Jikkie Schelling is a Dutch filmmaker and screenwriter driven by a fascination with the unpredictability of life. Her work often blurs the boundary between fiction and reality, crafting worlds that mirror our own while disrupting the ordinary with touches of the magical and surreal. Frequently described as dark fairytales for adults, her stories resist the sweetness typically associated with the genre, offering something more unsettling and complex underneath the surface instead.

Jikkie finished her bachelor in Audiovisual Media at the Utrecht School of the Arts with her graduation film FUNNY FEELING (2022). The film received the Fiction Wildcard from the Netherlands Film Fund, was nominated for Best Graduation Production at the 2023 Netherlands Film Festival by the ‘Circle of Dutch Film Journalists’ and earned two nominations for a BUMA Music in Motion Award, winning one of them. After graduating, Jikkie teamed up with production house Keplerfilm to create her debut short film CALL IT FATE (2025), with coaching of Australian screenwriter Rita Kalnejais (BABYTEETH). CALL IT FATE screened in the Debut Competition of the Dutch Filmfestival, and had its international premiere at Indie Festival DANCES WITH FILMS. 

In December 2025, Jikkie was selected to be a part of the filmmakers residency Creators Lab in Patagonia, Argentina, under the mentorship of director Paolo Sorrentino. During this lab, she wrote and directed her third short film MÁS ALLÁ, which is currently in post-production.

Additionally, she works as a screenwriter on multiple Dutch TV-Shows, such as Mabel & Margarita, a spin-off of the hitseries Máxima, and La Vida Barcelona, both produced by Millstreet Films and entering production in early 2026.