Soetkin Verstegen is a filmmaker and animator. Her films Freeze Frame (2019) and Mr Sand (2016) have been screened at Oberhausen, Hot Docs, Vienna Independent Shorts, and she received jury awards in Ann Arbor, Clermont Ferrand, and Annecy. She has been a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude and Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral in Germany, Saari Residency in Finland, and AniDox Residency in Denmark.
She’s a guest professor at LUCA school of arts in Brussels, with a focus on experimental, expanded and documentary animation.
At MacDowell, she is developing an animated diary, combining drawing and photography.