Hillie Molenaar is a documentary

Documentary film

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 film director

Film director

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She left school at 15 and worked as a cleaner, waitress, and bookkeeper before finding her niche as a documentary filmmaker in 1974 when, at the age of 29, she made her first film Protest Garden. She was assistant to the legendary Joris Ivens

Joris Ivens

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 before she formed Molenwiek Film with Joop van Wijk in 1978. Jointly they have produced and directed a dozen award winning documentaries and short films including The Factory (1979) and The Daily Nation (2000). They also produced Xime (Guinea-Bissau, 1994) directed by Sana Na N’Hada, which was an official selection at Cannes Film Festival

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 in Un Certain Regard.

She has since formed her own production company HM Films, and teaches with the Zelig School for Documentary, Television and New Media.

Films

• The Factory (1979)
• Isingiro Hospital (1993)
• Crossroads (1997)
• The Daily Nation (2000)

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