FILMS

Since 1988 I have directed/written/produced more than 30 feature length films. Click below to view some of them.

Since 1988 I have been active as a director, producer and writer of feature documentaries, feature films and TV drama. I have made a number of documentaries in Africa and Asia and with three friends in 1994 I made the feature documentary film 'Rock 'n Roll Junkie' which was voted best Dutch postwar biopic byt he Dutch public in 2008.

In 1996 I went to live in Africa where I wrote a number of books but also made some films. In 2004 I made Heavenly Mud, a film about traditional architecture and magic in the Niger valley (Mali). It was selected for a number of international film festivals and broadcast in many countries.

In 2009 I made the 90 minute film Secrets of the Maasai with Jan Dries Groenendijk. It features many unique rituals. In 2011, my film The Promise about the many unfulfilled promises the West has made to Africa premniered at the Dutch Film festival. It was broadcast on Dutch television (IKON) and has been sold to a number of countries.

If you want to order one of my films please email me at ton@tonvanderlee.nl

for my filmography click here