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Jaap van Hoewijk (1963-2020)

Birthplace:
Rotterdam, Netherlands

Born:
February 12, 1963

Died:
April 26, 2020

Biography from TheMovieDB

Born in 1963 and died in 2020, documentary maker Jaap van Hoewijk was known for documentaries such as Killing Time, Kleine Delicten and Piet is Weg. Van Hoewijk not only became known as a director, but also worked as a researcher, producer and screenwriter.  Many of Jaap van Hoewijk's documentaries have been about unsolved cases and mortality from the start of his career. For his debut film Procedure 769 (1995), he spoke to witnesses to the execution of murderer Robert Alton Harris.  In the documentary Family Secret (2001) he investigated the cause of death of his own father, whom he had thought for twenty-three years had died in an accident. Killing Time (2013) works towards an execution in Texas. And his latest film, Piet is gone (2017), is about the unsolved disappearance of Piet Beentjes, who was last seen on April 26, 1987 when he boarded the ferry to Texel.

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Film Production

Director:
1995  Procedure 769: The Witnesses to an Execution
2012  Kill Your Darling
2013  Killing Time
2018  Piet is Gone

Producer:
1995  Procedure 769: The Witnesses to an Execution
2005  Foreland
2007  A Lapse of Memory
2012  Kill Your Darling
2013  Killing Time
2018  Piet is Gone

Writer:
1995  Procedure 769: The Witnesses to an Execution
2005  Foreland
2007  A Lapse of Memory
2012  Kill Your Darling
2013  Killing Time
2018  Piet is Gone

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