Heddy Honigmann

Heddy Honigmann
Born Heddy Honigmann
(1951-10-01) 1 October 1951
Lima, Peru
Citizenship Dutch
Occupation Film director
Website www.heddy-honigmann.nl

Heddy Honigmann (1951) is a Peruvian-born Dutch director of fictional and documentary films.

Heddy Honigmann was born on 1 October 1951 in Lima, Peru to Polish Jewish immigrants.[1] She has spent most of her adult life in the Netherlands,[1] having become a Dutch citizen.[2]

Most of her films have been Dutch productions, but have been made in a variety of languages. In 2003 the Museum of Modern Art in New York held a retrospective showing of a number of her films.[1] Honigmann won the Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2007 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.[3] In November 2011, the Centre Pompidou in Paris held a retrospective showing all of her films.[4]

Filmography

Documentaries
  • Ghatak (1990) (short film)
  • Metaal en melancholie/Metal and Melancholy (1994)
  • O Amor Natural (1996)
  • Het ondergrondse orkest/The Underground Orchestra (1998)
  • 2 minuten stilte a.u.b. (1998)
  • Crazy (1999)
  • Privé (2000)
  • Good Husband, Dear Son (2001)
  • Dame la mano/Give Me Your Hand (2004)
  • Forever (2006)
  • El olvido (2008)
Fiction
  • De deur van het huis (1985)
  • Hersenschimmen/Mindshadows (1988)
  • Uw mening graag/Your Opinion, Please (1989)
  • Goodbye/Tot ziens (1995)
  • De juiste maat (1998) (TV)
  • Hanna lacht (2000) (short film)

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 Nancy Ramsey (25 September 2003). "Giving Voice to Life's Emotion: A Documentarian's Calling". New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  2. ↑ Walter Addiego (19 April 2009). "San Francisco International Film Festival / Oblivion". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  3. ↑ Jennie Punter (20 April 2007). "Hot Docs Festival: Where truths collide". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  4. ↑ (Dutch) "Frankrijk eert cineaste Heddy Honigmann", in NOS Nieuws, 14 June 2011. Retrieved on 16 June 2011.
  5. 1 2 (Dutch) "Frankrijk eert Heddy Honigmann", in HollandDoc, 14 juni 2011. Retrieved on 20 June 2011.

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