Julien Vrebos

Belgian television and film director (1947–2022)

Julien Vrebos (31 May 1947 – 14 October 2022) was a Belgian television and film director from Brussels. At the Joseph Plateau Awards 1998 he won the award for best film director.

Life and career

Vrebos was born in Elsene on 31 May 1947. In 1998, Vrebos made his first movie Le bal masqué [fr]. It included the attacks of the Bende van Nijvel. 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 Nilgün Yerli [nl].

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 Aarschot. In 2010, his documentary soap Kukeleku [nl] was published at één.

Around Christmas in 2010, Eén 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.^[1]

Between 2006 and 2010, Vrebos cooperated on the online political satireseries TV Belgiek.^[2]

Vrebos died on 14 October 2022, at the age of 75.^[3]^[4]

Movies

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

Music clips

The Scabs - Hard Times

References

^ "Humo-verslag over Onder de sterren". Retrieved 31 December 2022.
^ TV Belgiek, archived by Wayback Machine
^ "Julien Vrebos (75) is overleden: filmregisseur en Brusselse "ket" met weelderige snor". VRT NWS (in Dutch). 14 October 2022.
^ "Julien Vrebos, door en door Brussels regisseur". De Standaard. Retrieved 31 December 2022.