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name: "Marc James Roels"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/marc-james-roels"
fi1m_id: "marc-james-roels"
imdb_id: "nm2808505"
tmdb_id: 1579618
wikidata_id: "Q18402429"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "1 January 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-07T20:01:46.455334+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Marc James Roels

## Identity

Marc James Roels

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/marc-james-roels
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** marc-james-roels
- **IMDb ID:** nm2808505
- **TMDB ID:** 1579618
- **Wikidata ID:** Q18402429
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18402429, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2808505/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1579618

Producer and director. Born 1 January 1978 in Johannesburg, South African Republic.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1978, Johannesburg, South African Republic
- **Also known as:** Марк Джеймс Рулс
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18402429, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2808505/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1579618

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The House*](https://film.one/film/the-house.md) (65)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Marc James Roels is a Belgian director and stop-motion animator. Born in 1978 in Johannesburg, he studied animation at the Académie royale des beaux-arts in Ghent and works in collaboration with Emma De Swaef.

Their films include the short *Oh Willy...* (2012) and the medium-length *This Magnificent Cake!* (2018). Roels directed and wrote the story for the first segment of the Netflix anthology *The House* (2022), alongside De Swaef.

*Sources: imdb.com, fr.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The House* (2022), Fi1m 65, Story, Director, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-house.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The House* (2022), Executive Producer, Story, Director — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/the-house.md)
- *This Magnificent Cake!* (2018), Director, Editor, Screenplay, Producer, Director of Photography
- *The Garden Ape* (2015), Director
- *Doudou* (2015), Director
- *Fight!* (2014), Director
- *Otto* (2014), Writer, Director, Editor
- *Parking Ticket* (2013), Director
- *Stress Man* (2013), Director
- *Sugarman* (2013), Director
- *Oh Willy...* (2013), Cinematography, Director, Writer
- *A Gentle Creature* (2010), Director, Screenplay
- *Mompelaar* (2008), Director
- *Gnomes*, Director

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