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Heddy Honigmann
Amsterdam
filmmaker
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Title/Occupation:  Director 
Services Provided:  Seminars/Workshops 
Gender: Female
Citizenship: Dutch
Languages Spoken: Spanish, French, English, Italian, Dutch.

Brief Message to Members: 

Besides directing, I coach (young) writers and directors in the process of transforming their idea into a FILM idea! And from there to a script. I give lectures and workshops about the practice of MAKING a documentary.

Biography: 

I was born in Lima, Peru, travelled all over South-America and Europe, studied film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. Love took me to Amsterdam where I live and work since 1978.
I became in 1979 a Dutch citizen.
I have a son, Stefan. He studies film at the Dutch Film Academy. He's great!
I've made short fictions & documentary films, feature lenght fiction films and documentaries for the cinema, and all of them have been broadcasted all over Europe, the US and Canada.
Icarus Films distributes my documentaries in the USA & Canada.
My films have travelled many many miles, going to different festivals and winning important awards. You can look for all information in my website.
www.heddy-honigmann.nl

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Heddy Honigmann was born in 1951 in Peru, where she studied biology and literature and later graduated as film director at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. Since 1978 she has been a Dutch citizen and presently lives in Amsterdam, although her filmmaking career has taken her around the world. Retrospectives of her oeuvre has been held in Paris, Berlin, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Barcelona, Madrid, the MoMA, the Pacific Film Archive, Toronto, Lima, Mexico, Leipzig, Montreal, Lisbon and this year her work will be presented in Taipei and Beijing.

Nowadays Honigmann is considered world wide as one of the best documentary makers.
When she received in 2007 the Persistence of Vision Award from the San Francisco Film Society, John Anderson, film writer- and critic wrote about her:

"Heddy Honigmann is good for you. And her films are appetizing antidepressants (...) Among the real artists of nonfiction, Heddy is as responsible as anyone for raising the standards of doc-making worldwide. She flexes the form to meet her purposes, but never sacrifices style or integrity. She champions the dispossessed without sermonizing, and she injects just enough of herself in her films to give us a sense of the woman behind the movie without ever eclipsing the subject or the substance, the sense of space or the sense of place. That her films are egoless makes them all the more precious."