Geerard Adriaen

Geerard Adriaen (Bruges, 30 May 2000) is a Belgian journalist and documentary filmmaker. In July 2025, he became headman in a kingdom of the South African amaNdebele people.

Activities Adriaen studied Journalism at Artevelde University of Applied Sciences and did an internship at VRT in Rudi Vranckx's editorial team.

Between May and June 2024, he made a documentary in Sierra Leone for the VRT CANVAS TV-show Nomaden, about the synthetic drug kush. After negotiating with local drug dealers, he gained access to several gangs, which he could film. His documentary Lost in Smoke raised donations that saved 29 kush addicts. Among the donors was the Belgian Princess Pauline de Merode.

Between June and July 2025, he made the documentary Men with Glasses for Nomaden in Zimbabwe, about eye problems in people with albinism. He was assisted in this by Princess Kelelo Dlamini of Swaziland. Adriaen helped organizing the project Eyes for Zimbabwe, in which more than a thousand visually impaired people received free glasses from Eyes for the World. At the time of his appointment, Adriaen was the only European iNduna in Africa. As headman, he advises the king and can represent him abroad.

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