The Nettle Man

Andreas van Riet is a Dutch Filmmaker born 12 November 2001. He made his first film: RÊVERIE (his final year research project on postmodernist cinema) at 18-years-old in 2020. He finished high school at the start of the COVID pandemic, during which he made the short films: HELIA (2020) & INTER-VOLTA (2021), and his debut feature film SUPERBIA (2021), and followed a course in Documentary Filmmaking at Open Studio in Amsterdam. The next couple of years he studied Filmmaking (BA) at the London Film Academy, directing the LFA produced short films: ATTACHED (2022), ANDY & LUCY WATCH TV (2023) & THE NETTLE MAN (2025), while editing an independent short film adaptation of Franz Kafka's classic novella: THE METAMORPHOSIS (2024).