With her films, writer and director Alieke explores the imagination of the invisible.

After earning her Bachelor’s degree in History from Columbia University, New York, Alieke graduated cum laude from the Utrecht School of the Arts in 2010. Her short film PAKE LENA screened at the Netherlands Film Festival.

Together with Sia Hermanides, she wrote and directed the youth series VOETBALMEISJES, for which they received the Cinekid Kinderkast Jury Award and a nomination for the Prix Genève. This successful duo also directed the widely watched series PAPADAG and the popular youth series NINJA NANNY.

Her One Night Stand film WILDFLOWERS — a Frisian-American coming-of-age story about a longing older woman, freedom, and connection — premiered at the Netherlands Film Festival.