Maarten Moerkerke (b. 1969) attended HRITCS Film School in Brussels from 1987 to 1988 and later completed a summer directors' workshop at USC in Los Angeles in 1991. After various roles on film and television sets and directing two short films, he began his career as a director in 1996 on Wittekerke, the popular Flemish adaptation of the Australian show E-Street.

In 2000, he directed Spike, a controversial comedy sketch show written by journalist and writer Patrick De Witte and produced by Geert Peeters. Following Spike, the two joined forces with Geert Peeters to establish 3keys productions, which focused on contemporary comedy. Over the next twelve years, the company produced a range of television shows, including two additional sketch shows, satirical news magazines and stand-up comedy programs.

In 2012, producer Dirk Impens from Menuet Productions invited him to co-direct Deadline 14/10, a political thriller series timed to air ahead of the elections later that year. When co-director Jakob Verbruggen left the project to work on the BBC’s The Fall, Maarten took on directing the entire series. Deadline 14/10 performed well on VTM, the largest commercial network in Flanders, and marked the beginning of a successful five-year collaboration with Menuet Productions. During this period, he directed and co-wrote six drama series and one feature film. His final two series with Menuet, 13 Commandments and Thieves of the Wood, gained international distribution through Walter Presents and Netflix, respectively.

From 2018 to 2022, he worked as a fiction creative at Lecter Scripted Media, where he developed and directed two seasons of De Luizenmoeder, a comedy adapted from the Dutch hit series, as well as three seasons of Mijn Slechtste Beste Vriendin, a daily comedy soap about sharp friendships, relationships, and life’s quests, created by Ilse Beyers. He also contributed to shaping the successful true crime docuseries True Crime Belgium, directing its first five episodes.

In 2023 he left Lecter scripted media and directed the third season of ‘Professor T’ (ITV/PBS) for Happy Duck Films (B) and Eagle Eye (UK) and In 2024, he helmed for the same producers the first season of ‘Patience’, a brand new English crime series for Channel 4 and PBS.