| Producer experience with documentaries: | |
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The Cuba Connection: a 51-minute documentary for HTV (UK). The film
tells the story of six idealists building an ‘environmentally
friendly’ cargo sailing boat with recycled scrap metal. Their aim is to
establish trade relations with Cuba and protest against the American trade
embargo. Filming started early 95 in the UK and ended in December 96 in
Havana. I filmed, co-directed and edited this story with a colleague. (1997) |
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Larisa’s
War: a 13-minute ICRC documentary about a Bosnian refugee in
search of her family. I shot this report on my own in Bosnia and London.
Broadcast at the International Women's Day meeting in Beijing and on numerous
news magazine programmes world-wide. (1993) |
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Rebels of the Forgotten World:
a 52-minute documentary, shot mostly on my own, for CHANNEL 4 about Papuan
OPM Guerrillas desperately fighting for their independence. This film
follows the journey from my initial meeting with the OPM on a clandestine
airstrip and how I succeeded in evading the pursuing Indonesian army for
more than 6 months. Sold internationally. (1991) |
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Eldorado Perdido: a 52-minute
documentary for Swiss TV SRG about a Brazilian garimpero trying to find
gold in the territory of the Yanomami Indians. I filmed and directed this
story with 2 Swiss colleagues. (1989) |
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Suisse - La Forteresse
: a 52-minute documentary for ANTENNE 2 (France)
about the Swiss army and its system of civil protection. I shot and
co-directed this film with a colleague from Paris. (1988) |
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Tomorrow the Mollahs: a
26-minute report for the Dutch TV station EO about the rising Islamic
Fundamentalism in Senegal. My first report shot and edited on Beta-SP. (1987) |