Puck de Leeuw (1953 - 8 February 2002) was a Dutch director.
She gained most fame with her series ''Love beyond frontiers'', describing European women who have fallen in love with men from completely different cultural backgrounds and decided go to their homes. The first documentary of the series brought her the 'Golden Zapper', the Audience Award for best documentary at the 1996
International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is the world's largest documentary film festival held annually since 1988 in Amsterdam. Over a period of twelve days, it has screened more than 300 films and sold more than 250,000 tic ...
.
De Leeuw died of
lung cancer
Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma (since about 98–99% of all lung cancers are carcinomas), is a malignant lung tumor characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissue (biology), tissues of the lung. Lung carcinomas derive from tran ...
at the age of 48 in 2002 before she could finish the third entry, ''Made in America''. ''Een jaar of minder'' is a 2006
documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...
about her by director Jac Vleeshouwers.
Documentary films
* Het gebeurde in de polder (''It happened in the polder'') (1985)
De Leeuw's movies at NFF Filmarchief
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* Love beyond frontiers (Grenzeloze liefde) – Made in Japan (1996)
* Love beyond frontiers (Grenzeloze liefde) – Made in Africa (1999)
External links
* Love beyond frontiers - Made in Japan
* Love beyond frontiers - Made in Africa
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Leeuw, Puck De
1953 births
2002 deaths
Dutch documentary filmmakers
Dutch women film directors
Deaths from lung cancer in the Netherlands
Women documentary filmmakers