Hanneke Niens

Hanneke Niens (born 10 October 1965) 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[1] and with her company KeyFilm.[2][3] Notable awards are the Golden Calf Best long feature film for De Tweeling (2003),[4] an Academy Award nomination Best foreign language film for De Tweeling (2004)[5] and the Prix Europa Television Programme of the Year for the telemovie De uitverkorene (The Chosen One) (2006).[6] In 2007 Pierre Bokma won an International Emmy Award for his role in this movie.[7] Box office hits Soof and Soof 2 were both awarded the Platinum Film.[8] 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.[9]
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.

Hanneke Niens
Hanneke Niens in 2016
Born	(1965-10-10) 10 October 1965
Nationality	Dutch
Occupation	Film producer, Television producer
Years active	1999 – present
Notable work	Twin Sisters Cloaca Godforsaken Soof