The Sydney Film Festival is screening a new preservation print of Rolf de Heer’s Dingo (1991), starring Colin Friels (left) and Miles Davis. Rolf De Heer will present the film at the Art Gallery of NSW on Saturday 18 June at 2 pm (see the Sydney Film Festival website). The print is a product of the Deluxe/Kodak preservation project with the NFSA which has run over the past 10 years.

Dingo (1991) was the only starring film role for jazz legend Miles Davis. In a 1991 interview, de Heer said, 'I realised casting Miles would either make or break the film, both financially and artistically … He turned out to be a wonderfully instinctive actor.’

Our home page celebrates the diverse films of Rolf de Heer. Dingo (1991) was his third feature, and the first of six to be nominated for Best Picture at the AFI Awards. De Heer is one of only a few filmmakers to have twice won the Best Director AFI award (for Bad Boy Bubby in 1994 and Ten Canoes in 2006). He is currently working on his latest film, The King is Dead, in Adelaide.

Read more about the Deluxe/Kodak film preservation project.