 In 1990 he set up the Northern School of Film & Television at Leeds Metropolitan University, and in 1992 became the first non-Dutch director of the Netherlands’s national film school, the Netherlands Film and Television Academy.In 1997 he went to Hong Kong to set up a new School of Film & Television for the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.He remained in Hong Kong for eight years as the first Dean of the new school, with just one year back in the Netherlands to set up – and briefly hold – the post of script commissioner or Intendant for the Netherlands Film Fund, when his commissions included scripts for two successful Dutch feature films "Minoes" (Undercover Kitty (film)) and "De Storm".