Heleen wants to focus on her personal documentary project ‘Lettera al Vajont’. It tells the story of the Italian Marcello, who doesn’t find an audience in his village to tell about the 1963 Vajont disaster of which he himself was one of many victims, so he writes to the dam itself. That same dam that created one of the greatest man-made disasters and flooded the entire village of Longarone. Because in the end, the dam itself was a victim too. During the residency Heleen wants to complete her research and start the editing proces of the first images of her artistic documentary.