Leonard Retel Helmrich Net Worth is
$19 Million
Leonard Retel Helmrich Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Leonard Retel Helmrich is a Dutch cinematographer and film director of Indo descent. He was born the 16th of August 1959 in Tilburg, Netherlands and has lived in Amsterdam since 1982. Received highest honours for international documentaries at the Sundance Festival and was the first two-time International Documentary winner at the Amsterdam Film Festival.Helmrich is famous for perfecting the 'Single Camera Shot' filming style and his related technical camera innovations. "...you can move inside an event and go with your camera to the right spot, at the right moment,... That’s what the whole single-shot cinema is about: trying to think of the world as a kind of clockwork, a machinery, with everything interrelated. The bigger and smaller things are just as important. In a clockworks you can’t pull out a little gear because the whole thing jams. The solution is to become one of the clockworks.", Leonard Retel Helmrich.
| Date Of Birth | 1959-08-16 |
| Place Of Birth | Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands |
| Profession | Cinematographer, Director, Writer |
Cinematographer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| Tagore's Natir Puja: The Court Dancer | | Documentary post-production | |
| Raw Herring | 2013 | Documentary | |
| Position Among the Stars | 2010 | Documentary | |
| In My Father's Country | 2008 | Documentary | |
| The Burning Season | 2008 | Documentary | |
| Beautiful Crazy | 2008 | | |
| Contractpensions - Djangan loepah! | 2008 | | |
| Shape of the Moon | 2004 | Documentary | |
| The Eye of the Day | 2001 | Documentary | |
Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| Raw Herring | 2013 | Documentary | |
| Position Among the Stars | 2010 | Documentary | |
| Shape of the Moon | 2004 | Documentary | |
| The Eye of the Day | 2001 | Documentary | |
| Moving Objects | 1991 | Documentary | |
| Het Phoenix mysterie | 1990 | | |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| Shape of the Moon | 2004 | Documentary | |
| The Eye of the Day | 2001 | Documentary | |
| Moving Objects | 1991 | Documentary | |
| Het Phoenix mysterie | 1990 | | |
Camera Department
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| Wide Angle | 2008 | TV Series documentary camera operator - 1 episode | |
| Moving Objects | 1991 | Documentary first unit camera operator | |
Editor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| Moving Objects | 1991 | Documentary | |
| Burp! | 1986 | Short | |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| Broken Silence | 1995 | Documentary producer | |
| T' Aves Bachtalo | 1994 | Documentary producer | |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| Lost in Amsterdam | 1989 | | |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| Parradox | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|
| 2011 | Humanitas Award | International Documentary Association | | Stand van de Sterren (2010) |
| 2011 | Special Jury Prize | Sarasota Film Festival | Documentary Feature | Stand van de Sterren (2010) |
| 2011 | Special Jury Prize | Sundance Film Festival | World Cinema - Documentary | Stand van de Sterren (2010) |
| 2010 | Best Feature-Length Documentary | Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival | VPRO IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary | Stand van de Sterren (2010) |
| 2010 | Best Dutch Documentary | Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival | | Stand van de Sterren (2010) |
| 2005 | Jury Award | Full Frame Documentary Film Festival | | Stand van de maan (2004) |
| 2005 | Humanitarian Award (Documentary) - Special Mention | Hong Kong International Film Festival | | Stand van de maan (2004) |
| 2005 | Grand Jury Prize | Sundance Film Festival | World Cinema - Documentary | Stand van de maan (2004) |
| 2004 | Joris Ivens Award | Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival | | Stand van de maan (2004) |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|
| 2013 | Jury Award | Tribeca Film Festival | Best Documentary Feature | Hollandse Nieuwe (2013) |
| 2012 | Cinema Eye Honors Award | Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US | Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking | Stand van de Sterren (2010) |
| 2012 | Cinema Eye Honors Award | Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US | Outstanding Achievement in Direction | Stand van de Sterren (2010) |
| 2012 | Cinema Eye Honors Award | Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US | Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography | Stand van de Sterren (2010) |
| 2012 | WGA Award (Screen) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Best Documentary Screenplay | Stand van de Sterren (2010) |
| 2011 | Golden Frog | Camerimage | Feature Documentary Films Competition | Stand van de Sterren (2010) |
| 2011 | European Film Award | European Film Awards | European Documentary | Stand van de Sterren (2010) |
| 2011 | Humanitarian Award (Documentary) | Hong Kong International Film Festival | Best Documentary | Stand van de Sterren (2010) |
| 2011 | Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Award | Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival | | Stand van de Sterren (2010) |
| 2011 | Jury Prize | Sarasota Film Festival | Best Documentary Feature | Stand van de Sterren (2010) |
| 2011 | Grand Jury Prize | Sundance Film Festival | World Cinema - Documentary | Stand van de Sterren (2010) |
| 2011 | Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize | Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival | | Stand van de Sterren (2010) |
| 2005 | Golden Calf | Nederlands Film Festival | Best Cinematography (Beste Camera) | Stand van de maan (2004) |
| 2005 | Golden Calf | Nederlands Film Festival | Best Documentary - Long (Beste Lange Documentaire) | Stand van de maan (2004) |
