“Destiny“, will be shown on SRF1 the 23th of April, at 00.10. You can check the program HERE.

If you want a subtitled version, you can send me a message and I will send you back a private link.

Enjoy!

Hanna (24) is struggling with the problems her three children have at school, with her husband Silvan’s (26) game addiction and the lack of space in their tiny apartment. As the authorities threaten to take their oldest son away, Hanna needs to find a way to get Silvan out of his fictional game world.

Festivals

• 51. Solothurner Filmtage 2016, Programme: Upcoming Talents
• Festival du film étudiant Québec, 2016
• Ascona Film Festival, 2017
• 8th Chalon Tout Court Film Festival, 2017
• Gässli Film Festival 2017, Basel
  * Best Swiss Short Film, Gässli Film Festival 2017
  * Best Director, Gässli Film Festival 2017

TV Broadcasts

• 2015.04.23 at 00.10 on SRF1 | Kurt Früh Reloaded
• 2016.10.05 at 21.40 on SRF2

Technical informations

Genre: Drama
Year of production: 2015
Color
Length: 14 min 43 (without credits)
Shooting format: ARRI Alexa
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Sound: Dolby 5.1 / Stereo
Screening Format: DCP / HDCam SR / HDCam / Blu Ray
Language: Swiss German
Subtitles: English, German, French

Cast

Hanna Anna Schinz
Silvan Pascal Vogler
Justin Maxwell Mare
Jamie Yann Leuchtmann
Joyce Shirin Hartmann
Nachbarin Margot Gödrös
Frau Hauser Lisa Brühlmann

Crew

Screenplay Romana Friedli
Direction Wendy Pillonel
Executive Producer Rea Televantos
Assistant Director Ilir Hasanaj
Script / Continuity Jennifer Vogel
Director of Photography Sarah Jüstrich
Camera Lukas Graf
First assistant camera Delia Schiltknecht
Second assistant camera Laura Schmidt
Light Simon Wottreng, Flurina Marugg
Sound Engineer Lukas Erni
Boom Jean-Michel Thomet, Oliver Rogers
Production Design Emanuel Bühler, Johannes Heydrich
Production Design Assistent Franziska Hochuli
Construction studio Nicolai Wenger, Martina Maurer, Simone Gerber, Fredi Maurer, Luca Pasqualini, Noam Zucker, Aurelia Buchli, Annatina Huwyler, Gianina Flepp, Martin Holzhauer, Ellen Pony Wild, Martin  Maillard, Sarah Jüstrich
Carpenter Roger Martin
Patina Tutoring Barbara Rusterholz
Set Dressing Tutoring Ursi Buchmann
Costume Design Irene Schweizer
Make Up & garderobe Anna Gerber, Natasha Zünd
Location Manager Anna Furrer
Runners Manuela Rüegg, David Oesch, Myriam Streiff, Valentin Huber
Catering Sarah Bellin, Mensa Molki Toni Areal, Ingo Lehmann
Coach Kids Theresa Heinze, Thea Rinderli, Tania Televantos
Set Photography David Oesch, Joel Correia
Casting Wendy Pillonel,
Thanks to Corina Glaus Casting, Nora Leibundgut / all_einheit Casting, Aurora Jouffroy / Kinder Agentur Swiss, Sandra Kisslig
Editor Fleur Matson
Colorgrading Ralph Wetli
Graphics Fleur Matson
Sound Design Lukas Erni
Sound Mixer Gregg Skerman
Music Alexandre Maurer
Fight, © Alexandre J. Maurer 2015
Alien X, © Alexandre J. Maurer 2015
Though, © Alexandre J. Maurer 2015

Special thanks to
Romi & Ismail Hartmann, Marimar & Mark Leuchtmann, Nunu Mare &  Dan MacGregor

Thanks to
Mirjam Zimmermann, Rafael Kistler, Laurent Angehrn, Marius Schreiber, Jan-Peter Horstmann, Johannes Müller, Flavia Müller, Miguel Sampayo, Giustino Mare, Michèle Mare, Sibyl Wäckerlin, Luca Napolitano, Simon Nagel, Fabienne Andreoli, Maria Pate, Hannes Rüttimann, Raisa Durandi, Guy Pillonel, Juliette Pillonel

Project Kurt Früh Reloaded
Fall Semester  2014-2015

Project Direction Markus Imboden
Line Producer Filippo Bonacci
Mentoring screenplay Jasmine Hoch
Mentoring camera Andreas Birkle, Stéphane Kuthy
Mentoring studio Marco Quandt
Mentoring production design Georg Bringolf, Anu Maya
Mentoring editing Mike Schaerer, Stephan Heiniger
Department Master of Arts in Film
Direction Markus Imboden

In coproduction with SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
Direction Fiction SRF Urs Fitze
Editorial departement SRF Stefan Hoffmann
Line producer SRF Esther Rutschmann

© ZHdK Master of Arts in Film Direction 2015

Parachutes, Eldorado and Mirages are going to be shown all over the world this fall!

