Hans Quatfass

Born in 1951, Hans Quatfass graduated with honors from the Amsterdam Film Academy. Since then he has made hundreds of films and television programs. At first these were mainly on social topics, such as prisoners, step-families and the dilemma facing "bystanders" in child-abuse cases. Tanny, a film about child abuse, won a first prize at the Oberhausen Festival. Quatfass later worked on many children's programs. One of these, Vol Super, was nominated for the Kinderkast Prize. In 1988, Quatfass became a co-founder of RQB group, a team producing programs on cultural and social subjects for TV and other media. His film Beugels ("Braces") won a Sony Award and at the Dutch Film Days he received the Eadward Muybridge Award for Kinderen met een Schisis ("Children With a Cleft Palate"). He also was nominated for the Princes' Award, a European prize for the best multimedia project about our environment. With RQB he produced -I'm alive because I sing- (director Patrick Bisschops) In 2006 this documentary won the Special Prix Europa, The prize for the best European TV documentary. Hans Quatfass makes long and short documentaries and scientific films. As part of the Carbid Project, he also supervises young filmmakers producing their first documentary. Hans Quatfass also is leading director for the SeaTV project (Television made for and by seafarers).