Nic Balthazar

Nic Balthazar ( born July 24, 1964 in Ghent) is a Belgian television VRT journalist, author and film director.

Life

Balthazar was born as the son of the former East Flemish governor Herman Balthazar. After visiting the Koninklijk Atheneum Voskenslaan in his hometown of Ghent, he began studying the Germanic languages ​​with an emphasis on Dutch and Swedish at the university there. In addition to his studies, he wrote theater reviews for the morning newspaper De. Later, he directed himself a number of plays.

His broadcasting career began with the Flemish Radio 1 and at Studio Brussel, where he presented news from the film industry. Later, he served as Moderator by their own talk shows. He became known then to be its film magazine movie buff, which was broadcast on the television channel Canvas, as well as through his travel show Vlaanderen Vakantieland with reports from Germany and abroad.

In addition to columns and articles for various daily and weekly newspapers was created in 2002 from the pen of Balthazar's young adult novel rivet everything that wat hij show (translated: Nothing was everything he said). After the success of the book he worked it to the play rivet, which was premiered with Roel Vanderstukken in the lead role. In 2006, he adapted the book in the movie Ben X, who came in September 2007 in Belgium in theaters and during the Berlinale 2008 had its German premiere. It tells the story of an autistic teenager whose real world mixes with the online game.

For the film, Balthazar in 2007 was awarded the Grand Prix des Amériques, the Audience Award and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the World Film Festival in Montreal.