Iris Verhoeven

Iris is the Director of the European Youth Film Festival in Flanders, Belgium (Het Jeugdfilmfestival) for 8 years now. She is responsible for the business part and the medialab. Het Jeugdfilmfestival is the most important festival for children and youth in Belgium and takes place in Antwerp, Bruges and Ghent. The festival has initiated the online platform Film Fun in Bed, a project for children in hospitals. Before the festival she worked at the University of Antwerp doing research on museums for contemporary art and the audiovisual field. Previously she was the director of a cultural centre in Antwerp. She is a member of the board of directors of oKo (Flemish Federation of Employers in the arts sector). Iris studied Comparative Cultural Sciences and Cultural Management and resided two years in Barcelona for studying Catalan language and art.