Dutch

Heddy Honigmann is considered one of world’s best documentary filmmakers. Her films (short & long fictions, short & long documentaries) have travelled around the world receiving major awards and important retrospectives (Toronto, the Museum of Modern Art in NY, Paris, Berlin, Lisboa, Minneapolis, Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Ontario, Utrecht, Grasz, Chicago and Berkeley, among others). She has received many lifetime achievement awards, like 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) in the Netherlands, the award for her Contribution to the Art of Documentary Filmmaking at the Thessaloniki Film Festival (2004), and the Jan Cassies Award for her whole oeuvre from the Dutch National Fund for Cultural Films for Television (2003) in the Netherlands.

Daniel Lambo is a filmmaker from Belgium. He started his career as a writer for theater, television and cinema. As a director, Lambo shifted his attention towards social themes. His renewed approach to filmmaking—both intuitive and socially engaged—inspired him to start his own production company, Lambo Films.

A belga dokumentumfilmes Daniel Lambo íróként kezdte a munkásságát, színházaknak, tévében és filmekben dolgozott. Rendezőként kezdett csak el érdeklődni a társadalmi témák iránt. Újszerű, ösztönös és elhivatott filmes munkájához saját produkciós irodát is indított Lambo Films néven.

Ton van Zantvoort graduated from the Academy for Visual Arts in Breda in 2003, and works as director, cinematographer and editor. His films have been screened at numerous festivals and were broadcast by VPRO, ARTE/ZDF and Al Jazeera. Besides documentary features, van Zantvoort has made multiple short films. He also gives masterclasses, and was a jury member for several international film festivals and at Panasonic International.