Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem

Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem is a writer and producer. He has a master's in translation and worked as a press officer, reporter and journalist before setting up film production company A Private View in Ghent, Belgium in 1994. He wrote or co-wrote screenplays for a dozen features including Cannes Critics' Week winner Moscow, Belgium (2008) and EFA discovery award winner Oxygen (2010). He forms a production team with his business partner Dries Phlypo and has acted as a producer on his own scripts and as a co-producer on many others. In 2015 he co-created and co-wrote the televisions series Amigo's (2015) with Pierre De Clercq. Jean-Claude wrote four Young Adult novels (co-written by Pat van Beirs) including the acclaimed historical novels Jonkvrouw (published in English as With a Sword in my Hand) and Galgenmeid (published in French as Margot d'Anvers). He also collaborated on the comic book series Betty & Dodge.