- 1. Early life
- 2. Career
DHONT
Lukas
Belgian film director
Date of Birth: 11 June 1991
person_view.holiday: Making Life Beautiful Day
Age: 33 years old
Zodiac sign: Gemini
Profession: Film director
Content
Biography
Lukas Dhont is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. He was featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list in 2019.
Early life
Dhont was born in Ghent, Belgium. His mother, Hilbe is a fashion teacher at an art school. He has a younger brother Michiel who is a producer. As a teenager, Dhont worked as a costume design assistant on film and television sets.
Career
He made his feature-length debut in 2018 with Girl, a drama film inspired by the story of Nora Monsecour which focuses on a trans girl pursuing a career as a ballerina. Girl premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d'Or award for best first feature film, as well as the Queer Palm. It received the André Cavens Award for Best Film given by the Belgian Film Critics Association (UCC) and was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards. It received nine nominations at the 9th Magritte Awards and won four, including Best Flemish Film and Best Screenplay for Dhont.
Dhont's second feature, Close, starring Emilie Dequenne and Léa Drucker, premiered in competition at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where he shared the Grand Prix with Claire Denis' Stars At Noon. It also won the Sydney Film Prize in June 2022. The film is based on his own experiences at school, and tells the story of the friendship between two boys in their early teens.
As of July 2021 Dhont is developing an untitled film with screenwriter Laurent Lunetta.
Rating GlobalNY.biz
Takes place
general
Takes place
area
Takes place
profession
Mentions in the news
Born in one day
Date of Birth: 11.06.1991. Age: 33.
Zodiac sign: Gemini.
person_view.holiday: Making Life Beautiful Day
(Goat) .
Horoscope Gemini: horoscope for today, horoscope for tomorrow, horoscope for week, horoscope for month, horoscope for year.
person_view.holiday: Making Life Beautiful Day
(Goat) .
Horoscope Gemini: horoscope for today, horoscope for tomorrow, horoscope for week, horoscope for month, horoscope for year.
Days left until next birthday: 207 Days.
1 place
2 place
3 place
Profile statistic
mentions
views
Companies rating
70 Persons
40 Persons
36 Persons
23 Persons
20 Persons
19 Persons
17 Persons
16 Persons
15 Persons
14 Persons
GlobalNY.biz pays special attention to the activities of famous people: politicians, officials, businessmen, bankers, cultural and sports figures. Their opinion largely determines the development of political, social and economic life in New York. The section is constantly edited by our journalists for the relevance of information. Here you can find information about CEOs and presidents of top New York companies, officials and public figures who play a key role in the development of the region.
The goal of the project is to create a comfortable information space for all market actors, as well as to acquaint the readership with business people in New York.
We have created an impressive database of people in New York, which contains information about a career path, education and other important information about a person.
Thanks to automatic counting of the number of mentions of a person in the news sections " New York News ”and“ New York Press Releases ”on the portal the rating of popularity and influence of persons is formed. The GlobalNY.biz team monitors rating changes and rewards project participants for their success. In general, the rating of participants is based on an in-depth analysis of the activity of PR services of famous people, and also reflects the qualitative state of the information field formed by the media and press services around the organization.
Business People of New York is a project about people who, through their ideas, words and deeds, have a great influence on the development and prosperity of New York.
Alena Potapova
Development Director
