Metropia is a six-part series for young audiences.
Its founders foresaw the great flood before it came, and built Metropia deep underground to survive it. Robin (13) was born into that world and has felt trapped there his whole life: he wants only one thing, to see the sun, and to find his brother Oscar, who went into the tunnels years ago and never came back. When Emma emerges from those same tunnels, sun-tanned and searching for something only Metropia still has, everything changes: for Robin, for Metropia, and for the world above.
Metropia is a production of NL Film, in development at VPRO. Noël has been working on Metropia together with VPRO and NL Film for several years now, as director and creative producer.
Noël Loozen trained as a photographer at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and went on to complete an MA in Film at the Netherlands Film Academy. Photography and film have remained closely intertwined in his work ever since. Based in Amsterdam, he works across fiction, television, installations and commercials.
His short films SPOETNIK (2015) and BOTANICA (2018) marked the start of his career, with SPOETNIK selected for Generation 14plus at the Berlinale. For television, he created MOONRIDERS, a children’s series about art that received two Cinekid Award nominations. His installations OBSTACLE COURSE 2.0 (2018) and DE DIJK (2025) have been presented in public spaces, including Schiphol Airport.
In 2026, his feature debut TOUTES DIRECTIONS, produced by 100% Scripted, closes the Netherlands Film Festival and is released in Dutch cinemas on 1 October by Paradiso Filmed Entertainment. In 2027, he will direct the youth series METROPIA for VPRO, produced by NL Film. He is also developing his second feature, THE ISLAND OF NOSE (Dutch title: TOM TIPPELAAR), with Studio Ruba and screenwriter Saar Ponsioen.
For fiction, I’m represented by Connie Pingen at Solidbase Management (NL).
Commercially, I work in the Netherlands and abroad, represented by:
Sanctuary (US).
100% (NL),
Simon und Paul (DE),
Kaiserschnitt Film (AT)