Parachutes will be projected in Canada at the Festival de Cinéma de la Ville de Québec on September 18th and in Austria at the Innsbruck Nature Film Festival from the 21st to the 24th of October.

Eldorado will be seen in England, at the Aesthetica Short Film Festival in York, between the 6th and the 9th of November.

After India, Mirages will discover Switzerland (Upcoming Filmmakers in Lucerne on October 4th) and China (International Film & Video Festival Beijing, from the 19th to the 25th of October)

It’s september! You can watch these two short films online now.

Parachutes:

Eldorado:

Enjoy!

Irene Schweizer Film “Rough to Tender” is nominated in the following 5 categories at San Diego La Jolla Fashion Film Festival :

• Best Director
• Best Cinematography
• Best Creative Concept
• Best Editing
• Best Music

It hasn’t rained for years and the Earth has dried out. Human beings live in cliffs. One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert. The boy decides to look for water to save him. His sister Marine wants to prevent him because the sun makes people go crazy. However, a mysterious engineer maintains that he knows where the water is hiding.

Festivals

• Bangalore Short Film Festival 2014, India
• Upcoming Filmmakers, 2014, Lucerne
• International Student Film & Video Festival of Beijing, 2014, China
• Ascona Film Festival, 2015
• Festival du film étudiant Québec, 2015
• The 4th International Water and Film Event, 2015, Daegu, South Korea
• International Nature Film Festival 2015 Gödöllő, Hungary
• Gässli Film Festival, 2015, Basel
• Innsbruck Nature Film Festival 2015, Austria

Awards

• 1st Prize at the Innsbruck Nature Film Festival in the category Best Short Film

Statement

What remains in a world where there is no hope anymore?

Due to their naivety children are capable to believe that they can change things. I developed the point of view of a kid, who tries to achieve the impossible in a hopeless world. I played with the different layers of the concept « mirages ».

Mirages is the third part of a science-fiction trilogy I made during my studies at the ZHdK. In the three films I dealt with the subject of the illusion and how human beings always create goals to block out the uselessness of their existence.

Technical informations

Genre: Fiction
Year of production: 2014
Color
Length: 14 min 52
Shooting format: ARRI Alexa
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1 (16:9 Letterbox)
Sound: Dolby 5.1 / Stereo
Screening Format: DCP / HDCam SR / HDCam / Blu Ray
Language: French
Subtitles: English, German

Cast

Riham Léon Ducret
Marine Plume Ducret
Dad Guy Pillonel
Ingenieur Bartek Sozanski
Apothecary Patrice Gilly

Crew

Screenplay and Direction Wendy Pillonel
Cinematographer Tom Keller
Executive Producer Elias Dellers
Assistant Director Annie Gisler
Second Assistant Director Sami Khadraoui
Location Manager Cédric Perler
Set Manager Anna Furrer
Script / Continuity Manuela Rüegg
Coach Kids Charlotte Henderson, Julie Pillonel
Production Design Nicole Frei, Claudia Marolf, Helen Schläpfer, Jessica Schmid
Costume Design Irene Schweizer
Tailor Noemi Stoll
First assistant camera Christian Mathis, Simon Wottreng
Second assistant camera Cyrille Gsell, Johannes Bachmann
Chef electrician Tom Keller
Electricians Jérôme Furrer, Mathieu Werlen, Linus Rieser, Ilir Hasanaj
Sound Engineer Benoit Barraud
Runners Raphaël Balestra, Mélanie Gobet, Jan-Peter Horstmann, Florian Nagel, Matthias Sahli, Patrice Steinmann, Myriam Streiff, Juliette Pillonel, Guy Pillonel
Catering Angelo Balestra, Claudine Balestra, Cosima Frieden, Camille Lambert, Damian Clavel, Noémie Fragnières
Location Scouting Juliette Pillonel
Editor Yasmin Joerg
Assistant Editor Fabienne Andreoli
Matte Painter Florian Baumann (cheese & chocolate)
Computer Generated Imagery Tom Keller
Graphistes Sophie Haller, David Neuenschwander
Additional Help Benjamin Blunschi
Photography Spain Victor Felder
Colorgrading Ralph Wetli, Ellen Pony Wild
Sound Design Benoit Barraud
Sound Mixer & Music Gregg Skerman

