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Rolf de Heer
Heemskerk, The Netherlands
Rolf de Heer (born 4 May 1951; Heemskerk, North Holland) is a Australian film director. De Heer was born in Heemskerk in the Netherlands but migrated to Sydney when he was eight…
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Rolf de Heer (born 4 May 1951; Heemskerk, North Holland) is a Australian film director. De Heer was born in Heemskerk in the Netherlands but migrated to Sydney when he was eight years old. 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. He 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).
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2024
A Portrait of Love
Movie Producer
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2023
The Survival of Kindness
Movie Director
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2021
My Name Is Gulpilil
Movie Writer
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2020
Running With Crutches
Movie Producer
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2018
The Waiting Room
Movie Producer
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2017
Youth on the March
Movie Thanks
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2016
In the Same Garden
Movie Writer
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2015
Picture
Movie Production Assistant
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2015
Another Country
Movie Producer
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2014
Still Our Country
Movie Producer
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2013
Charlie's Country
Movie Director
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2012
The King Is Dead!
Movie Director
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2009
Twelve Canoes
Movie Director
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2007
Dr. Plonk
Movie Director
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2006
The Balanda and the Bark Canoes
Movie Self - Narrator
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2006
Ten Canoes
Movie Writer
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2003
Alexandra's Project
Movie Writer
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2002
The Tracker
Movie Director
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2002
Gulpilil: One Red Blood
Movie Self
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2001
Serenades
Movie Script Editor
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2001
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Movie Director
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1999
Spank!
Movie Producer
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1998
Three Forever
Movie Producer
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1998
Dance Me to My Song
Movie Director
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1998
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Movie Producer
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1997
Alien Visitor
Movie Director
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1996
The Quiet Room
Movie Director
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1993
Bad Boy Bubby
Movie Director
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1991
Dingo
Movie Director
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1989
Incident at Raven's Gate
Movie Director
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1986
Thank You Jack
Movie Director
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1985
Best Enemies
Movie Script Consultant
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1984
Tale of a Tiger
Movie Writer
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1983
Gary's Story
Movie Producer
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1980
Tread Softly
Movie Producer
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1979
Tasmania's South West: A Wilderness in Question
Movie Producer
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1979
The Audition
Movie Director
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1978
Cass
Movie Assistant Director
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1978
The Colonel
Movie Director
