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Willy Lindwer
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Emmy Award Winning Director Willy Lindwer has earned world-wide recognition as a documentary filmmaker.

During a period of over three decades Willy Lindwer has produced numerous documentary films and series on a wide range of topics, including: Art, Social issues, History, The Holocaust, Israel and the Middle East and Africa.

The Willy Lindwer Film & Video Collection currently consists of 43 documentary films and series. The Willy Lindwer Collection is available for world-wide distribution: television and broadcast, DVD home video, educational and non-theatrical and theatrical. Contact us for more information.

Willy Lindwer is also a widely published author of books and articles.
He is a popular lecturer on filmmaking and the Holocaust and is invited to speak in conjunction with the screening of his films.

Shimon Peres

Mr. Israel, The Shimon Peres Story, produced in 2008, tells the compelling history of the State of Israel through the eyes of Israel’s octogenarian president who has been forging Israel’s destiny since its founding in 1948.

Willy Lindwer, conducted an exclusive interview with Mr. Peres on the eve of the celebration of Israel’s 60th Independence Day in which Peres revealed many previously untold tales of his life and career. Lindwer also interviewed Peres’ daughter Zvia in a rare appearance, and close friend, Al Schwimmer, who helped bring vital weapons to Israel in its early years and later built Israel’s world-class aircraft industry. Lindwer spoke with Peres confidant and biographer, Michael Bar-Zohar, with Peres’ political enemy Benjamin Netanyahu and with the senior Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat.

 

Goodbye Holland

The Temple Mount is Mine

Messengers Without an Audience

The Destruction of Dutch Jewry
Uncovering the "Holiest hot-spot on Earth"
Eye witnesses who brought the first devastating reports about the Nazi atrocities to the West
 

Africa Goes Digital

Currently in Production:

Four films about Israel's slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
Examining four countries in Africa on the different approaches and the attempts to bridge the digital divide
 

And many more films by Willy Lindwer...

International Emmy Award
Willy Lindwer's major breakthrough came in 1988 in the US, when he was awarded with the International Emmy Award for his documentary 'The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank'.

In 1993 he won 'the Grand Prix of the Dutch Film Industry' in the category 'best documentary' for another major Holocaust documentary: 'Child in Two Worlds' the story of Jewish War Orphans.

For his film 'Simon Wiesenthal, Freedom is Not a Gift from Heaven' he was the Dutch nominee for the International Emmy Award for Best Documentary in the year 1994.

He is an Israel Academy Award candidate for 'Goodbye Holland' in 2005.

Willy Lindwer has also received many other awards for his films.


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