Director and screenwriter Maurice Trouwborst graduated at the Utrecht School of the Arts HKU in 2006. His graduation film JEF won three audience awards at national festivals. After graduation, he directed television drama URFELD and Christmas viral A MERRY HUNT. In 2015 he directed his first full length television drama DAMES4. Then he directed the sci-fi youth series ZENITH, winning the Cinekid Lion Jury Award in 2017 and nominated for a Rockie Award at BANFF 2018. The series was sold to Arte and broadcasted in Germany and France.

Since 2018 he is showrunning and directing the successful youth series FLOOR RULES, which is broadcasted in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium and France. Winning both Jury and Audience Lion Awards at Cinekid and the International Emmy Award for Best Children’s Series. The fifth season will be released in spring 2022.

His debut feature film CAPTAIN NOVA opened the 35th Cinekid Festival and won the Lions for Best Children's Film. It's theatrical release was in December of 2021 and on the 1st of April 2022 it premiered on Netflix.

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