[1] During an interview, director Heddy Honigmann asked van der Meulen to collaborate on her next screenplay, Tot Ziens (1995).
[1] In the late nineties, van der Meulen was granted a stipend from the Dutch Media Fund to develop original material, including Zoenzucht (1999) for the VPRO television network.
[1] In 2010, van der Meulen won the Golden Calf Award for Best Screenplay for Joy, a story about an orphaned young woman searching for her biological mother.
[2] Her latest film Zurich (2015), directed by Sacha Polak – with whom van der Meulen collaborated on Hemel (2012) – has received generally positive reviews despite a lack of international recognition.
[1] Van der Meulen chooses the directors she wishes to work with and enjoys relative creative freedom as she receives little-to-no pressure from producers.