Thanks to the locations
Gravel pit Catellani SA in Granges-Marnand and every staff member
Hermitage de la Madeleine and particularly Peter Mersch
Abbaye d’Hauterive and particularly Frère Marc and Frère Claude

Special thanks to
Victor Felder, Guy Pillonel, Juliette Pillonel, Manuèle Ducret, Alain Jotterand

Thanks to
Schiessverein Düdingen and particularly Patrick Wider
Thommen Recycling AG, Kaiseraugst
Bellevue Apotheke, Zürich and particularly Roman Schmid
K. Müller AG, Wallisellen
Verpackungsmarkt für den Selbstvermarkter, Brislach
Zivilschutzanlage Gurmels
Théâtre de Vidy and particularly Samuel Marchina
FTK Filmtechnikerkollektiv and particularly André Simmen
Madeleine Huwiler, Lukas Rast, Jean-Robert Gisler, Daniel Felder, Agnès Jobin, Ruben Dellers, Miquet Tinguely, Clara Ruffolo, Isabelle Baudet, Marie-Eve Hildebrand, David Maye, Gilles Baeriswyl, Angelo Balestra, Claudine Balestra, Jérôme Furrer, Luca Ribler,Flo Baumann, Caroline Feder, Remie Blaser, Ramòn Königshausen, Mirjam Zimmermann, Leandro Russo, Laura Stocker, Carmen Bayer, Je Helsdon, Nik Knecht, Fabian Lutz, Johannes Frei, Pius Mächler, Bauern von Salen-Reutenen, Pierre-Olivier Bachmann, Yves Seger, Gian Courtin, Claudio Pavan, Jennifer Vogel, Werner Steiner, Jovanka Orlovic, Andi Birkle, Filippo Bonacci, Robin Wenger, Rebecca Siegfried, Lisa Strautmann, Pasquale Rutishauser, Flavia Müller, Leonie Gschwend, Corina Lampert, Miguel Sampayo, Melanie Lang, Jelena Mair, Michael Eberle, Noemi Bartha, Barbara Lobeck, Manuel Gleyre, Sophie Hostettler, Clara Blanc, Marie-Laure Monney, Julie Pillonel, Martin Maillard, Benoît Ducret

With the support of Foundation Mercator, program « Engagier dich! »
Individual Project, AIP
Fall semester 2013-2014
Project Direction Christian Iseli
Project Mentor Stefan Jäger
Line Producer Filippo Bonacci
Department Bachelor of Arts in Film
Direction Bernhard Lehner

© ZHdK Bachelor of Arts in Film 2014

„Rough to tender“ tells the story of a young woman who separated from her boyfriend and is coping with her broken heart. She guards her memories in glasses and sets them free from time to time to relieve her pain. To help her find solace she is shown with a woolen blanket from Eyra a soft and tender but also delicate material. As a synonym for the product Irene Schweizer chose the character of a heartbroken woman, childlike, innocent and beautiful. Who was well represented by the actress Lilly Lorenz from Germany. We shot „rough to tender“ in one day and without a budget on two canon 5Ds with modest lighting equipment and a small crew on a rooftop in Zurich.

Nominated for : «INTERNATIONAL FASHION FILM AWARD 2014 »
Official Selection: «LA JOLLA INTERNATION FASHION FILM FESTIVAL 2014»

http://www.eyra-thomas.ch/

Music by Pathos Agogo
Script by Pathos Agogo, Hannes Baumgartner, Wendy Pillonel
Direction & editing by Hannes Baumgartner
Cinematography, light & editing by Wendy Pillonel

© Pathos Agogo 2013

Dukta is a new type of incision process to make wood and engineered wood more flexible. Because of dukta, the material gains textile-like properties and a wider range of application.

http://www.dukta.com/en/

Wintercollection 2011/2012 for the brand «Thomas».
«Thomas» is knit produced by Grannies in Switzerland.

http://www.eyra-thomas.ch/