Hanneke Niens
Hanneke Niens is a Dutch television, documentary and film producer. She is also a guest tutor at the Netherlands Film Academy and the international audiovisual organization EAVE.
During her career Hanneke Niens won numerous awards both as producer and with her company KeyFilm. Notable awards are the Golden Calf Best long feature film for De Tweeling, an Academy Award nomination Best foreign language film for De Tweeling and the Prix Europa Television Programme of the Year for the telemovie De uitverkorene . In 2007 Pierre Bokma won an International Emmy Award for his role in this movie. Box office hits Soof and Soof 2 were both awarded the Platinum Film. In 2018 her international co-production The Reports on Sarah and Saleem won the Special Jury Award for Best Scenario and the HBF Audience Award on the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Her films have been selected for the international A-festivals Hot Docs, IDFA, Berlinale, San Sebastián, Toronto and Locarno.
Hanneke is member of the European Producers Club, European Film Academy and member of the supervisory board of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. From 2004-2010 she was board member of Film Producers Netherlands.Selected filmography
Feature films
