Patrick Bus (1975) earned his Master’s Degree in Film and Television Studies in Amsterdam, after completing an internship at the Palestinian Broadcasting Company. He then worked as a reporter and program creator at various television companies in the Netherlands.
In 2003 he began his first short film, “The Personal”, a portrait of a 69 year old gay man still hoping to find the love of his life on the Internet.
In 2005 Bus won the Documentary Script Award at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam, for his “The Bittersweet Shadow of Stampersgat,” a film about the relationship between Europe, sugarbeet and the inhabitants of the small village of Stampersgat. It premiered at the Dutch Film Festival in september 2008, was broadcasted on Dutch National Television oct 31 st 2008 and shown again in the film theatre at the International Documentary festival Amsterdam.
Bus is currently filming his next documentary “The bare truth” , a film about love, HIV and the human condition.