Let’s Say Goodbye to the Night
Directors Piet de Blaauw and Jan Pieter Tuinstra, Producer Femke Wolting
How does anyone survive a horrific history beyond imagination? Let’s Say Goodbye to the Night is the unique story of a group of Jewish prisoners who manage to escape from Nazi extermination camp Sobibor, exploring how trauma from eighty years ago defines the lives of their descendants today.
Piet de Blaauw
Director
Piet de Blaauw started his journalistic career as a correspondent in Scandinavia for Dutch TV stations, radio, and newspapers. After returning to the Netherlands he switched to TV reporting, working for leading current affairs programs, specialized in foreign reporting in countries like Afghanistan, Indonesia, and Iraq. In recent years, Piet has been working as an independent documentary director for Dutch PBS, focusing on foreign affairs, politics, and historical topics. Piet produced an award winning documentary about Sobibor, together with Jan Pieter Tuinstra.
Jan Pieter Tuinstra
Director
Jan Pieter Tuinstra was born in 1971 in a small village in the North of the Netherlands. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts St. Joost in the city of Breda. In 1995, he graduated as director at the audio-visual department. His graduation film was awarded as the best student production at the Dutch Film Festival in 1995. Ever since he has worked as a documentary filmmaker and D.O.P, mainly assigned by public broadcasters. Tuinstra lives with his family in Amsterdam. His work falls within the range of artistic documentary making and journalistic driven storytelling. Throughout the years Tuinstra has developed a special preference for historical themes in combination with a high social impact. His vogue dance film Otherland (2018) that provides an inside view in the LGBTQ+ community was awarded multiple times as best short doc at festivals around the world.
Femke Wolting
Producer
Emmy Award winner Femke Wolting is the Co-founder of Amsterdam, LA and London based studio Submarine, an independent film, television and transmedia production company, spanning features, documentaries and animation. Femke has produced films, series, and transmedia projects across the globe, from the US and China to Abu Dhabi, Russia and Mexico. Wolting and Submarine’s co- founder Bruno Felix are experienced in coordinating international co- productions, and collaborating with co-producers, broadcasters, and distributors including VPRO, BBC, HBO, ZDF, Arte, Channel 4, Amazon, and Netflix.