About.
Wendy Huyghe is a Belgian author and scriptwriter.
She started her career as a journalist and columnist for the Belgian newspaper ’Het Nieuwsblad’. Next, she stepped into the humanitarian world, and for ten years covered stories and created mini documentaries for NGOs and newspapers about displacement, gender and climate change in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Quite big topics, but Wendy always tried to look for the little stories and familiar feelings that connect us all.
As Wendy likes to get inside the minds of the people she interviews, she now uses this experience in her current fictional work. Her very first script ’Sea Sparkle’ got selected for the European script-training programme Cinekid Scriptlab. The film will premiere in February 2023 at the Berlinale International Filmfestival where it is selected for Berlinale Generation.
She is also the creator and writer of two TV shows in development: ’Tommy Pepper’, an animated series for the Belgian TV channel Ketnet and ’Skate or Hate’, a drama series selected for the training programme Torino Serieslab 2021.
For her scriptwriting, she teams up with her brother, director Domien Huyghe. The pair seeks to place diverse and layered young characters in an inspiring fictional or real world. They are now working on the script of their second feature film, ‘Amari’, selected for Torino Filmlab Extended.
Wendy has adapted ’Sea Sparkle’ into a young adult novel. It was published as ‘Zeevonk’ (Pelckmans, 2022). She’s currently working on her second novel, a feminist dystopian coming of age.
Wendy lives in Ghent with a musician, a skater, a pie maker, a dog and a cat. Never a dull moment or lack of inspiration! Finding a quiet corner for herself to write, however, is a bigger challenge...
Email
huyghewendy@gmail.com