Jan Doense is a Dutch producer, director, festival director and film distributor. He studied law at the University of Amsterdam and film at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy (NFTA), the New York Film Academy (NYFA) and the Binger Filmlab and is a graduate of the European Audiovisual Entrepeneurs (EAVE) Producers' Workshop. He began his career in film as a journalist, was the founding director of the Imagine Film Festival in Amsterdam and has been the director of the International Film Festival Film by the Sea since 2019. In 2008 he was made a Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau.