Lucas Rinzema is a researcher, filmmaker, photographer and teacher. He graduated from the Research MA in Arts, Media and Literary Studies at the University of Groningen, and he holds BA degrees in Philosophy and in Arts, Culture and Media from the same university. Current research interests revolve around critical animal studies, (eco)feminist and decolonial theory, and film and media studies, with foci on documentary film and on the media ecologies and affective economies of contemporary animal industries. His PhD project examines the frames and figures that dominate representations of the Dutch animal-industrial complex, and how these circulate in media.