Hanro Smitsman

Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda (Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.

Film and Television Credits

Films

• Schemer (2010)
• Skin (2008)
• Raak (aka Contact) (2006)
• Allerzielen (aka All Souls) (2005) (segment "Groeten uit Holland")
• Engel en Broer (2004)
• 2000 Terrorists (2004)
• Dajo (2003)
• Gloria (2000)
• Depoep (2001)

Television

• 20 leugens, 4 ouders en een scharrelei (2013)
• De ontmaskering van de vastgoedfraude (TV mini-series, 2013)
• Moordvrouw (2012-)
• Eileen (2 episodes, 2011)
• Getuige (2011)
• Vakantie in eigen land (2011)
• De Reis van meneer van Leeuwen(2010)^[1]
• De Punt (2009)
• Roes (2 episodes, 2008)
• Fok jou! (2006)
• Van Speijk (2006)

Awards

In 2005, Engel en Broer won Cinema Prize for Short Film at the Avanca Film Festival.^[2]

In 2007, Raak (aka Contact) won the Golden Berlin Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival,^[3] the Spirit Award at the Brooklyn Film Festival,^[4] the first place jury prize for "Best Live Action under 15 minutes" at the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival,^[5] and the Prix UIP Ghent Award for European Short Films at the Flanders International Film Festival.^[6]

In 2008, Skin won the Movie Squad Award at the Nederlands Film Festival, an actor in the film also won the Best Actor Award.^[7] It also won the Reflet d’Or for Best Film at the Cinema tous ecrans Festival in Geneva in the same year.^[8]

References

External links

• Hanro Smitsman at the Internet Movie Database