Meltse Van Coillie (1992) obtained an academic Master in Film Studies at the University of Ghent in 2014. Afterwards she joined the Eramus Mundus program DOC NOMADS, for which she made several short documentary films in Hungary and Portugal. By the end of 2015 she returned back to Belgium to pursue a broader education in audiovisual arts at KASK, School of Arts in Ghent, where she graduated in 2018. Her graduation film ELEPHANTFISH received the prestigious VAF Wildcard Filmlab that same year. The awarded production budget resulted in a second short film: ZONDER MEER, which had its international premiere at the Berlinale Film Festival in 2021. Currently she is developing a third short film, which will be shot during the polar night in Greenland in January 2022.