Background
Brenninkmeijer was born and raised at Doorwerth castle, Netherlands, where his father G.H. Brenninkmeijer was owner of the Michelin starred Restaurant Beaulieu.
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Stephan Brenninkmeijer
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Education
From 1988 to 1992 he studied at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam.
Career
At the age of 8 his family moved to Apeldoorn. Although aiming to direct feature films, he first focused on storytelling through editing. In 1992, he started his professional career editing television series and films.
In 2002 he wrote, produced and directed the motion picture Swingers, a controversial low-budget production that had theatrical releases in the Benelux countries and was sold internationally.
In 2011 he wrote, produced and directed the feature film Caged. Caged was picked up by Anderson Digital for United States release in February 2013.
In 2012 Brenninkmeijer participated in the crowd-sourced project Entertainment Experience with Paul Verhoeven to make his version on the user-generated script. Both Verhoeven"s film (called Tricked) and Brenninkmeijers Lotgenoten (Counterparts) were to be released in the Netherlands in March 2013.
Related to the famous Brenninkmeijer clan, the richest family in the Netherlands known from the C&A international chain of clothes stores.
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Netherlands