Tessa Boerman is an independent Dutch documentary filmmaker (A Knock out, Puck en het Raadsel van de codes, Zwart Belicht), programmer and cultural advisor. Her work focuses on issues of representation, diversity and inclusion. For International Film Festival Rotterdam Tessa programmed Black Rebels focusing on international films about and predominantly by black people navigating the cultural divide since the origin of cinema. With the Dutch Directors Guild she advocated for cultural diversity and inclusion in the Dutch Film and TV industry. Her film Zwart Belicht painfully reveals the long history of exclusion; how even what was meant to be seen, stayed unseen for centuries.