Hanneke Niens is a Dutch Oscar nominated producer of films, dramaseries and documentaries and owner and CEO of the production company KeyFilm[1] (2008 - present).

She incidentally guest tutored at the Netherlands Film Academy and the international audiovisual organization EAVE.

During her career Hanneke Niens won numerous awards both as producer and with her companies.

Notable awards are the Golden Calf Best long feature film for De Tweeling (Twin sisters) (2003), an Academy Award nomination Best foreign language film for De Tweeling (2004)[2] and the Prix Europa Television Programme of the Year for the telemovie De uitverkorene (The Chosen One) (2006) and the Prix Europa Special for Cloaca (2005).

[6] Her films have been selected for the international A-festivals Hot Docs, IDFA, Berlinale, San Sebastián, Toronto, Venice and Rotterdam.