Jos de Putter is a Dutch film director, film critic and screenwriter who primarily makes documentaries. He studied political science and literature at the University of Leiden, and was a member of the editorial staff of the film magazine Skrien. He has also worked on a number of Dutch television programs and has written film critique for various Dutch newspapers and magazines.

His documentaries have been shown at many film festivals, and his debut film, Het is een schone dag geweest, won the City of Utrecht Film Prize at the Dutch Film Festival. This documentary has been included in the Dutch Film Canon. He won the Joris Ivens Prize at the IDFA for Solo, de wet van de favela and the Teheran Film Festival Jury Prize for Nagasaki

Nagasaki

is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan. Nagasaki was founded by the Portuguese in the second half of the 16th century on the site of a small fishing village, formerly part of Nishisonogi District...

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Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

 International Documentary Film Festival featured a retrospective tribute to De Putter’s work in 2003.

De Putter played a part in the Heddy Honigmann film Tot ziens and ‘discovered’ the Brazilian footballer Leonardo Vitor Santiago, whom he cast as the star of Solo, de wet van de favela at the age of 11.

He wrote and directed Beyond the Game

Beyond the Game

Beyond the Game is a 2008 Dutch documentary film about the world of professional video gaming, most notably as related to the game Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne featuring world champion players Chinese Xiaofeng Li , Dutch Manuel Schenkhuizen and Swede Fredrik Johansson prominently. It is...

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