Brenninkmeijer was born and raised at
Doorwerth Castle,
Netherlands, where his father G.H. Brenninkmeijer was owner of the
Michelin starred Restaurant Beaulieu. At the age of eight, his family moved to
Apeldoorn. From 1988 to 1992, he studied at the
Netherlands Film Academy in
Amsterdam. Although aiming to direct feature films, he first focused on storytelling through editing. In 1992, he started his professional career editing television series and films. As an editor, he worked with Dutch directors like
Academy Award winner
Mike van Diem. He directed his first feature film in 2000,
The Silence of the Soul, which won a Golden Crown Award at the
ICVM festival in
Atlanta, United States. The same year, he co-directed the TV series
Westenwind, which won the
Televizierring. In 2002, he wrote, produced and directed the motion picture
Swingers, a controversial low-budget production that had theatrical releases in the
Benelux countries, as well as internationally. In 2011, he wrote, produced and directed the feature film
Caged.
Caged was picked up by Anderson Digital for US distribution, and released in February 2013. In 2012, Brenninkmeijer participated in the
user-generated project
Entertainment Experience with
Paul Verhoeven to make his version on the user-generated script. Both Verhoeven's film (called
Tricked) and Brenninkmeijers
Lotgenoten (Counterparts) were to be released in the Netherlands in March 2013. The
Entertainment Experience won an International
Emmy Award in 2013. == Filmography ==