Dorian Jespers (1993) is a Belgian filmmaker. He studied cinematography at INSAS and directing at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Gent, an education that focuses strongly on the development of a filmmaker's personal language. Sun Dog is his MA project, for which Jespers received the Horlait-Dapsens prize and was offered the Wildcard by the Flemish Audiovisual Funds. The film won the Ammodo Tiger Short Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.