Leonard Retel Helmrich was born in the Netherlands in 1959. He graduated from the
Netherlands Film and Television Academy in 1986 with his fiction film The Drowning Man.
Since his film Eye of the Day, which he shot in Indonesia between 1998 and 2001, Retel Helmrich’s films have screened and won acclaim at film festivals worldwide garnering major documentary film awards. These include the SUNDANCE inaugural Grand World Documentary Award 2005, the Special Jury Award for World Documentary 2011, the prestigious Grand Joris Ivens Award IDFA Amsterdam 2004 and 2010.
Eye Of The Day – 2001
Flight From Heaven – 2003
Shape Of The Moon – 2004
Position Among The Stars – 2010
Raw Herring – 2013
