Alice Schmid

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Alice Schmid (* 1951 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss screenwriter , director , filmmaker and writer .

life and work

Alice Schmid grew up in the Lucerne suburb of Reussbühl. She studied Spanish and Italian, and in 1976 began training as a screenwriter and director. In 1996 she finally founded her own film production company Ciné A. S. in Zurich. Schmid focuses on the topics of children, young people and violence.

For many years Alice Schmid made television films about and with children in various countries. So with child soldiers in African civil war countries or with children in Cambodia who fell victim to mines. The most recent two films were shot in Switzerland: The children from Napf and The girl from Änziloch. Laura Larissa Röösli, the main character in the second film, was part of the first film as a little girl. The children from Napf recorded the high number of over 70,000 cinema admissions for Switzerland.

Alice Schmid has lived in Romoos , the central location of the film, since the shooting of Die Kinder vom Napf .

Movies

  • The girl from Änziloch , Switzerland 2016
  • The children from the bowl. Documentary, 91 min, Switzerland 2011.
  • Letter to adults. (Lettres aux Adultes, Letters to Grown-Ups). Docudrama, 52min / 26 min, Switzerland 1994.
  • I killed people. (J'ai tué, I killed). Documentary, 26 min, Liberia 1999.
  • Shall I Stay or Shall I Go? (Should I stay or go?) Documentary, 26 min, Sierra Leone .
  • Say no - Dis non - Grida il tuo no. Short film, 28 min, Switzerland.
  • Once in a lifetime to the cinema. (Les Tapis de la Honte, Let's go to the Movie). Docudrama, 26 min, India.
  • Affairs - Les Affaires de Cœur. Film on sex education and AIDS prevention, 29 min, Switzerland.

Books

  • I killed people. When children go to war. Lamuv, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 978-3-88977-599-3 .
  • Culture is as old as the bean. Verlag Druckerei Schüpfheim, Schüpfheim 2009.
  • Thirteen is my number. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-312-00472-0 .

Prices

Letter to adults :

I killed people :

Thirteen is my number. :

  • 2010: Main prize of the Central Switzerland Literature Funding

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefania Summermatter, swissinfo.ch: Documentaries - the trump card of Swiss cinema . In: SWI swissinfo.ch . ( swissinfo.ch [accessed February 12, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Geri Krebs: Alice Schmid and "The girl from Änziloch": The virgin at the foot of the rock face . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 3, 2017, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed February 8, 2017]).
  3. ^ Radio SRF, Regional Journal Zentralschweiz, January 20, 2017
  4. ^ Information from the film distributor , accessed on January 7, 2012.
  5. ↑ Data sheet for the film at www.berlinale.de, accessed on February 14, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Alice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss screenwriter, director, filmmaker and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne