Juerg Neuenschwander


Juerg Neuenschwander is a Swiss independent documentary film director, film producer, politician and founding member of Container TV AG for film and television in Bern, Switzerland. He is a media consultant and lecturer in film and audiovisual design; director of short and feature-length documentary films, of artistic projects and interactive Multimedia productions.

Career

Documentary films
Juerg Neuenschwander has made a name for himself with cinematic documentaries such as früher oder später, Kräuter und Kräfte, and Q – Begegnungen auf der Milchstrasse.
He developed and directed a community TV project in Bern's Tscharnergut neighbourhood. He worked on location in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, China, Mali, Nepal, Switzerland and the US.
Lectureships, professorships
Juerg Neuenschwander is an expert and consultant in visual communication, he teaches film studies at Bern University of the Art, a Department of Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland,, and at the College of Design & Innovation D&I, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
1999–2008 Founder and director of the Media Lab at Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland.
2016 Juerg Neuenschwander has got a call under the Recruitment Program of Global Experts” for three years as an Overseas High-Level Talent National Chair Professor at the College of Arts & Media 艺术于传媒学院 at Tongji University, Shanghai.
Memberships

Select filmography

Feature-length documentaries
  • Daughters of a Rebel
  • Simply different/ Gleich und anders
  • The Chinese Recipe: bold and smart
  • Sooner or later
  • Encounters on the Milky Way
  • Kräuter und Kräfte
  • Shigatse – eine Spritze kommt selten allein
  • My Mother is in Sri Lanka
Television productions, short documentaries
Awards