Bio/Tjardus Greidanus, Dir. of Photography

Beachwood Canyon resident Tjardus Greidanus made his first film in his native Holland at age 12, a three-minute stop-motion animated film of King Kong in which the giant ape climbed the Statue of Liberty. More recently, he photographed, directed and edited the HBO documentary “Miami Vice Undercover,” about the making of director Michael Mann’s latest film. He is also the director of photography, co-director and editor of “The Chef and the Architect,” a documentary currently airing on The Food Network, and “Hindsight,” a documentary about his family’s post-war experiences in a remote region of Alberta, Canada.

In the years between, he directed his first feature, “The Fire Within,” at age 16. The film won the Alberta Motion Picture Industry Award for best amateur film and received national press. As a film student at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, he produced and directed his first 16mm feature, “The Final Sacrifice,” which won Calgary’s Iris award and was distributed in over 30 countries. Greidanus’s next feature, “The Unspoken,” was a psychological thriller. He edited that film in Los Angeles, where he found work writing, directing and editing DVD documentaries for feature films “Memoirs of a Geisha, “Ali” (directed by Michael Mann), “Riding in Cars with Boys,” Charlie’s Angeles: Full Throttle,” and “Diehard II” and “III,” as well as HBO specials about the making of “Collateral,” (also directed by Mann), “Spanglish,” “Antwone Fisher,” and “A Knight’s Tale.”