Pieter Verhoeff, the co-founder and first chairman of DDG, passed away last week at the age of 81. Hans Hylkema wrote an In Memoriam. "1964: I am 18 and have just started the second year of the Dutch Film Academy (then still a 2-year course), studying camera and editing. Together with the later NOS cameraman Fred Mekenkamp, we were the juniors, whose student cards had to be forged because otherwise we would be refused admission to films over the age of eighteen. Most of our fellow students were in their twenties. Then we saw the new first-year students enter, older than us but most of them in their early twenties. But there was one who clearly had a was a lot older than the rest: someone who radiated more life experience than the others. And that was Pieter Verhoeff."

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