Maarten Treurniet (born 21 January 1959) is a Dutch film director.

Biography

Treurniet was born in

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. He moved to

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in 1959 and went to High school in

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from 1971 until 1977. After high school he returned to

and studied chemistry at the University of Amsterdam from 1978 until 1980. After chemistry he studied electronics at the Higher Technical College (H.T.S.). During his electronics study he started doing the sound effects and other sound technical things for a theater group 'Orkater' and he did production of various CDs and LPs. Finally after his studies he went to the Amsterdam College of Arts faculty Film and Television from 1986 until 1990. During his time in the Amsterdam College of Arts faculty Film and Television he directed a Sunday morning show for

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, directed and made the scenario for ''de Nachtwacht'' (six minutes) and ''de Dochter van de Nacht'' (20 minutes), he helped with the direction of a play called ''Parking'' by Olga Zuiderhoek and

Loes Luca Louise "Loes" Diana Wilhelmina Catharina Luca (born 18 October 1953) is a Dutch actress, singer and comedian. She began her career in the 1980s as a stage actress and singer in various musicals. She later started a successful film and television c ...

and he did the screenplay and directed a graduation film'' Het Nadeel van de Twijfel''. In 1990 he earned a degree for directing, editing, camera and sound at the faculty Film and Television. After all of his studies, he did many small projects like short movies and commercials. Later he started making bigger things like series and movies. His work won many prizes. One of the highlights was in 2000. He got a golden 'Fipa' for best actress in Biarritz (France) Film Fesltival, the Juryprice and Best Scenario at the Film Festival d'Amour in Mons (Belgium), a Bronze 'Rosa Camuna' at the Bergamo Film Festival (Italy), the VFF TV-movie Award for Best International Film at the Munich Film Festival (Germany) and Best Actress, Prix de la Jeunesse and the Grand Prix from Genève at

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(film festival in Geneva). Lately he made a big movie titled ''

De Heineken Ontvoering ''The Heineken Kidnapping'' ( nl, De Heineken Ontvoering) is a 2011 Dutch crime film directed by Maarten Treurniet, based on the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken. Cast Premise A bold and amateur kidnapping goes wildly awry in this fictionalized ...

'' (also known as ''The Heineken Kidnapping''). Now Maarten is still working. He is engaged to Marnie Blok and has two children: a boy (Milan) and a girl (Tess).

Filmography

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