Indonesia: Andre Roosevelt (1879-1962), film maker and adventurer.

Andre Roosevelt (c.1879—1962) was a US filmmaker. He was born in Paris, France to Cornelius Roosevelt (1847-1902), a cousin of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, who married a French actress.

Roosevelt was an adventurer, traveling to Bali in 1924. He envisioned making Bali a national or international park with laws to regulate it as such. In 1928 and 1929, he and Armand Denis shot Goona-Goona, An Authentic Melodrama (also called The Kris) with assistance from Walter Spies. It was released in the U.S. in 1930 and started an American craze for Bali. He was also well known for his 1938 film Beyond the Caribbean. He died in July 1962 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Bali is home to most of Indonesia's small Hindu minority with some 92% of the island’s 4 million population adhering to Balinese Hinduism, while most of the remainder follow Islam.

Bali is the largest tourist destination in Indonesia, and is renowned for its highly developed arts, including traditional and modern dance, sculpture, painting, leatherwork, metalwork and music.

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