Leonard Retel Helmrich, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Leonard Retel Helmrich

Dutch film director

Date of Birth: 16-Aug-1959

Place of Birth: Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands

Profession: screenwriter, actor, film director, film producer, film editor

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Leonard Retel Helmrich is a Dutch cinematographer and film director.
He was born the 16th of August 1959 in Tilburg, Netherlands and has lived in Amsterdam since 1982.
He received highest honours for international documentaries at the Sundance Festival and was the first two-time International Documentary winner at the International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA).
In June 5, 2018 he was rewarded by the Dutch King Willem-Alexander with the title Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion, a very high distinction. Helmrich is famous for perfecting the 'Single Shot Cinema' filming method 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.