Rene Nuijens

A Dutch photographer and autodidactic director/filmmaker. Loves to uncover the absurdity of situations who are recognizable for everybody. Known for his photographic eye, subtle storytelling, dry humor and casting… Learned life’s most important lessons while working as a boy in his fathers pet shop. For example, that humor is very much like kitty litter: its best to keep it dry, very dry… His ability to talk and bond with animals laid the groundwork in his development into a true actors director. And while he never liked dog shows, they did give him a taste for winning prizes. In short Rene always shoots towards the stars like his heroes space dog Laika and her wonderfully human counterpart Yuri Gagarin. THE MIRACLE OF FC GAGARIN (SCRIPT) A dry tragic comedy which unravel the miracle of the disappearing football during a friendly football match in the sky and how it saved the live of a goat farmer in Mongolia. (script nominated at the Berlin International Filmfestival) RINGO ROCKET STAR and his song for Yuri Gagarin (2017) A dry tragic musical comedy about a gipsy guy and his song he wrote for the first man in space. [Length: 10:00] YURI ON THE PHONE (2015) A dry tragic comedy featuring Serbian film diva Rada Đuričin (1934) as a woman whose passion for Yuri Gagarin (1934-68) is still as strong as when it was first set aflame after Gagarin's launch in 1961. [Length: 06:06] THE FIRST YUGOSLAVIAN COSMONAUT (2012) A story about a man who dreamed to be the first Yugoslav in the Cosmos but as a kid he got already sick on children swings. [Length: 03:28] THE YURI GAGARIN GOOSE CHASE (2011) A road movie shot in Cuba, searching for the Yuri Gagarin Goose Farm. [Length: 01:53] TV COMMERCIALS/ VIDEOCLIPS / VIRALS Over more then 100 television commercials, virals and music-videos between 2000 & 2016