Carine Bijlsma is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and photographer who lives and works both in Amsterdam and New York. She studied photography in New York and Florence, Italy and graduated from the Dutch Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam. Since then she has been working back-to-back on documentaries on high profile artists in music and in art. Her films are screened at festivals around the world, have been aired on tv or had a cinematic release. Her feature length documentary Devil’s Pie, about soul singer D’Angelo, premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and was listed as “2019’s biggest music documentaries” by USA today. Besides her work as a documentary filmmaker she also makes commissioned work and music videos. Her photography work is printed in both magazines and albums, amongst which D’Angelo’s Black Messiah album and at WePresent from WeTransfer. She was a guest lecturer at the Dutch Film and Television Academy, NYU Tisch School of the Arts and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.

She is a board member of the Dutch Directors Guild and works as a script advisor.

In 2024 she wrote her debut short stories novel De Vondel.

 

 

Social

https://www.instagram.com/carinebijlsma/

 

Behind the scenes

https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/story/dangelo-the-devils-pie/

 

 

Interviews

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4LXi8kbWCf0jloBXeHQ8wH?si=65892af3b48745c7

https://www.nporadio2.nl/soulenjazz/podcasts/soul-en-jazz-live/22889/carine-bijlsma

 

Press

https://theface.com/music/dangelo-devils-pie-voodoo-documentary-music-reba-maybury

https://www.volkskrant.nl/mensen/bij-d-angelo-botsen-roem-aantrekkingskracht-en-adoratie-met-diepe-spiritualiteit~b30b462d/?referrer=https://www.google.com/

 

Album photography Black Messiah - D'Angelo