Leonard Retel Helmrich

Leonard Retel Helmrich has made numerous award winning documentaries. He was born in 1959 in Tilburg, the Netherlands. In 1986 he finished his studies at the Dutch Film- and Television Academy and made his debut with the feature film “The Phoenix Mystery” in 1990. His documentary “Moving Objects” (1991) has won several prizes at International film festivals.
He gave workshops to lecture his ‘single-shot’ theory all over the world on several Art Academies like Kansas and Jakarta. From 1994 he lives by turns in Amsterdam and Jakarta. Next to attending workshops as a tutor he has shot several documentaries before, during and after Suharto stepped down as a president.
With his film “De Stand van de Zon / The Eye of the Day” in one blow he instantly became famous in The Netherlands.