Peter Entell

Peter Entell is an American-born documentary filmmaker, living in Switzerland. He has both American and Swiss nationality. He has filmed in Europe, Africa, and Asia on film projects with social, political, and environmental subjects.

Biography

Entell was born in New York in 1952 and moved to Switzerland in 1975, where he began to work for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as a sound recordist. about fellow Americans, Broadway, television and Hollywood actress Lois Snow and her husband Edgar Snow, author of the best-selling book Red Star Over China, first American correspondent to interview Mao Tse-tung, and first American to film Mao. He was nominated for the Swiss Film Prize for the Best Documentary for Rolling include:

Sound engineer Men's Lives – 1976

Direction

Moving on: The Hunger for Land in Zimbabwe (Toujours plus loin: la terre convoitée du Zimbabwe) – 1983 Depending on Heaven (Les caprices du ciel) – 1987 The Testimony of Four South African Workers (Le témoignage de quatre travailleurs sud-africains) – 1988 Le manteau de pluie – 1990 Waiting for the Caribou (En attendant le caribou) – 1991 L'homme et le chimpanzé – 1991 La maison du grand âge – 1992 Martha – 1994 Rolling – 1997 The Tube (Le tube) – 2001, re-edited in 2009 Josh's Trees (Les arbres de Josh) – 2005 Shake the Devil Off – 2007 A Home Far Away (Ailleurs, ma maison) – 2012 Like Dew in the Sun (Comme la rosée au soleil) – 2016 Sisters (Les sœurs) – 2018 Getting Old Stinks – 2022