Rolf de Heer

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Rolf de Heer
Rolf de Heer, Berlinale 2023.jpg
de Heer in 2023
Born (1951-05-04) 4 May 1951 (age 73)
Heemskerk, Netherlands
Alma mater Australian Film, Television and Radio School
Occupations
  • Film director
  • film producer
  • screenwriter
Years active1984–present

Rolf de Heer (born 4 May 1951) is a Dutch Australian film director. De Heer was born in Heemskerk in the Netherlands but migrated to Sydney when he was eight years old. [1] He attended the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in Sydney. His company is called Vertigo Productions and is based in Adelaide. De Heer primarily makes alternative or arthouse films. According to the jacket notes of the videotape, de Heer holds the honor of co-producing and directing the only motion picture, Dingo, in which the jazz legend Miles Davis appears as an actor. Miles Davis collaborated with Michel Legrand on the score.

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De Heer is the subject of the book Dutch Tilt, Aussie Auteur: The Films of Rolf de Heer (First edition – Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM, 2009. Second edition – Ebook: Starrs via Smashwords.com, 2013) by Dr D. Bruno Starrs. A comprehensive study of his films to date, Dancing to His Song: the Singular Cinema of Rolf de Heer by film critic Jane Freebury, is published in ebook and print (Currency Press & Currency House, 2015).

De Heer's 2013 film Charlie's Country was selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. [2]

Filmography

Film

YearTitle Director Writer Producer
1984 Tail of a Tiger YesYesNo
1986 Thank You Jack YesNoYes
1988 Incident at Raven's Gate YesYesYes
1991 Dingo YesNoYes
1993 Bad Boy Bubby YesYesYes
1996 The Quiet Room YesYesYes
1997 Epsilon YesYesYes
1998 Dance Me to My Song YesYesYes
2001 The Old Man Who Read Love Stories YesYesNo
2002 The Tracker YesYesYes
2003 Alexandra's Project YesYesYes
2006 Ten Canoes YesYesYes
2007 Dr. Plonk YesYesYes
2012 The King Is Dead! YesYesYes
2013 Charlie's Country YesYesYes
2016In the Same GardenYesNoNo
2022 The Survival of Kindness YesYesYes

Television and short films

YearTitle Director Writer Producer
2006The Balanda and Bark CanoesYesNoYes
2009 Twelve Canoes YesYesYes

Awards and nominations

Charlie's Country

Ten Canoes

winner for Best Direction, shared with Peter Djigirr
winner for Best Film, (with producer Julie Ryan)
winner for Best Original Screenplay

The Tracker

Bad Boy Bubby

winner for Best Director
winner for Best Original Screenplay

See also

Notes

  1. Mathieson, Craig: "The King is Dead" in The Age, 8 July 2012
  2. "2014 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
  3. "Festival de Cannes: Ten Canoes". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 16 December 2009.
  4. "Flanders International Film Festival: 2006". IMDb. Retrieved 28 July 2007.
  5. "2006 NSW Premier's History Awards & Fellowships". Arts NSW. Archived from the original on 29 August 2007. Retrieved 17 July 2007.

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