Growing up as a shy kid in a small village, Ruud Lenssen naturally learned the art of observing. But it took until his studies at the film academies of Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Genk, Belgium (LUCA School of Arts, master’s degree, graduated with honors) before he really knew how to give expression to this. His love for the documentary genre was inevitable. The lessons of his youth manifest themselves in all films by Ruud Lenssen because of the observing style, but also through the choice of socially relevant themes that he portrays in a modest and personal way.
