Jacqueline Veuve, filmmaker and ethnologist
Before collaborating with Jean Rouch at Paris' Musée de l'Homme in 1955 and with Richard Leacock at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jacqueline Veuve studied library research, cinema and anthropology in
Switzerland and France.
Her first short, «The Meat Basket», 1966, a co-production with Yves Yersin, launched her career as a film maker. Her first full-length
film, «Death of the Grandfather or the Sleep of the Just», was selected at the Locarno Festival of 1978. From then on, she produced
many documentaries, and two works of fiction. Her films have almost all received international prizes.
Today, Jacqueline Veuve has produced over 50 films, mainly in Switzerland – sometimes in France or in the States – shown in a
number of International Festivals. Filming and describing her country with scant nostalgia through its army, its farmers, its wine
growers, its craftspeople, the Salvation Army, and of course, its women, this film maker has become one of the most important
producers of Swiss documentaries.
