Steye Hallema & Corine Meijers - Studio Biarritz

Steye Hallema - DIRECTOR
As the son of a magician, Steye too tries to create magic and wonder. He loves to use
immersive technologies for their ability to make the audience part of the magic. He
creatively leads the critically acclaimed Smartphone Orchestra project: An orchestra
consisting out of the phones from the audience members with which he creates fun
but profound group experiences

Steye has won several awards and nominations with his innovative storytelling pro-
jects and showcased his work world-wide on A-list festivals SXSW, Tribeca, IDFA Do-
clab and Bifan. At this moment Steye also works as creative director at the 4DR Studios

- a full volumetric video Capture studio in the Netherlands. He previously worked as
Creative Director for the Disney backed XR start up Jaunt XR and as creative lead for
the MediaLab of Dutch broadcaster The VPRO.

STUDIO BIARRITZ - CORINE MEIJERS - PRODUCTION COMPANY
Founded by Corine Meijers in 2019, Studio Biarritz is now an established production
house that specializes in audiovisual projects that cross borders. Studio Biarritz
develops its own projects, but we also love collaborating with filmmakers, artists and
partners from all over the world to produce stories with a lot of heart that are relevant
for our trying times. We cross borders in 1) form, technology and subject matter, in 2)
collaboration with filmmakers, artists & partners and 3) in audience reach, distributed
on multiple platforms. As a creative producer at Studio Biarritz, Corine Meijers is also
involved as a (script) coach for several VR and immersive projects at the Flemish
Audiovisual Fund as well as the Film Fund in The Netherlands. She is a mentor at
the Playgrounds NEXT talent development program in Brabant (NL), the Immersive
& Interactive I media training for scientists, at the Silbersalz Institute (DE) and was
involved as a mentor at the immersive section of the Venice College Biennale and
European Creators Lab in 2024.