Chris Westendorp is an Amsterdam based writer and director. She started as a documentary film maker before she got into screenwriting. She graduated from the Dutch Film and Television Academy in 2001 with the documentary Westwood Loves You. With this film she won, among others, the Prins Bernard Culture Prize. After her graduation, she immediately started to write for cinema and television. Her films and television-series have won many prices and are shown at festivals around the world. Westendorp still loves documentaries and worked on the prize winning-documentary series Debt Society. This year she will be working with the same team on a new documentary series about education. Westendorp lives with her partner and daughter in Amsterdam.