Jamillah van der Hulst graduated with a degree in marketing at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences in 2002, after which she is invited to work for Right To Play Netherlands as their Manager Communications. Right To Play is a humanitarian organization that uses sport and play to improve the lives of children in the most disadvantaged areas in the world. Jamillah continues to work for the organization until the Olympic Summer Games 2008 in Beijing. In her time with Right To Play Netherlands Jamillah develops the communication department from scratch with successful activities such as a strong PR strategy, an appealing Right To Play magazine and an international photo exhibition in cooperation with the renowned photographer Raymond Rutting (Art of News Foundation).In 2009 Jamillah works as interim director for the humanitarian organization Free A Girl and in the year after as project manager of Stars in their Eyes. In those years she also picks up her career as producer and director of feature and documentary films and founds the production house JaJa Film Productions and produced Women with a Mission (2016), Hussain & Hassan (2016), 4×1 (2017) and APSA-nominated Dede (2017).
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and emerging. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
