Nationality Swiss Name Juerg Neuenschwander | Years active 1978–present | |
Born 1953 Signau, Emmental district, canton of Bern, Switzerland Education Primary school in Signau; Diploma in education from the University of Bern, Switzerland; studied psychology at University of Bern, Switzerland Occupation Film director, screenwriter, producer Notable work My Mother is in Sri Lanka (1986, co-directed with Remo Legnazzi)
Shigatse – eine Spritze kommt selten allein (An injection never comes alone, 1989-1990)
Krauter und Krafte (The Power of Healing, 1995)
fruher oder spater (sooner or later, 2000-2003)
Q – Begegnungen auf der Milchstrasse / Encounters on the Milky Way (2000) | ||
The Chinese Recipe: bold and smart A film by Juerg Neuenschwander
Juerg Neuenschwander (born 1953) is a Swiss independent documentary film director, film producer and founding member of Container TV AG for film and television in Bern, Switzerland. He is a media consultant and lecturer in film and audiovisual design; director of short and feature-length documentary films, of artistic projects and interactive Multimedia productions.
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Career
Documentary films
Juerg Neuenschwander has made a name for himself with cinematic documentaries such as früher oder später (sooner or later), Kräuter und Kräfte (The Power of Healing), and Q – Begegnungen auf der Milchstrasse (Encounters on the Milky Way). He developed and directed a community TV project in Bern's Tscharnergut neighbourhood. He worked on location in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, China (Tibet), Mali, Nepal, Switzerland and the US.
Lectureships, professorships
Juerg Neuenschwander is an expert and consultant in visual communication, he teaches film studies at Bern University of the Art, a Department of Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland, (1999 – 2016), and at the College of Design & Innovation D&I, Tongji University, Shanghai, China (visiting professor, 2009 – 2015).
1999 – 2008 Founder and director of the Media Lab at Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland.
2016 Juerg Neuenschwander has got a call under the Recruitment Program of Global Experts” (上海千人计划) for three years as an Overseas High-Level Talent National Chair Professor at the College of Arts & Media 艺术于传媒学院 at Tongji University, Shanghai.
Memberships
1987 - 1995, member of the Film Commission of the Canton of Berne
2005 - 2008, member of Expert Committee for Non-fiction of Zürich Film Foundation (Zürcher Filmstiftung).
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Feature-length documentaries
Television productions, short documentaries
Awards