ROXANNE STAM

CURRENTLY...

Roxanne's first feature length film, MET OPRECHTE DEELNEMING/WITH SINCERE CONDOLENCES  - shot last summer in Normandy, France - will be available at NPO START from January 31st and broadcast on television the 21st of March at NPO2. A TV Movie (Telefilm) selected by VPRO, produced by Studio Ruba, written by Randa Peters.
Cast: Tara Hetharia, Nel Lekatompessy, Raymond Thiry, Marie-Louise Stheins, Kirsten Mulder, Tamar Baruch, Michiel Kerbosch, Carlo Scheldwacht, Ferhat Kaplan, Sebastián Mrkvicka & Zoë Livay. 

From 18th January a new crime series ALPHA 00 will be broadcast by NTR, produced by Horizon Films. Roxanne directed one of the episodes.

DEINING/TIDE won three Mr. Zee awards at Shortcutz Amsterdam Annual Awards 2025: Best Film, Best Director and the International Audience Award. In London, Dayani Verstraten was awarded Best Actress and the film took home the award for Best International Short at MiraBan UK Film Awards.

Recently Roxanne worked as co-director for the first season of Máxima (Millstreet Films) and her film DEINING premiered at the Dutch Film Festival in September '24. It tells the story of Nola (8) who wants to be seen by her father. Nola and her father spend the day together at the seaside and are trying to grow closer. But when his selfish, embarrassing behavior is hurting her once again, Nola turns the tables and brutally teaches her father a lesson …

Her film DIENSTMEID #2, which she and writer & director Kurt Platvoet wrote, premiered at Nederlands Film Festival in September 2021. The film was awarded with Best Drama at Imagine This Women's International Film Festival, New York City 2022 and Best Drama at Women Over 50 Film Festival in Sussex UK 2022. Lead actress Maike Meijer won Mr. Zee Best Acting at Shortcutz Annual Awards 2023 held in Amsterdam. Her short film Say My Name premiered at the Oakville Filmfestival 2023. With four young woman she created this film through workshops telling one of their very own stories.

She worked as a researcher for the award winning documentary Occupied City, based on the book Atlas van een Bezette Stad, Amsterdam 1940-1945 by Bianca Stigter, directed by Steve McQueen. This four and a half hour documentary premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 2023 and is still traveling the world.

BEFORE...

Roxanne worked as creative assistant director & second unit director for the international series Heirs of The Night (International Emmy® Award Nominee), FENIX (Shariff Korver, KPN, Netflix), The Kollective (Assaf Bernstein, Hulu) and the feature PENOZA the final chapter (Diederik van Rooijen). She worked as creative assistant director & acting coach on the feature film I Don't Wanna Dance (Flynn von Kleist), was script supervisor for Zee van Tijd (Theu Boermans) and Pink Moon (Floor van der Meulen). She worked as an assistant to Steve McQueen for Small Axe (BBC, Amazon) during post-production. Recently she worked once more as script supervisor for Our Girls by Oscar winner Mike van Diem. The film won three Golden Calves at the Netherlands Film Festival 2025.

BEFORE THAT...

Roxanne Stam (1988) graduated in 2012 as a theatre director & teacher from AHK, Amsterdam School of the Arts. She then worked for, among others, Toneelgroep Amsterdam (ITA), AHK, Jeugdtheaterschool Zuid-Oost and DEGASTEN. She founded BoLo Belooft, a community theatre project with, by and for the people of Bos en Lommmer (Amsterdam West) where she used to live herself. On Curaçao, she directed theatre performances in 2012 and 2014 with local youth at Luna Blou/La Tentashon and gave several theatre workshops on the island. As an acting coach for film, she previously worked with the young cast of A'dam - E.V.A., KLEM, De Ludwigs, Het Herriehofje and Vechtershart.