Las Mamás Belgas

Sven Tuytens, born in Brussels in 1967, studied journalism in Antwerp. After a carrier at international public relations and communication companies in Brussels he started his television career in 1996, making long tv reports at the regional television station Tv-Brussel in Brussels, where later on, he became head of the cultural agenda. At the same television station he directed several documentary series, related to different aspects of the history of the Brussels region.
In 1998 he moved to Rabat in Morocco to work as a correspondent for VRT, one of the two Belgian public broadcast companies, making news reports for television and started working for VRT radio.
In 2000 he moved back to Brussels and returned to Tv-Brussel making his first long documentary Congo na Bisso (2010) on Belgian colonialism in Congo, produced by Tv-Brussel.
Since 2010 Sven Tuytens works as a correspondent in Madrid for VRT radio & television and the Dutch public network NTR.
Together with Spanish researcher Ernesto Viñas he is the driving force behind Brunete en la Memoria, a Madrid based historical association that aims to keep alive the memory of those who fought at the Battle of Brunete. As a researcher he is helping families from former fighters to find the burials sites of missing soldiers, organising workshops on the Spanish Civil War in colleges, participating in conferences and organising historical walking trips to the the former battlefield,
He is the author of guides and books on the international brigades during the Spanish Civil War. In 2016 he writes the script and directs The Belgian Mums, a short documentary produced by Primera Plana Producciones in Castellón (Spain).