Heddy
Honigmann is a Peruvian-born acclaimed filmmaker who has been living and
working in The Netherlands since 1978.
Her films
(short and long documentaries, but also short fictions and feature films) have
travelled all around the world in festivals and retrospectives, such as in
Toronto, Paris, Berlin, Lisbon, Minneapolis, Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia,
Ontario, Utrecht, Grasz, Chicago, Berkeley and the Museum of Modern Art in New
York.
She has
received major awards for her films and also career honours such as the Living
Legend Award at IDFA (2013), the Dortmund Honorary Award for Documentary Film
(2013), the Hot Docs Outstanding Achievement Award (2007), the San Francisco
Films Society’s Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award (2007), the J. Van
Praag Award from the Humanist Association (2005) Netherlands, the award for her
Contribution to the Art of Documentary Filmmaking at the Thessaloniki Film
Festival (2004) Greece, the Jan Cassies award from the Dutch National Fund for
Cultural Films for Television (2003) Netherlands.
She has also
been lecturing in master classes, seminars and workshops in Berlin, Rome,
Beijing and The Netherlands.
Films :
Metal and Melancholy
Producer : Suzanne van Voorst
Writers : Peter Delpeut, Heddy
Honigmann
Cinematography : Stef Tijdink
Initial release : 1993
Running time : 80min
Country : Peru
Language : Spanish
