Nandi Rieks
About
As a maker Nandi Rieks offers a different view on the world due to her culturally diverse background, her second bachelor in psychology and her life experiences. They provide her with a platform to relate to other people and awareness of which stories are important to tell and the best way to go about it. Within the professional field she has broad interests, next to film she enjoys many different forms of art. She make music, sketches, paintings and sculptures. Nandi is also a handy person, usually fixing things around the house, and finds this provides her with an advantage in the professional field, considering her many skills in different areas.
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Nandi finds representation very important, especially in media, because if people are never exposed to something or someone, then they will never understand each other, and never learn to understand. That’s why she wants to bring voices that have not been heard often to the foreground. Her aim is to inform people and give people hope or inspiration. However, with great power comes great responsibility, which is why she take ethics of film, especially documentary making, very seriously. Her aim is to help people realise that everyone has a different story and way of showing and dealing with their struggles. She hopes her audience can relate to the stories she tells and because of that feel less lonely and more compassionate towards others.
Self-portrait, 2014
Nandi Rieks is Dutch but has lived in Tanzania most of her life. There she attended an English IB school. She have been exposed to many different cultures and people, hence the inspiration for her art. After graduating IB she moved to Denmark for a gap year. Now Nandi is studying a dual degree in Rotterdam. She is following the Audio-Visual Design bachelor at the art academy(WdKA – Willem de Koning Academy), as well as the Liberal Arts and Sciences program at Erasmus University College, majoring in Psychology.
Nandi wrote her thesis at the university on female representation in film. Much research indicates that female representation is very stereotypical and that this has a negative impact on women, particularly on their self-confidence. This, in turn, affects the opportunities women receive, the equality between men and women both inside and outside the workplace, and the socio-economic status of women. What she found was that if there is more non-stereotypical and varied representation in film, women are positively influenced in their self-confidence.
Nandi would like to work on/make films that have a positive impact on people who do not feel well represented.