Draft:Vincent Monnikendam


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Vincent Monnikendam (1936 – 15 March 2024) was a Dutch film director, television editor and anthropologist. At the 1995 Netherlands Film Festival he won the Golden Calf for Best Long Documentary.

Biography
Monnikendam was born in The Hague in 1936 as the son of actor Marius Monnikendam.

Monnikendam worked for the Dutch public broadcasting: from 1963 to 1966 for the Katholieke Radio Omroep afterwards from 1966 to 1995 for the Nederlandse Televisie Stichting that became the Nederlandse Omroep Stichting where he worked as a documentary maker, producer, editor-in-chief and commissioning editor. After 1995 he became an independent documentary maker.

Most of his films are about social themes like immigration and race issues. Monnikendam lived on location for months before he started filming his documentary. The biggest achievement of Monnikendam was with his documentary Moeder Dao de Schildpadgelijkende depicting signs of colonial exploitation of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). He won the Golden Calf at the 1995 Netherlands Film Festival and also multiple foreign awards. This documentary was highlited at 2010 Telluride Film Festival. In 2005 he made the cinema documentary Zielen van Napels. Other films he made are Rayon 69 (1982), Lijn 6 (1983), De tiende penning (1985) and De illegalen (1991).

Next to his work he studied cultural anthropology and graduated from the Utrecht University in 1987.

He died due to a scooter accident in The Hague on 15 March 2024, at the age of 87.