Hillie Molenaar is a Dutch documentary film director.

Career

Molenaar left school at 15 and worked as a cleaner, waitress, and bookkeeper before finding her niche as a documentary filmmaker in 1974 when, at the age of 29, she made her first film Protest Garden. She was assistant to the Joris Ivens before she formed Molenwiek Film with Joop van Wijk in 1978. Jointly they have produced and directed many documentaries and short films, including The Factory (1979) and The Daily Nation (2000).^{[citation needed]}

They also produced Xime (Guinea-Bissau, 1994) directed by Sana Na N’Hada, which was an official selection at Cannes Film Festival in Un Certain Regard.^[1]

She has since^[when?] formed her own production company HM Films, and teaches at the Zelig School for Documentary, Television and New Media.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

As director:

• The Factory (1979)
• Isingiro Hospital (1993)
• Crossroads (1997)
• The Daily Nation (2000), about the Kenyan newspaper The Daily Nation