Mario Cortesi

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Mario Cortesi (born November 22, 1940 in Biel ; legal resident in Diessenhofen ) is a Swiss journalist , publisher , non-fiction author and film director.

Mario Cortesi is the managing director of the Cortesi office in Biel, which was founded on September 20, 1965 as the first independent media office in Switzerland and today has 35 employees. The Cortesi office publishes the weekly free newspaper Biel Bienne (circulation 109,000 copies). It is also co-founder and co-owner of the bilingual regional broadcaster TeleBielingue and partner in the bilingual Radio Canal 3 in Biel.

For eight years (until 2008), Mario Cortesi wrote a weekly film review as a guest author in the largest Swiss newspaper, Blick . From 2004 to 2010 he produced a monthly animal broadcast (“Hund, Katz etc”) for all local television in western Switzerland. Every week he presents the latest films on TeleBielingue as a presenter.

His film “Yesterday When I Was Young” was awarded the Prix Jeunesse International. His television series “Peppino” about a son of Italian guest workers became best known. The documentary “The Scent of the Big Wide World”, which addresses the dangers of tobacco consumption, received various international film awards, including the World Health Organization (WHO) and ICRC awards . Cortesi's commissioned and image films received a total of more than 70 international awards.

Mario Cortesi is on the nomination jury of the Prix ​​Walo and was on the jury of the Swiss Press Award until 2015 , most recently as president of the TV jury.

Documentaries, reports

  • 1963 The Rumor (amateur film, prize for the most original film in Switzerland)
  • 1964 Move with the times! (Federal Council award for the best amateur film)
  • 1964 family of mountain farmers (film for the Swiss National Exhibition in Lausanne)
  • 1968 Jo Siffert (documentary film)
  • 1969 All you need is Love (a film that critically and politically observes the 1968 movement )
  • 1969 The racing drivers (film about Formula 1 )
  • 1970 These daring acrobats (film about motorcycling )
  • 1970 Ferdy National (film about the Radidol Ferdy Kübler )
  • 1970 Giacomo Agostini (portrait of the greatest motorcycle racer of all time)
  • 1971 duel in the ice rink (about bobsleigh )
  • 1971 Clay Regazzoni (first screening film)
  • 1972 Jo Siffert (second documentary about Siffert)
  • 1972 20 days in China (book and film)
  • 1972 corpses pave his fame (documentary about spaghetti westerns )
  • 1973 He dies 1000 deaths (documentary about the French stuntman Rémy Julienne )
  • 1973 Can the militia parliament still be saved?
  • 1974 Claudia or Where is Timbuktu? (As a producer. Film about girls with Down syndrome . Based on a story by Max Bolliger )
  • 1976 Yesterday When I Was Young (documentary about the joys and dangers of motorcycling)
  • 1976 A summer at the age of 13 (TV film about an adolescent hemophilia . Based on a story by Max Bolliger)
  • 1977 How wild was the wild west? (Documentary about TV series western productions at Old Tucson Studios )
  • 1977 encounter in Switzerland (the violinists Yehudi Menuhin and Helmut Zacharias come together and play together for the only time)
  • 1979 Jura - creation of a canton
  • 1980 roller coaster (1980, youth film based on a book by Eveline Hasler )
  • 1980 The scent of the big wide world (documentary about smoking )
  • 1981 An American Dream (Portrait of the figure skater Denise Biellmann )
  • 1983 Peppino (TV series for children and families. About immigration and integration of a Sicilian boy in Switzerland)
  • 1985 Report on Kommando Leopard (During the shooting of the feature film in the Philippines. Various interviews)
  • 1988 Escape with Lucifer (children's and family series. Children save the magnificent black racehorse Lucifer)
  • 1989 The World is Yours (report on global drug trafficking ; 1989 delegated Swiss contribution to the Oscar )

Commissioned and advertising films

  • 1985 La Rose des Temps (film about the most complex table clock in the world)
  • 1986 Just smile (the flight attendant of Swissair )
  • 1987 Significant Moments (via the watch brand Omega )
  • 1990 The Seven Wonders of the World (via the Blancpain watch brand )
  • 1992 Somewhere On Planet Earth (via the watch brand Rado )
  • 1994 Spirit of Biel
  • 1996 March 7, 2010 (series for tourism promotion in the canton of Bern )
  • 1996 The four seasons (for the Ferag company)
  • 2002 Mein Lilienberg (via the entrepreneur forum Lilienberg)
  • 2002 The Canton of Bern (for Expo 2002)
  • 2006 Schweiz-Suisse-Svizzera (for the Ferag company)
  • 2008 cement and concrete (film for Vigier)
  • 2012 Lively entrepreneurship (via Ferag founder Walter Reist)
  • 2013 The BEKB (short film for the shareholders' general meeting)

Books

  • Circus (with photos by Roland Bart). Swiss publishing house, Zurich 1970
  • Notes from China. A Swiss reader about the People's Republic of China since the Cultural Revolution (with Frank A. Meyer ). Gloor, Zurich 1972
  • How wild was the wild west? Swiss Youth, Solothurn 1977, ISBN 3-7260-0150-6
  • Roller coaster or something a youth film was made . Maier, Ravensburg 1980, ISBN 3-473-38620-0
  • Hollywood, Hollywood. The history of American film and its stars . Avanti, Neuchâtel 1983
  • James Bond, Belmondo & Co. The Book of European Films . Avanti, Neuchâtel 1983
  • People and media. The history of mass communication (with Werner Hadorn). 2 volumes. AT, Aarau 1985/86, ISBN 3-85502-206-2 and ISBN 3-85502-207-0
  • Adventurous escape with Lucifer. A look behind the scenes of the television series (with Marco Cortesi). Aare, Solothurn 1989, ISBN 3-7260-0326-6
  • Biel-Bienne, a city on the lake . Gassmann, Biel 1989, ISBN 3-906140-07-5
  • Charles Jourdan (with Elvira Hiltebrand). Paris 1991
  • Ueli. 40 years of Gotthelf films Ueli der Knecht and Ueli der Pächter, 70 years of Hannes Schmidhauser , 100 years of fascination with the cinema (with Walter Senn). Benteli, Bern 1995, ISBN 3-7165-1014-9
  • An angel to Virginia . Roman (with Elvira Hiltebrand). Scalo, Zurich 1997; Wunderlich paperback, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 3-499-26208-8
  • Bieler Lexikon, 1999, as editor
  • Biel / Bienne. Bilingual. At sea. 2012, ISBN 978-3-906140-99-5 , Verlag Büro Cortesi

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME Cortesi, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Biel / Bienne , Switzerland