Hanna van Niekerk (born in La-Paz, Bolivia, 1991) is a Dutch filmmaker based in
Amsterdam. Hanna graduated with honors from the Utrecht School of the Arts in
2014. Her graduation film ‘And They Lived’ (En Ze Leefden Nog Lang) won the
Wildcard Fiction Price from the Netherlands Film Fund in 2014. The film also won
‘Best Film’ at the Eindhoven Film Festival in 2014. Recently Hanna wrote and directed
her first feature film ‘If the Sun Explodes’, produced by Hazazah Pictures. Her debut
film premiered in September 2016 at the Netherlands Film Festival, where it won the
MovieZone Award.