Dick Rijneke

Biography

Dick Rijneke followed his film studies at the Vrije Academie in The Hague, and made his first films with Frans Zwartjes. These were short films that, in terms of form and content, show strong similarities with other films that were made and screened at the Vrije Academie.

In the 1970s, Rijneke made several documentaries about youth culture in Rotterdam. He worked with other filmmakers including Mildred van Leeuwarden and Hans de Ridder. Together they made the movie Pinkel. In 1979, Rijneke and Van Leeuwarden co-founded the production company Rotterdam Films, with which they produced and directed two feature films in the 1980s: Plan-Delta and Vora-Nova. In 1990, they co-produced, together with Jan Heijs, the international episodic film City Life, which was the opening film at the Film International festival in Rotterdam.

Dick Rijneke is still active as a producer for Rotterdam Films. In 2005, for example, he produced the documentary Nou, dat was het dan!, a two-part interview with Paul Verhoeven and Wim Verstappen that was partly shot in 1980.