Rolf de Heer

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Rolf de Heer
Born	May 9, 1951 Heemskerk, The Netherlands
Occupation	Director, Producer and Writer
Awards won Australian Film Institute Awards Best Director 1993 Bad Boy Bubby 2006 Ten Canoes Best Picture 2006 Ten Canoes Best Original Screenplay 1993 Bad Boy Bubby 2006 Ten Canoes

Rolf de Heer (born 4 May 1951) is an Australian Film director, writer and producer. 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.

Contents 1 Awards and Nominations 1.1 Bad Boy Bubby 1.2 Ten Canoes 2 Filmography 3 Notes 4 References 5 See also 6 External links

[edit] Awards and Nominations

[edit] Bad Boy Bubby

• 1994 Australian Film Institute awards:

- winner for Best Director

- winner for Best Original Screenplay

- nominated for Best Film

[edit] Ten Canoes

• 2006 winner of the NSW History Awards, The Premier's Audio/Visual History Prize^[1]
• 2006 Australian Film Institute Awards:

- winner for Best Direction, shared with Peter Djigirr

- winner for Best Film, shared with Julie Ryan

- winner for Best Original Screenplay

• 2006 Cannes Film Festival - winner of "Un Certain Regard" - Special Jury Prize
• Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards 2006:

- nominated for Best Director, shared with Peter Djigirr

- nominated for Best Original Screenplay

• 2006 Flanders International Film Festival^[2] - winner of the Grand Prix, shared with Peter Djigirr
• 2006 IF Awards:

- winner of the award for Best Director, with Peter Djigirr

- nominated for the Best Feature Film, with Peter Djigirr (co-director), Julie Ryan (producer) and Richard Birrinbirrin (co-producer)

- nominated for the Best Script

• 2007 Mar del Plata Film Festival - nominated for the Best Film award, shared with Peter Djigirr

[edit] Filmography

• Encounter at Raven's Gate (1988)
• Dingo (1991)
• Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
• The Quiet Room (1996)
• Epsilon (1997)
• Dance me to my Song (1998)
• The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1998)
• Spank (1999)
• The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2000)
• The Tracker (2002)
• Alexandra's Project (2003)
• Ten Canoes (2006)
• Dr Plonk (2007)

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

• 2006 NSW Premier’s History Awards & Fellowships Arts NSW, (Retrieved July 17, 2007)
• Awards for Rolf de Heer IMBd, (Retrieved July 28, 2007)

[edit] See also

• List of Australian films

[edit] External links

• Rolf de Heer at the Internet Movie Database
• Vertigo Website

Persondata
NAME	Heer, Rolf de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Film director, writer, producer
DATE OF BIRTH	4 May 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heemskerk, The Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH