After her Bachelor of Law and Doctorandus degree in Criminology, she received her Masters at the School of Journalism at the University of California in Berkeley.
Normal Is Over has its focus on humanity's wisest response to climate change, species extinction, resource depletion, income inequality, and the link between these issues.
[2] In August 2015, after 4 years of working as a one-woman film-crew, Scheltema completed the previous 120-minute feature version of the film Normal Is Over The Movie 1.1, which was self-financed.
For many years, Scheltema worked for Dutch television as a documentary film director, producer, camera person and editor: NOS International Affairs Programme, NCRV, AVRO, Human TV, TROS, Veronica, IKON, VPRO, and BOS, Buddhist Broadcasting Station.
Her art series "Canvas Extreme" consists of seven 30-minute portraits of artists filmed during the Mandela era in South Africa and was sold to TV stations in France, Spain, Mexico, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.