Leonard Retel Helmrich

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

-

Birthday

1959-08-16 (66 years old)

Place of Birth

Tilburg

Leonard Retel Helmrich

Biography

Leonard Retel Helmrich is a Dutch filmmaker who worked as a drama director and cameraman in the Netherlands before going to Indonesia to make a series of documentaries that have won awards world wide. His most famous film Shape Of The Moon won Best Documentary in the World Docs Competition at Sundance 2005 as well as at the International Documentary Film festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in 2004.

Production

1986

Burp!

as Editor

2011

Position Among the Stars

as Camera Operator

2001

The Eye of the Day

as Camera Operator

2001

2005

2005

Shape of the Moon

as Camera Operator

2009

Beautiful Crazy

as Cinematography

2013

Raw Herring

as Director

2013

Raw Herring

as Director of Photography

1991

Moving Objects

as Director

1990

2007

2017

The Long Season

as Director

2017

Tarling is Darling

as Executive Producer

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