Rudolf Buitendach
- Editor
- Director
- Producer
Rudolf is a British/South African director with an award winning body of
work that include screenings in Cannes, Venice and Los Angeles.
'Indoor Fireworks' was the world's first fully digital film shot on the
groundbreaking 2K Viper film-stream camera, later used by David Fincher.
After being nominated by the BBC as best new director, Rudolf directed his theatrical debut 'Dark Hearts' in 2011
starring X-Men's Lucas Till and Goran Visjnic (ER, Girl With The Dragon
Tattoo), the film debuted on Showtime.
In 2012 Rudolf directed his second theatrical feature 'Where The Road Runs Out'
starring Cesar winner Isaach De Bankole and Saturn nominee Juliet Landau, the first
feature film ever to shoot in Equatorial Guinea. It won Grand Jury prize at the San Diego
international Film Festival, a Black Reel award and debuted on Netflix. In 2013 Rudolf directed 'Apartment 407' aka 'Selling Isobel', a dark thriller based
on a true story about sex trafficking, starring Frida Farrel (Contract
Killers), Matthew Marsden (Rambo), Alison Stoner (Step Up 3D) and Lew
Temple (Walking Dead). It won the Best Independent Film award at the 2016 Raindance Film Festival and Best International film at the European Independent Film Festival.
In 2017 Rudolf directed 'Hex', a supernatural Canadian thriller, filmed in Cambodia, released theatrically in the US and on Amazon Prime.