Julien Vrebos (31 May 1947 – 14 October 2022) was a Belgian television and film director from

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

. At the Joseph Plateau Awards 1998 he won the award for best film director.

Life and career

Vrebos was born in

Elsene (French, ) or (Dutch, ), is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located to the south-east of Brussels' city centre, it is geographically bisected by the City of Brussels. It is also bordered by the munici ...

on 31 May 1947. In 1998, Vrebos made his first movie '. It included the attacks of the

Bende van Nijvel The Brabant killers, also named the Nivelles Gang in Dutch-speaking media ( nl, De Bende van Nijvel), and the mad killers of Brabant in French-speaking media (french: Les Tueurs fous du Brabant), are responsible for a series of violent attacks tha ...

. With this movie he became the best movie director at the Joseph Plateau Awards 1998. In 2003 followed ''The Emperor's Wife'', and in 2004 ''De Garnalenpelster'', after a book of . Vrebos also made television programmes and paid attention to social aspects. In 2007 his ''"De 8"'' was broadcast, a documentary soap about eight students of the SIBA school in

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. In 2010, his documentary soap was published at één. Around Christmas in 2010,

Eén Eén (stylized as één; en, "one") is a public Dutch-language TV station in Belgium, owned by the VRT, which also owns Ketnet, Canvas and several radio stations. Although the channel is commercial-free, short sponsorship messages are broadca ...

broadcast his trilogy programme ''Onder de sterren'' (English: Under the stars), in which the living environment of the Brussels homeless, the non-profit organization Chez Nous, and the occasional restaurant Zazou were shown. Between 2006 and 2010, Vrebos cooperated on the online political

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series '' TV Belgiek''. Vrebos died on 14 October 2022, at the age of 75.

Movies

*1998: ''Le Bal masqué'' *2003: ''The Emperor's Wife'' *2004: ''De Garnalenpelster''

Music clips

* ''The Scabs - Hard Times''

References

External links

* 1947 births 2022 deaths Belgian film directors Belgian television directors People from Ixelles {{Belgium-film-director-stub