Rolf de Heer
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 4, 1951, Heemskerk, The Netherlands
- Movies
- 35
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 Movies
Filmography
| 2006 | The Balanda and the Bark Canoes | Self - Narrator |
| 2002 | Gulpilil: One Red Blood | Self |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2024 | A Portrait of Love | Producer |
| 2023 | The Survival of Kindness | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2021 | My Name Is Gulpilil | Writer, Producer |
| 2020 | Running With Crutches | Producer |
| 2018 | The Waiting Room | Producer |
| 2016 | In the Same Garden | Writer, Director |
| 2015 | Another Country | Producer, Writer |
| 2014 | Still Our Country | Producer |
| 2013 | Charlie's Country | Writer, Director, Producer |
| 2012 | The King Is Dead! | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2009 | Twelve Canoes | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 2007 | Dr. Plonk | Director, Producer, Screenplay, Writer |
| 2006 | The Balanda and the Bark Canoes | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2006 | Ten Canoes | Writer, Director, Producer |
| 2003 | Alexandra's Project | Writer, Director, Producer |
| 2002 | The Tracker | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2001 | The Old Man Who Read Love Stories | Director, Screenplay |
| 1999 | Spank! | Producer |
| 1998 | Three Forever | Producer |
| 1998 | Dance Me to My Song | Writer, Director, Producer |
| 1998 | The Sound of One Hand Clapping | Producer |
| 1997 | Alien Visitor | Producer, Writer, Director |
| 1996 | The Quiet Room | Director, Producer, Screenplay |
| 1993 | Bad Boy Bubby | Producer, Writer, Director |
| 1991 | Dingo | Director, Producer |
| 1989 | Incident at Raven's Gate | Writer, Director, Producer |
| 1986 | Thank You Jack | Producer, Director |
| 1984 | Tale of a Tiger | Writer, Director |
| 1983 | Gary's Story | Producer |
| 1980 | Tread Softly | Producer |
| 1979 | The Audition | Producer, Director |
| 1979 | Tasmania's South West: A Wilderness in Question | Producer |
| 1978 | The Colonel | Writer, Director |
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