Director
Rolf de Heer
75 years · Heemskerk, The Netherlands · 28 films
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).
Best known for
Filmography 28
A Portrait of Love
2024 · Producer
The Survival of Kindness
2023 · Director, Producer
My Name Is Gulpilil
2021 · Writer, Producer
Running With Crutches
2020 · Producer
In the Same Garden
2016 · Writer, Director
Another Country
2015 · Producer, Writer
Still Our Country
2014 · Producer
Charlie's Country
2013 · Director, Writer
On Brew
The King Is Dead!
2012 · Director, Producer
Twelve Canoes
2009 · Director, Writer
Dr. Plonk
2007 · Director, Screenplay
The Balanda and the Bark Canoes
2006 · Self - Narrator, Director
Ten Canoes
2006 · Writer, Director
Alexandra's Project
2003 · Writer, Director
The Tracker
2002 · Writer, Director
Gulpilil: One Red Blood
2002 · Self
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001 · Director, Screenplay
Spank!
1999 · Producer
Three Forever
1998 · Producer
Dance Me to My Song
1998 · Producer, Writer
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
1998 · Producer
Alien Visitor
1997 · Writer, Director
The Quiet Room
1996 · Director, Producer
Bad Boy Bubby
1993 · Producer, Director
On Philo