Mees directed a campaign for the new Patta X CP Company collab – including this music video for OWN.
Mees entered the world of film with his critically acclaimed debut ‘Even Cowboys Get to Cry’ (2013). Since then he’s been twice nominated for a Crystal Bear at Berlinale – for his graduating short and ‘A Hole in my Heart’ (2015) -, won a Golden Calf (aka a Dutch Oscar) with his movie ‘We Will Never Be Royals’ (2015) and received the prestigious Dutch Directors’ Guild Award, granted annually for the most remarkable directing performance of the year. Mees was selected for the 2017 Cinéfondation Résidence, by the Cannes Film Festival, where he started to write his first feature film ‘Paradise Drifters’ which was release on cinemas in 2019. The same year he was named as one of the most promising film talents in the Netherlands by the nation-wide newspaper Volkskrant. His creative style experiments with different narrative forms, in which his distinct visual style is constant. He finds inspiration across a depth of formats and has also directed standout music videos and commercial spots.