Peter Tetteroo (born 1963) is a Dutch

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and filmmaker. Tetteroo has worked as a senior director for world wide broadcasters since 1987. He has travelled to many countries in

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and

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and

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. Tetteroo has received international awards for reports made throughout the world. In 2001 he received the International

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of the

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, for a documentary, ''Welcome to North Korea.'' He frequently writes about

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s and international relations for

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s and

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Filmography

;Documentary and Short films * ''The Fall of the Berlin Wall'' (

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, 1989) * ''Frontline Hospital'' (KRO, 1993) * ''Saddams Sons in Law'' (KRO, 1996) * ''Missing – Bosnia and Herzegovina'' (KRO, 1997) * ''Spartak Moscow, the story behind it'' (

AVRO AVRO, short for Algemene Vereniging Radio Omroep ("General Association of Radio Broadcasting"), was a Dutch public broadcasting association operating within the framework of the Nederlandse Publieke Omroep system. It was the first public broad ...

, 1998) * ''Welcome to North Korea'' (KRO, 2001) * ''Letters from Jilava'' (AVRO, 2003) * ''Baghdad Shrine'' (AVRO, 2003) * ''Israeli Fighter Pilots'' (KRO, 2004) * ''The Single Leg Amputee Sports Club'' (KRO, 2005) * ''Journey into the Unknown'' (Tetteroo Media, 2006) * ''The Death of Obbe Terpstra'' (Tetteroo Media, 2007) * ''The Comfort Zone'' (Tetteroo Media, 2007) * ''Micro Insurance in Practice'' (Tetteroo Media, 2008) * ''Growing up in Juarez'' (Tetteroo Media, 2010) * ''Campaign Doctors Without Borders'' (Lemz, 2010) * ''How to become a president'' (Lokaal Mondiaal, 2010)

Awards

* '' Banff World Television Festival, Best Documentary'' (1995) * ''

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, Silver Dove'' (1998) * ''

, Best International Documentary'' (2001) * ''Dutch Academy Awards, Best Documentary'' (2001) * ''Dutch Academy Awards, Best Documentary'' (2003)

References

External links

Tetteroo Media
Brooke Gladstone interview with the filmmaker. * Living people Dutch film directors Dutch journalists 1963 births {{netherlands-journalist-stub