Yim Brakel (1987) is a screenwriter and director. He studied at the Utrecht School of the Arts and has since worked on multiple drama projects and commercials.

His graduation film STERK won the award for best picture at the Leiden International Film Festival and the award for best director at the Eindhoven Film Festival.
He wrote and directed the KORT! DAYDREAMING, a triptych wherein three high school students contemplate the pending death of a classmate.
For de series Onze Straat he wrote and directed the mid-length film OTHALA, about a right wing extremist group starring Gijs Naber.

In his work Yim looks for deeply personal themes, which often focuses on the father son relationship.
Currently he is working on his feature film debut, the partly autobiographical, MARSEILLE.