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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.
Rolf de Heer was born on 4 May 1951 in Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He is a producer and director, known for Bad Boy Bubby (1993), Ten Canoes (2006) and Charlie's Country (2013).
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- Producer, Director, Writer
- Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
- Rolf de Heer
Apr 27, 2023 · Director Rolf de Heer is one of the greats of Australian cinema. His latest work is "The Survival of Kindness" - a journey through a landscape altered by an unnamed pandemic. Its leading actor, Mwajemi Hussein, is a former African refugee who has never acted before or even set foot in a cinema.
Apr 20, 2023 · Landmark director Rolf de Heer wrote The Survival of Kindness for a man. Then he met the refugee who spent eight years in a camp in Tanzania.
- Stephanie Bunbury
Feb 19, 2023 · Berlin: Rolf de Heer on How COVID and BLM Shaped ‘The Survival of Kindness’ The prolific Australian auteur premiered his fable on racism and colonial exploitation at the 2023 Berlin Film...
May 3, 2023 · Rolf de Heer calls this his “COVID-nimble” film. Faced with the restrictions of pandemic life, he stripped away most of the weight of the film-making apparatus, squeezed a dozen young crew – many of them Indigenous film graduates – into seven 4WD vehicles and took off into the wilds of South Australia and Tasmania.
Rolf de Heer (b. 1951) was born in Heemskerk, Holland, and migrated to Australia with his family in 1959. He spent seven years working for the ABC before gaining entry to Australia's Film, Television and Radio School, where he studied Producing and Directing.
