{{Short description|Peruvian-born Dutch film director (1951–2022)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Heddy Honigmann | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1951|10|01|df=yes}} | birth_place = Lima, Peru | death_date = {{death date and age|2022|05|21|1951|10|01|df=y}} | death_place = Amsterdam, Netherlands | citizenship = Peruvian, Dutch | occupation = Film director | website = {{URL|www.heddy-honigmann.nl}} }}
'''Heddy Honigmann''' (1 October 1951 – 21 May 2022) was a Peruvian-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.<ref name=NewYork>{{cite news |title= Giving Voice to Life's Emotion: A Documentarian's Calling |author= Nancy Ramsey |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/25/movies/giving-voice-to-life-s-emotion-a-documentarian-s-calling.html?src=pm |newspaper= New York Times |date= 25 September 2003 |accessdate=14 January 2011}}</ref> Her mother, Sarah Pach Miller, an actress and homemaker, was from Poland; her father, Witold Honigmann Weiss, an artist and illustrator, was from Vienna.<ref name=NewYorkTimes>{{cite news |title= Heddy Honigmann, Whose Films Told of Loss and Love, Dies at 70 |author= Penelope Green |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/29/movies/heddy-honigmann-dead.html |newspaper= New York Times |date= 29 May 2022 |accessdate= 30 May 2022}}</ref>
== 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,<ref name=NewYork/> as did the International Documentary Film Festival Munich in 2020.<ref>[https://www.dokfest-muenchen.de/Retrospective_Heddy_Honigmann?ref=news ''Heddy Honigmann – Poetin des Augenblicks'']</ref> Honigmann won the Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2007 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.<ref>{{cite news |title= Hot Docs Festival: Where truths collide |author= Jennie Punter |url= https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/article754558.ece |newspaper= The Globe and Mail |date= 20 April 2007 |accessdate=14 January 2011}}</ref> In November 2011, the Centre Pompidou in Paris held a retrospective showing of all of her films.<ref>{{in lang|nl}} "[http://nos.nl/artikel/248207-frankrijk-eert-cineaste-heddy-honigmann.html 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.</ref> 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,<ref name=NewYork/> having become a Dutch citizen.<ref>{{cite news |title= San Francisco International Film Festival / Oblivion |author= Walter Addiego |url= https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/San-Francisco-International-Film-Festival-3164748.php |newspaper= San Francisco Chronicle |date= 19 April 2009 |access-date=14 January 2011}}</ref> She died in Amsterdam on 21 May 2022 at the age of 70.<ref>[https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2022/05/22/internationaal-geprezen-filmmaker-heddy-honigmann-70-overleden-a4125169 Internationaal geprezen filmmaker Heddy Honigmann (70) overleden]</ref>
==Filmography==
{{Col begin}} {{Col 2}} ;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) {{Col 2}} ;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) {{Col end}}
==Awards== *Golden Calf for Best Long Documentary (2000) for ''Crazy''<ref name="hollanddoc">{{in lang|nl}} "[http://www.hollanddoc.nl/nieuws/2011/juni/frankrijk-eert-heddy-honigmann.html Frankrijk eert Heddy Honigmann]", in ''HollandDoc'', 14 juni 2011. Retrieved on 20 June 2011.</ref> *Golden Calf for Best Long Documentary (2006) for ''Forever''<ref name="hollanddoc"/> * Best International Director at the Documentary Edge Festival (2009) for El El Olvido * ShortCutz Amsterdam Career Award (2017)<ref>[https://www.filmfestival.nl/publiek/nieuws/januari-2018/heddy-honigmann-ontvangt-de-shortcutz-amsterdam-career-award/ Heddy Honigmann ontvangt de Shortcutz Amsterdam Career Award] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180507221438/https://www.filmfestival.nl/publiek/nieuws/januari-2018/heddy-honigmann-ontvangt-de-shortcutz-amsterdam-career-award/ |date=7 May 2018 }}, www.filmfestival.nl.</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.heddy-honigmann.nl/ Homepage Heddy Honigmann] *[http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4051:directing-intuition-when-you-are-making-a-film-leave-the-window-open&catid=689:november-2010&Itemid=332&lang=en Interview with Heddy on eRenlai.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718141005/http://www.erenlai.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4051:directing-intuition-when-you-are-making-a-film-leave-the-window-open&catid=689:november-2010&Itemid=332&lang=en |date=18 July 2011 }} *{{IMDb name|0393322|Heddy Honigmann}}
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