Abigail Prade is a Dutch-Surinamese director and producer based in New York City. After studying art history, her love for Asian art house cinema led her to Singapore where she pursued an M.F.A. in Film Production at New York University (NYU), Tisch School of the Arts Asia. Abigail’s NYU thesis film, Future Perfect, was shot in Seoul, South Korea, and screened at the Locarno Film Festival, and the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, among others. Her short film A Mutual Understanding was supported by Dutch funds CineSud and CBK Rotterdam and premiered at the Netherlands Film Festival. An alumna of the Locarno Filmmakers Academy, CinemAsia FilmLAB, and Go Short Talent Campus, Abigail deeply values cross-cultural, international storytelling. Her work often centers on women’s experiences. Abigail is an independent producer and also works as a Film Program Officer at the Claims Conference, a film and new media fund in New York.

Er Tin Tin — Suriname, 1982. Amidst the political turmoil of a military dictatorship, a family tries to maintain a semblance of normalcy while living under challenging conditions. Drawing from the tradition of oral storytelling, this film weaves together different stories from folklore and Surinamese history, while centering the experiences of one family in the 1980s. In doing so, it explores the painful history of a country that has been marked by colonialism.