director of the film “I Am the River, the River Is Me”
Petr Lom was born in Prague in 1968, grew up in Canada, and is now based in The Netherlands with his Dutch partner and producer Corinne van Egeraat. He received his Ph.D. in political philosophy from Harvard and was Associate Professor at George Soros’ Central European University in human rights and philosophy. In 2003, he became an independent documentary director and cinematographer specializing in human rights film. His award-winning films have been broadcast in over thirty countries and screened at more than three hundred and fifty film festivals around the world including Sundance, Berlinale, Locarno, Rotterdam, Venice and IDFA.
His filmography: Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan (2004); On a Tightrope (2007); Letters to the President (2009); Back to the Square (2012); ANA ANA (“I am me” in Arabic, 2013); Burma Storybook (2017); Angels on Diamond Street (2019) and Letter to San Zaw Htway (2021). He was the storytelling coach and editor of SAD FILM (2021) and Myanmar Diaries (2022) which won the 2022 Berlinale Documentary Award. He is currently in production on: The Coriolis Effect, a creative documentary about the world spinning out of control, produced by ZINdoc with the Netherlands Film Fund, NPO and COBO Funds and broadcaster EO; and We are the River a creative documentary about how Maori indigenous wisdom can change our relation to nature, produced by ZINdoc with the Netherlands film Fund, NPO and broadcaster Boeddhistische Omroep. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
