Diederik van Rooijen (1975) is a writer, director and producer for film and television. He grew up in The Netherlands, Greece and The United States. Diederik graduated the Dutch Film Academy in 2001 as a Director and a Director of Photography. He is currently living in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.
History teacher Jurre and public prosecutor Sarah each battle the criminal world in their own way. Although the two have been married for years, they keep their double life a secret from each other in order to protect each other and their family. The situation is getting more and more dangerous and their children are no longer safe either.
Release Date:2023-05-26
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:10
Vote Count:4
The story of Alexander Münninghoff who is forced to dive into his dark family Nazi-history when convincing the love of his life Ellen to stay with him.
Release Date:2023-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:1
The Black Widow is not dead ... Drug Queen Carmen van Walraven is hiding in Canada and leads an anonymous life there. One evening a colleague is harassed and Carmen helps her. In self-defense, she kills the perpetrator, is arrested and extradited to the Netherlands. While her children are in shock that their mother is still alive, there are also some people who still have to settle something with Carmen. Everyone is again dragged into an emotional rollercoaster. Carmen will now have deal with her past to save her family.
Release Date:2019-11-28
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:139
1889: the five remaining vampire clans in Europe are training to survive. In their midst is 14-year-old Alisa who has the power to choose between eternal life as a vampire or for all vampires to live as humans.
Release Date:2019-10-25
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:33
When a cop who is just out of rehab takes the graveyard shift in a city hospital morgue, she faces a series of bizarre, violent events caused by an evil entity in one of the corpses.
Release Date:2018-11-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1354
Young lawyer Iris discovers that she has an older, autistic half-brother Ray, who is in prison for the atrocious murder of his neighbour and her five-year-old daughter. When she meets Ray he reminds her a lot of her own son Aron, who also is autistic, and she starts to believe that he is innocent.
Release Date:2013-04-10
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:65
Release Date:2012-04-11
Department:Writing
Job:Original Series Creator
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:6
Johan and Saar make a final attempt to save their marriage by going on vacation to Buenos Aires. In keeping a promise to their daughter they will make a video of their activities there. When they accidentally witness (and videotape) a brutal murder they will have to run to stay alive.
Release Date:2012-02-23
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:40
Carmen, the daughter of a notorious Amsterdam drug lord, reluctantly takes charge of the family's smuggling business in order to clear her husband's debts.
Release Date:2010-09-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:30
Vote Count:22
A young actor (Nick) goes to Mumbai for a role as a colonial in a Bollywood costume film. While he records video messages for his senile father in Holland, he also tries to right several social wrongs in Mumbai that cross his path
Release Date:2009-03-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Dutch working mother, Stella, was supportive of international mission in Uruzgan, even if that meant missing her husband Jurre for months. After her brother is killed in action there, nothing can return life to normality, not even the return home of her military husband, Jurre. Flash-backs from a trial nine months later show the tragic developments
Release Date:2009-02-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:5
When her father goes to fight in the war he gives Karen a baby chicken. By the time the chick has grown into a chicken, father will have returned home from the war. The chick grows up and Karen names her new best friend Saar. But father still hasn’t come back. The war continues and Karen and her mother spend their days feeling hungry and cold...
Release Date:2007-10-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A dark evening. A father drives home with his daughter on the back seat. A head-on collision. A man awakes in a large empty room, where the father appears to want something from him. That night, victim and inflictor reconstruct the biggest mistake of their lives.
Release Date:2006-09-26
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A heart attack lands an old man in the hospital. He is physically and mentally confronted with his past, in which a secret lies buried that he has managed to keep hidden for a long tim
Release Date:2005-10-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A mother is struggling with her baby monitor.
Release Date:2003-09-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
When walking in the park, a little girl comes across a dead bird. She decides to give the expired animal a dignified funeral - in a black patent leather shoe that also lies in the park.
Release Date:2002-09-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A short directed by Diederik Van Rooijen.
Release Date:2001-06-27
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
A remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 horror film about a flock of birds that take over a quiet Northern California town.
Department:Directing
Job:Director
In this gripping thriller, a hostage situation in the heart of Amsterdam is told through the eyes of the victims, first responders and the perpetrator.
Department:Production
Job:Producer