Heidi Specogna
Heidi Specogna (born January 5, 1959 in Biel ) is a Swiss filmmaker . She lives in Berlin.
life and work
She attended the journalism school in Zurich and then worked as a journalist for various German-Swiss press media. From 1982 to 1988 she studied at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin . Since 2003 she has been a lecturer at the Ludwigsburg Film Academy for documentary film.
Latin America and Africa are the focus of her filmmaking. In her 1991 documentary Tania la Guerillera she portrayed the Bolivian guerrilla fighter Tamara Bunke and in 1996 the Tupamaros , a guerrilla movement from Uruguay, in the documentary of the same name . In the documentary The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierrez she follows in the footsteps of José Antonio Gutierrez in Guatemala and Mexico. Pepe Mujica - The President is a portrait of the former Uruguayan President (2010–2015), guerrilla and flower grower José Mujica .
The documentary Carte Blanche , released in 2011, focuses on the Central African Republic . It is about investigators who collect evidence on behalf of the International Criminal Court in the case of Jean-Pierre Bemba and interview witnesses about the war crimes of 2002 and 2003. Cahier africain documents victims of these war crimes over several years and follows them in the chaos of war that broke out between Muslims and Christians in this country in 2013.
The Solothurn Film Festival dedicated the special program “Rencontre” to Heidi Specogna in 2020.
Awards
- 2007: Swiss Film Award in the Best Documentary Film category for The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierrez
- 2008: Adolf Grimme Prize for The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierrez
- 2011: 3sat documentary film award for Carte Blanche
- 2012: German Human Rights Film Award for Esther and the Ghosts
- 2013: Catholic Media Prize for Carte Blanche
- 2016: German human rights film award for Cahier africain
- 2017: Swiss Film Prize and German Film Prize LOLA for Cahier africain (Best Documentary)
- 2019: Konrad Wolf Prize
Filmography
- 1982 Tasta Tour (short film) / Sensitive (short film)
- 1983 Confession (short film)
- 1984 Traces (documentary)
- 1985 The Indian Child (short film)
- 1987 The Disappearance of the Threshold (documentary)
- 1988 Djibouti (short film)
- 1991 Tania la Guerillera (documentary)
- 1993 Code name Rosa (documentary about Margrit Bolli )
- 1995 Z'Man's Kind (feature film)
- 1997 Tupamaros (documentary)
- 2002 Kaprun (documentary film)
- 2004 Time of the Red Carnations (Documentary)
- 2006 The short life of José Antonio Gutierrez (documentary)
- 2010 The goal hunter's ship (documentary)
- 2011 Carte Blanche (documentary)
- 2011 Esther and the Ghosts (short documentary)
- 2015 Pepe Mujica - The President (documentary)
- 2016 Cahier Africain (documentary)
In post-production: wax and gold (documentary)
In preparation:
- Claudia Andujar. An encounter with Miss Yanomami (documentary)
- Lost Brothers (documentary with co-author Kristine Kretschmer)
Web links
- Heidi Specogna in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Heidi Specogna at filmportal.de
- Heidi Specogna at swissfilms.ch
- Homepage Heidi Specogna
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heidi Specogna is the guest of honor of the “Rencontre” at the Solothurner Filmtage 2020 , Solothurner Zeitung, October 24, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Specogna, Heidi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th January 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Biel |