[2] After voorbereidend wetenschappelijk onderwijs (VWO),[jargon] she moved to the Netherlands and studied fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.

[3] Initially, she started to work as an independent director where she directed several television programs: Expeditie Robinson and Spuiten en Slikken.

The film revolves around the story of two drug dealers and addicts: father Pempy and brother Andy, actually her family members.

[2][3] In 2017, she wrote the film Downfall of a Superwoman where she won the Karen de Bok Talent Award during IDFA, 2018.

[2][3] In 2018, she made the biographical documentary Daddy and the Warlord which revolves around the story of journalist Clarice Gargard's father, who had been the right-hand man of Charles Taylor, the ex-president of Liberia.