Jacqueline Veuve

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1930-01-29 (83 years old)

Deathday

2013-04-18

Place of Birth

Payerne, Vaud, Switzerland

Jacqueline Veuve

Biography

Jacqueline Veuve (29 January 1930 – 18 April 2013) was a Swiss filmmaker known for "ethnographical cinema". She has been referred to as the "great lady of the Swiss documentary film." She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the 2013 Swiss Film Prize. Jacqueline Reber was born in Payerne, Switzerland, in 1930 to Maurice Reber and Yvonne Reymond. After studying in Lausanne, she attended the School of Library and Information Science in Geneva (1952–1953) Veuve then went to Paris to work on her diploma thesis and she met the French filmmaker and ethnologist Jean Rouch in 1955 at the Museum of Man. She made her first short film Le Panier...

Acting

Production

1994

1999

1994

2005

2005

2008

2012

Vibrato

as Screenplay

2012

Vibrato

as Director

1975

Swiss Graffiti

as Director

1975

1992

1960

Magritte or the Object Lesson

as Script Supervisor

2002

Jour de Marché

as Screenplay

2002

Jour de Marché

as Director

1988

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