Heddy Honigmann

Peruvian-born Dutch film director (1951–2022)

Heddy Honigmann
Born	(1951-10-01)1 October 1951 Lima, Peru
Died	21 May 2022(2022-05-21) (aged 70) Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citizenship	Dutch
Occupation	Film director
Website	www.heddy-honigmann.nl

Heddy Honigmann (1 October 1951 – 21 May 2022) was a Peruvian-born Dutch film director of fictional and documentary films.

Early life and education

Honigmann was born on 1 October 1951 in Lima, Peru, to Jewish refugees.^[1] Her mother, Sarah Pach Miller, an actress and homemaker, was from Poland; her father, Witold Honigmann Weiss, an artist and illustrator, was from Vienna.^[2]

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,^[1] as did the International Documentary Film Festival Munich in 2020.^[3] Honigmann won the Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2007 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.^[4] In November 2011, the Centre Pompidou in Paris held a retrospective showing of all of her films.^[5] 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.

Personal life

Honigmann spent most of her adult life in the Netherlands,^[1] having become a Dutch citizen.^[6] She died in Amsterdam on 21 May 2022 at the age of 70.^[7]

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)

Awards

Golden Calf for Best Long Documentary (2000) for Crazy^[8]
Golden Calf for Best Long Documentary (2006) for Forever^[8]
Best International Director at the Documentary Edge Festival (2009) for El El Olvido
ShortCutz Amsterdam Career Award (2017)^[9]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Nancy Ramsey (25 September 2003). "Giving Voice to Life's Emotion: A Documentarian's Calling". New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
^ Penelope Green (29 May 2022). "Heddy Honigmann, Whose Films Told of Loss and Love, Dies at 70". New York Times. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
^ Heddy Honigmann – Poetin des Augenblicks
^ Jennie Punter (20 April 2007). "Hot Docs Festival: Where truths collide". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
^ (in Dutch) "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.
^ Walter Addiego (19 April 2009). "San Francisco International Film Festival / Oblivion". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
^ Internationaal geprezen filmmaker Heddy Honigmann (70) overleden
^ ^a ^b (in Dutch) "Frankrijk eert Heddy Honigmann", in HollandDoc, 14 juni 2011. Retrieved on 20 June 2011.
^ Heddy Honigmann ontvangt de Shortcutz Amsterdam Career Award Archived 7 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine, www.filmfestival.nl.