Hanneke Niens

Hanneke Niens (The Hague, 10 October 1965) is a Dutch Oscar nominated television and film producer. She is owner and CEO of the production company KeyFilm (2008 - present) and before founder and producer of IDTV Film (2000 - 2008). She is incidentally guest tutor at the Netherlands Film Academy and the international audiovisual organization EAVE. During her career Hanneke Niens won numerous awards both as producer and with her companies. Notable awards are the Golden Calf Best long feature film for De Tweeling (Twin sisters) (2003), an Academy Award nomination Best foreign language film for De Tweeling (2004) and the Prix Europa Television Programme of the Year for the telemovie De uitverkorene (The Chosen One) (2006). In 2007 Pierre Bokma won an International Emmy Award for his role in this movie. Box office hits Soof, Soof 2 and Soof 3 were all awarded the Platinum Film. 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.Her films have been selected for the international A-festivals Hot Docs, IDFA, Berlinale, San Sebastián, Toronto, Venice and Rotterdam.

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 to 2010, she was board member of Film Producers Netherlands.