PETER VAN HOUTEN
FILMPRODUCTIES

 

director, film editor, drama, documentary

 
Peter van Houten filmproducties
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Contact

Film & TV director/editor Peter van Houten is experienced in drama, documentary and studio-directing. He works for TV, (post)production companies, and also is directing and cutting corporates, commercials and on-line videos.

For further information please contact Peter:

Mobile +31(0)6-55 766 101
info@petervanhouten.nl


   

Recent Work

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Peter is working on a documentary called ‘the Disappearance of Anton Janssen’, a short documentary (25 minutes) which tries to unfold what happened to the 26 year old Dutch Anton Janssen at the end of the war. Anton Janssen was arrested by a German patrol, after a shoot out near Dreumel, when this area of Holland was no-man’s-land in 1944. Anton was arrested and taken to the headquarters of the German Sicherheitsdienst in the town of Utrecht, which was notorious for it’s brutal treatment of ‘terrorists’. What happened to Anton during the last days of his life?


Editing Equipment

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Peter is editing on Final Cut Pro X and Avid Media Composer.
Peter works in his studio in Utrecht or if you want on location.

About Peter

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Peter van Houten went to Amsterdam Filmschool, graduating in directing drama, editing and production. Since 1988 Peter worked as a freelance director, film and TV editor for different broadcasters and film companies and was also TV director of talkshows.

From 1998 until 2006 he worked as a director and producer for Zest Pictures Rotterdam. In 2009, Peter and cameraman/director Mark Bakker worked in Docman Film & Concept, and they went producing commercials, branded content and online video’s.

Peter worked as an editor for 'Bloedverwanten' (AVRO 2010) and 't Vrije Schaep' (KRO 2009, winner Nipkov-award, a Dutch TV price for best drama), both successful drama series on Dutch national TV.

He is also an experienced editor for documentary, some titles: Later (2008), Ivo, de unauthorized biography of a gorilla (2007) a film from director Annick van Wijk and Bigger than James Dean (nomination best documentary 2004 Dutch Film Festival), a film from director Frank Krom.

Music documentary

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Peter's documentary In the Daytime the Stars Will Shine, about Rolan Bolan, the son of glamrock-icon Marc Bolan (T.Rex), won the Karl Malden award for best documentary at the International Thunderbird Filmfestival of Utah, US. Watch the movie!