Juerg Neuenschwander

Juerg Neuenschwander (born 1953) is a Swiss independent documentary film director, film producer, politician 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. He developed and directed a community TV project in Bern's Tscharnergut neighbourhood.

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 Bern

Select filmography

Feature-length documentaries Daughters of a Rebel (in preparation) Simply different/ Gleich und anders (2011-2016) The Chinese Recipe: bold and smart (2012-2016) Sooner or later (früher oder später, 2000-2003) Seitenblick (Side Glance, experimental, in development) Boggsing (Boggsen, 2011) Bao, the Upright Judge (Der rechtschaffene Richter BAO, 2011) The Swiss Parliament Building (Kuppel über Bern, 2006–09) The World in-between (Zwischenwelt, 2007) Amadou’s Friends (Les Amis d’Amadou, 2005) Sooner or later (früher oder später) was nominated for the Documentary Award Pare Lorentz 2003, Los Angeles