Heddy Honigmann
Heddy Honigmann (1 October 1951 – 21 May 2022) was a Peruvian-Dutch film director of fictional and documentary films.
Heddy Honigmann
- Name
- Heddy Honigmann
- Born
- 1 October 1951
- Birthplace
- Lima, Peru
- Died
- 21 May 2022
- Place of death
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Occupation
- Film director
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands · Peru
- Honours
- Dr. J.P. van Praag-prijs · Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds award
- Languages
- Spanish
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• Name — Heddy Honigmann • Born — 1 October 1951 • Birthplace — Lima, Peru • Died — 21 May 2022 • Place of death — Amsterdam, Netherlands • Citizenship — Peruvian, Dutch • Occupation — Film director • Website — www.heddy-honigmann.nl
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Heddy Honigmann lived from 1 October 1951 to 21 May 2022 and was a director. The birth of Heddy Honigmann is recorded on 1 October 1951 in Lima, and the death on 21 May 2022 in Amsterdam.
Early life and education
Early life and education
Honigmann was born on 1 October 1951 in Lima, Peru, to Jewish refugees. Her mother, Sarah Pach Miller, an actress and homemaker, was from Poland; her father, Witold Honigmann Weiss, an artist and illustrator, was from Vienna.
Career
Career
Most of Honigmann's films were Dutch productions, but were 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, as did the International Documentary Film Festival Munich in 2020. Honigmann won the Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2007 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. In November 2011, the Centre Pompidou in Paris held a retrospective showing of all of her films. She toured Europe from 2012 to 2014 performing the art of mime. She graced the stages of many prestigious theaters including the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Palais Garnier, and Great theater of Epidaurus Greece.
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Niederlande is recorded as a place of activity by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Personal life
Personal life
Honigmann spent most of her adult life in the Netherlands, having become a Dutch citizen. She died in Amsterdam on 21 May 2022 at the age of 70.
Filmography
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) • Om de wereld in 50 concerten (International title: Royal orchestra) (2014) • Joke van Leeuwen: Een wereld tussen twee oren (TV) (2017) • Buddy (2018) • 100UP (2020) • Fiction • De deur van het huis (1985) • Hersenschimmen/Mind shadows (1988) • Uw mening graag/Your Opinion, Please (1989) • Goodbye/Tot ziens/Au revoir (1995) • De juiste maat (1998) (TV) • Hanna lacht (2000) (short film)
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Lima.
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Awards
• Golden Calf for Best Long Documentary (2000) for Crazy • Golden Calf for Best Long Documentary (2006) for Forever • Best International Director at the Documentary Edge Festival (2009) for El El Olvido • ShortCutz Amsterdam Career Award (2017)
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- 1.Nancy Ramsey. Giving Voice to Life's Emotion: A Documentarian's Calling. New York Times. 25 September 2003.
- 2.Penelope Green. Heddy Honigmann, Whose Films Told of Loss and Love, Dies at 70. New York Times. 29 May 2022.
- 3.Heddy Honigmann – Poetin des Augenblicks
- 4.Jennie Punter. Hot Docs Festival: Where truths collide. The Globe and Mail. 20 April 2007.
- 5."Frankrijk eert cineaste Heddy Honigmann", in NOS Nieuws, 14 June 2011. In 2012, she spent 2 years living the life of a mime artist. Retrieved on 16 June 2011.
- 6.Walter Addiego. San Francisco International Film Festival / Oblivion. San Francisco Chronicle. 19 April 2009.
- 7.Internationaal geprezen filmmaker Heddy Honigmann (70) overleden
- 8."Frankrijk eert Heddy Honigmann", in HollandDoc, 14 juni 2011. Retrieved on 20 June 2011.
- 9.Heddy Honigmann ontvangt de Shortcutz Amsterdam Career Award , www.filmfestival.nl.
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