Rudolf Buitendach

Rudolf Buitendach (or Rudolf B.) is a South African born film director and editor.

Works

His short Indoor Fireworks produced by Sleevemonkey Films was the world's first fully uncompressed film shot on the legendary Viper filmstream camera and lauded by the likes of director Darren Aronofsky and composer Angelo Badalamenti (who scored the film) It was picked up by Canal Plus for European distribution.

His short Rearview was nominated by BBC Three as best short of 2006 in their new talent strand and also screened at the LA International shortsfest and Brief Encounters. It was shortlisted by the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival for a Golden Melies nomination and also screened in Cannes and Venice. In 2007 Rudolf was a finalist in the filmaka.com international filmmaking competition.

Rudolf also works as a film trailer editor and creative director. One of his trailers The Brotherhood of the Wolf was nominated for a Golden Trailer Award in 2002. In 2007 Rudolf was nominated for two Golden Trailer Awards for best International drama trailer for 'Snowcake' and for best Comedy Trailer for Waiter. In 2008 Rudolf worked on the Control trailer that was nominated for a Key Art award. Rudolf has worked in tandem with the likes of Werner Herzog, Mike Leigh, Mike Hodges, Peter Greenaway, Alexi Tan, Richard Linklater, and Pedro Almodóvar on their trailers and has cut trailers for all the major studios and distributors.

In 2009 Rudolf directed a documentary of Arsenal's 2008–2009 season.

In 2011 Rudolf directed his debut feature film Dark Hearts starring Lucas Till, Kyle Schmid, Sonja Kinski, Juliet Landau, Rachel Blanchard and Goran Visnjic. "Dark Hearts" was nominated as Best International Feature at the 2012 Raindance Film Festival in London.

In 2012 Rudolf directed Where The Road Runs Out starring Isaach De Bankole, Juliet Landau and Stelio Savante, the first feature film in history to shoot in Equatorial Guinea. The film won Grand Jury Award at the San Diego International Film Festival as well as Best Film Judged by the San Diego Tribune. Where The Road Runs Out also won Best Director and Best Actor at the Academy accredited Sunscreen Film Festival in Florida. In 2016 the film won the Jury award at the Helsinki African Film Festival.