Hanro Smitsman Explained

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

Film and Television Credits

Films

• Brothers (2017)
• 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]

External links

• Hanro Smitsman at the Internet Movie Database

Notes and References

1. http://www.eurochannel.com/en/The-Garden-Party-Hanro-Smitsman-Netherlands.html The Garden Party on Eurochannel
2. Web site: Avanca '05 Prizes List . Festival Avanca . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090622184926/http://www.avanca.com/festival_2005_premios.htm . 2009-06-22 .
3. Web site: Short Film Awards, 2007 . Berlin Film Festival.
4. Web site: 2007 films . Brooklyn Film Festival .
5. Web site: 2007 Palm Springs International Festival Of Short Films & Short Film Market Announces Festival Winners . Palm Springs International Short Film Festival . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080420072219/http://www.psfilmfest.org/festival/news/detail.aspx?NID=112&FID=31&year=2007 . 2008-04-20 .
6. Web site: Winners and Jury . Flanders International Film Festival . 2008-12-02 . 2012-10-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121031042313/http://www.filmfestival.be/about2.cgi?go=winners&lang=en . dead .
7. Web site: 2008 Nederlands Film Festival . Nederlands Film Festival .
8. Web site: Winners 2008. Cinema tous ecrans. 2008-12-02. 2012-05-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20120512035327/http://www.cinema-tout-ecran.ch/2008/index.php?lan=en&rubID=50. dead.