Bregtje van der Haak is documentary filmmaker, journalist, and since 2023 she is Director of Eye Filmmuseum in  Amsterdam. She studied dance in Paris, political science and law at the University of Amsterdam and the New School for Social Research in New York and journalism at Columbia University. Van der Haak directed multiple documentaries on social change, including the VPRO Backlight series as well as Philip Johnson: Two of a Kind (1998), Lagos Wide & Close (2005), Saudi Solutions (2006), Satellite Queens (2007), Grand Paris: The President and the Architects (2009), California Dreaming (2010), Aftermath of a Crisis (2011) and DNA Dreams (2013).