esmé lammers

Esmé Lammers is a Dutch writer, filmdirector and photographer. She studied mathematics before she went to Filmschool. As a student she worked as a still photographer and photographed the people she met in the nightclub across the street; actors, musicians and filmmakers.

This site shows her photo’s from the eighties and the more recent taken photo’s – mainly productionphotography of the film Saint by Dick Maas.

Her goal is to make feelgood stories and images in her films, photo’s and blogs.

The films and televisionseries she wrote and directed are on Cupola Films.

In 2015 Esmé founded the site Afdeling Filmzaken about the business side of filmmaking in the Netherlands to inspire fellow filmmakers to be more selfaware of their creative power and rights.

She also developed a subsidy assessment tool with the University Twente for the Dutch Filmfonds Makers op Waarde Geschat.

Since 2020, Lammers occasionally publishes her thoughts – Notities

In 2024 she took the initiative to start Ik weet wat recht is