Leonard Retel Helmrich
DirectingBorn August 16, 1959 · Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, NetherlandsDied July 15, 2023
Leonard Retel Helmrich was 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.
