Nathalie Windhorst (Netherlands)
Head of Factual Acquisition
VPRO

Nathalie studied Arts at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.

She worked as a producer and researcher before she became a buyer for public broadcaster VPRO. Since 2005 she has run the factual acquisition department and acquires factual content (documentaries, docs series, factual entertainment, music) on behalf of all public broadcasters part of NPO. Nathalie also acquires art documentaries for NTR, factual entertainment for a young audience for BNNVARA, and true crime for AVROTROS.


VPRO is a public broadcaster and part of NPO (Netherlands Public Broadcasters organisation). Documentaries, both inhouse or locally produced, coproduced and acquired are an important part of their profile. In acquisition VPRO focusses on creative often political stories that are urgent, relevant for a Dutch audience and stand out in the way they are told and visualized. Also doc series that reconstruct contemporary history are on their wishlist.