Emma Lesuis is a Dutch freelance documentary maker.

Her first documentary 'Vir 'n glasie wyn' (For a glass of wine) about a South African winery was broadcast on Belgian and Dutch national television. She also made a documentary exhibition 'Op die plaas' (On this place), which she presented in the Netherlands, Belgium and South Africa.

Emma researches, writes, films, edits, presents - whatever role is required. Her focus is on documentary storytelling, often rooted in the personal. She prefers to combine different disciplines, as she did in the theatrical live documentaries *Aardappelbloed* and *Meer dan bauxiet*. With the latter she recently performed 17 times at the Oerol Festival on Terschelling in a co-production with Silbersee. After the summer, she will continue working on her first feature-length documentary in collaboration with the broadcaster HUMAN / Docmakers, and from the end of 2025 she will be an associate artist at the documentary collective BERLIN in Antwerp.

Emma Lesuis

Basic information

Name
Emma Lesuis
Title
Documentary filmmaker
Country
Netherlands
City
Leiden
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Supported projects

Land of plenty, land of but a few

  • Agriculture
  • Economy

MAPUTO - “Land of plenty, land of but a few” is a web documentary and a data journalism investigation that tells the story of how the peasants who live in the Nacala Corridor, one of the most fertile and populated areas of Mozambique, have been heavily affected by the arrival of large agricultural investments. More about the story here.

Vir 'n glasie wyn

  • Agriculture
  • Exploitation
  • Work

CAPE TOWN - The world behind a glass of South-African wine. Emma Lesuis went back to the winery where she made the documentary "Vir 'n glasie wyn" (For a glass of wine) and saw that little had changed. That's why she went looking for solutions and discovered the world of Fairtrade. 

Game On

  • Migration
  • Sport
  • Trafficking

LISBON - Hundreds of African and South-American minors come to Europe each year searching for a better life and professional success in the El Dorado of European football leagues. In doing so they expose themselves to multimillionaire cross-national structures of power and quick profits.