
Rolf de Heer
Born: 1951-05-04
Place of birth: 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 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).
Filmography

Best Enemies
1985

Picture
2015

Three Forever
1998

Gary's Story
1983

The Survival of Kindness
2023

Charlie's Country
2013

Cass
1978

Bad Boy Bubby
1993

Gulpilil: One Red Blood
2002

The Tracker
2002

Ten Canoes
2006

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001

Tale of a Tiger
1984

Dr. Plonk
2007

My Name Is Gulpilil
2021

Another Country
2015

Incident at Raven's Gate
1989

Dance Me to My Song
1998