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Juerg Neuenschwander
Born	April 3, 1953 Signau, Emmental district, canton of Bern, Switzerland
Nationality	Swiss
Education	Primary school in Signau; Diploma in education from the University of Bern, Switzerland; studied psychology at University of Bern, Switzerland
Alma mater	University of Bern, Switzerland
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter, producer
Years active	1979–present
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) Kräuter und Kräfte (The Power of Healing, 1995) früher oder später (sooner or later, 2000-2003) Q – Begegnungen auf der Milchstrasse / Encounters on the Milky Way (2000)
Website	http://www.container-tv.com

Juerg Neuenschwander (* born 3 April 1953) is a Swiss documentary film director, film producer and owner of Container TV AG for film and television in Bern, Switzerland. He is a media consultant and lecturer in audiovisual design; director of short and feature-length documentary films, of artistic projects and interactive multimedia productions. He attended courses in New York City, NY, US, and has lived in London, UK, Algiers, Algeria, Curup, Sumatra/Indonesia and Washington D.C., US. Currently he lives and works in Shanghai, China, and Bern, Switzerland.

Career

Documentary films

Juerg Neuenschwander has made a name for himself with 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 launched his filmmaking career in the early 1970s, producing videos and films. From 1979 to 1981, he developed and directed a community TV project in Bern's Tscharnergut neighbourhood.

Since 1984 he has produced many independant short and feature-length documentaries for cinema and TV as well as commissioned films on location in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, China (Tibet), Mali, Nepal, Switzerland and the US.

Other work

Juerg Neuenschwander is owner and CEO of Container TV AG for film and television in Bern, Switzerland, formerly the Container TV Co-operative, of which he was a founding member in 1978.

An expert and consultant in visual communication, he teaches film studies at the Department of Visual Communication of Bern University of the Arts, Bern, Switzerland, and at the College of Design & Innovation D&I, Tongji University Shanghai, Shanghai, China (visiting professor, since 2009).

1999 – 2008 Founder and director of the Media Lab at Bern University of the Arts, Bern, Switzerland.

Memberships

Swiss Filmmakers Association (Verband Filmregie und Drehbuch Schweiz).

2005 - 2008, member of Expert Committee for Non-fiction of Zürich Film Foundation (Zürcher Filmstiftung).

1987 - 1995, member of Photo and Film Commission, Canton Bern (Foto- und Filmkommission des Kantons Bern).

From 1985, lecturer at MAZ – Swiss School of Journalism (MAZ – Schweizer Journalistenschule), at the Academy of Fine Arts München (Akademie der Bildenden Künste München), München, Germany, and other institutions.

Select filmography

Feature-length documentaries

• Eat & Digest – From Shanzhai To Creation (2015)
• sooner or later (früher oder später, 2000-2003)
• Encounters on the Milky Way (Q – Begegnungen auf der Milchstrasse, 1998-2000)
• Kräuter und Kräfte (The Power of Healing, 1994-1995)
• Shigatse – eine Spritze kommt selten allein (An injection never comes alone, 1989-1990)
• My Mother is in Sri Lanka (1986, co-directed with Remo Legnazzi)

Television productions, short documentaries

• Rasheda's Destiny (Rashedas Schicksal, in development)
• Fear has a Thousand Eyes (Die Angst hat 1000 Augen, 2011, producer)
• Boggsing (Boggsen, 2011)
• Bao, the Upright Judge (Der rechtschaffene Richter BAO, 2011)
• The Swiss Parliament Building (Kuppel über Bern, 2006-09)
• Living with Orangutans (Unter Orang-Utans, 2008)
• Wound Ballistic (2008)
• The World in-between (Zwischenwelt, 2007)
• The Rasheda Trust (2006)
• Amadou’s Friends (Les Amis d’Amadou, 2004)
• Imprisonment (Freiheitsentzug, 1996-1997)
• Hey you! (1998)
• The Promise (Das Versprechen, 1996)
• The Magic of Simulation (Simulationszauber, 1995-96)
• Rasheda – no time for a chat (Rasheda – keine Zeit für einen Schwatz, 1993-1994)
• Confrontation HIV/Aids (Konfrontation HIV/Aids), six episodes (1991-1993)
• Seeing means living (Sehen ist alles, 1991)
• Fri-Art NY- Made in Switzerland (1984), with Peter Guyer
• On the mountain (Auf dem Berg, 1993)
• So Berne – Youth on the Street (So Bern – Jugend auf der Strasse, 1980), with Alex Sutter et al.
• Video5 (1978)
• Space to live – Occupation of Houses (Raum zum Leben – Häuserbesetzung, 1975, a fragment)

Art projects

Select installations and art projects

• ZONES, interactive 4-channel video installation; architectural art, Bern (1999-2002)
• Shine (Schein), interactive video installation; Bienzgut Bern (1998)
• The Presidents, Fri-Art N.Y., video installation, with Peter Guyer (1984)
• ColorTV, Fri-Art Fribourg centre for contemporary art; installation (1982)
• Passages (Passagen), multimedia installation, Helmhaus Zürich (1980)

Awards

• Imprisonment (Freiheitsentzug): Cristallo di Locarno for Documentary Film (1998)
• Encounters on the Milky Way (Q – Begegnungen auf der Milchstrasse), Berner Filmpreis for Documentary Film (2002)
• sooner or later (früher oder später) was nominated for the Documentary Award Pare Lorentz 2003, Los Angeles

Lectureships, professorships

• Bern University of the arts
• Tongji Universität Shanghai
• Academy of Fine Arts, Munich

References

• Eat and digest
• Swissfilms: eat and digest
• Boggsing
• Sooner or later
• The rasheda trust
• Encounters on the Milky Way
• Strategic partnership with Tongji University
• Scent Culture Institute

External links

• Feberles on IMDb
• Container TV, AG für Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Bern
• HKB Juerg Neuenschwander
• Swissfilms: Juerg Neuenschwander
• Bernfilm: Juerg Neuenschwander
• artfilm: Juerg Neuenschwander

Category:Documentary Filmmaker Category:Swiss Category:Born 1953 Category:Male