CRISTINA KARRER
PATRICIA WAGNER
Filmmakers
CRISTINA KARRER
PATRICIA WAGNER
Filmmakers
Passionate about people, storytelling, filmic language and in-depth interviews – that is what we are. We, Cristina Karrer and Patricia Wagner, work as a team because we know that together we can achieve more than alone. Few work like we do. There is no hierarchy, we both sign off on our films. The results speak for themselves.
ABOUT CRISTINA
ABOUT PATRICIA
Born 1961, April 6 in Switzerland
2000 – now
Freelance Africa Correspondent for National Television of
Switzerland (SRF) based in Johannesburg
Various Documentaries for SRF and NZZ FORMAT
Forrest of Hope, Kenya; documentary for ARTE (2006)
1996 – 2000
Senior producer at SRF / 10vor10
Various documentaries
Writing for various newspapers
1991 – 1996
Living in Kurdistan Iraq as a freelance journalist
One year working for AFP
Research for a book about Kurdish women in a post-war context
1981 – 1991:
1989: Master of Geography and Social History, University of Zurich
1987/88: One year research assistant in Kerala
1991: Zurich Journalism Award
Published books:
My mother, her lovers and my broken heart – story of a daughter (2018)
Women and war in Kurdistan (1998)
Love stories? Women and migrants (1991)
Women in South Africa
Languages German, English, Italian, Russian, Portuguese
Born 1963, October 15 in Switzerland. Moved to Ireland in 2002 and now
lives in Ireland and Switzerland
2011 – now
Freelance film director and film editor for National Television of Switzerland
and for over 25 years for NZZ Format. Since 2016 also working as a
camerawoman
1993 – 2007
Various documentaries for NZZ FORMAT,
DSCHOINT VENTSCHR and National Swiss Television as a film director
and/or film editor
1998
Editing instructor for LAVA TV
1993
Pilot editing and conceptual collaboration NZZ Format
1992
Training and education in film editing at National Television of Switzerland (SRF)
Languages German, English, Italian
AWARDS & FESTIVALS (As film editor)
Patricia
DO-IT
Swiss Film Prize Best Documentary 2001
1st prize Locarno Film Festival, Semaine de la Critique, 2000
International Film Festival Trencianske Tepice, 2003
Visions du réel – Festival int. du cinema documentaire, 2001
20th Vancouver Int. Film Festival, 2001
Munich 16th Int. Documentary Festival, 2000
GAMBIT
1st prize Locarno Film Festival, Semaine de la Critique, 2005
Publikumspreis, Duisburg, 2005
2nd jury prize, Madrid Documentary 2006
Prix international du documentaire, Marseille 2006
Baden-Württembergischer Dokumentarpreis, 2005
International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam, 2005
Duisburger Filmwoche, 2005
Max Ophüls Preis, Saarbrücken, 2006
Munich Int. Documentary Festival, 2006
18th Festival Int. du documentaire Marseille, 2007
AWARDS & FESTIVALS (As film directors)
Cristina and Patricia
DRAMA AM GAULIGLETSCHER
Solothurner Filmtage, 2012
3rd prize New York Film Festival 2013
HIDDEN HEART
Nomination Prix du Public, Solothurner Filmtage, 2008
Zurich Film Festival, 2008
Solothurner Filmtage, 2008
3rd Film Festival Time to Live Saint-Petersburg, 2008
5th Sevilla Festival de Cine Europe, Competition, 2008
27th Fajir, International Film Festival, Teheran, 2009
Cinema Vérité Iran, 2009
WAELDER DER HOFFNUNG
Solothurner Filmtage, 2007
FILMOGRAPHY (as film directors, editors and camerawomen)
Cristina and Patricia
2020
BOTSWANA – THE END OF THE ELEPHANT PARADISE?
Documentary, 30 mins. NZZ Format
2019
IRELAND AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Documentary, 30 mins. NZZ Format
2019
SHARENTING
Documentary, 30 mins. NZZ Format
2019
PERSONALIZED NUTRITION
Documentary, 30 mins. NZZ Format
2018
THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM
Documentary, 30 mins. NZZ Format
2018
THE RUSSIAN SOUL
Documentary, 30 mins. NZZ Format
2018
MAGICAL AFRICA
Documentary, 30 min. NZZ Format
2017
NIGHTMARE TRAFFIC
Documentary, 52 mins. 3SAT, NZZ Format
2018
MAGICAL AFRICA
Documentary, 52 mins. 3SAT, NZZ Format
2016
FROZEN DREAMS
Documentary, 30 mins. NZZ Format
FILMOGRAPHY (as film editor (Selection) over 150 documentaries edited for NZZ Format)
Patricia
2007
ELISABETH KOPP - EINE WINTERREISE Cinema documentary, Director Andreas Brütsch, (90 mins.), Turnus Film
2005
GAMBIT
Cinema documentary, Director Sabine Gisiger, (107 mins.), Dschoint Ventschr
2000
DO-IT
Cinema documentary, Directors Sabine Gisiger and Marcel Zwingli,
(97 mins.), Dschoint Ventschr
1998
RAUM - STADT - BAUTEN
TV documentary, Director Edith Jud, (60 mins.), 3 SAT
1997
LOVE, PASSION, PERFECTION
TV documentary, Director Edith Jud, (60 mins.), 3 SAT
1996
LEBENSLÄNGLICH
TV documentary, Director Theo Stich, (75 mins.), eXtra-Film
1995
PIPILOTTI RIST AND HANNAH VILLIGER
TV documentary, Director Edith Jud, (60 mins.), 3 SAT
FILMOGRAPHY (as film directors, editors)
Cristina and Patricia
2016
MYTH OF THE REDHEADS
Documentary, 30 mins. NZZ Format
2016
GENERATION SCREEN
Documentary, 30 mins. NZZ Format
2015
REVIVAL OF THE PERSIAN CARPET
Documentary, 30 mins. NZZ Format
2015
LESS IS MORE – MINIHOUSE
Documentary, 30 mins. NZZ Format
2015
MATTMARK
Documentary, 52 mins. NZZ Format
2015
SAFARI – TRACKING THE WILD ANIMALS
Documentary, 30 mins. NZZ Format
2015
JOHANNESBURG- AFRICA’S NEW YORK
Documentary, 30 min. NZZ Format
2014
THE CYCHLID FROM MALAWI
Documentary, 30 mins. 3SAT, NZZ Format
2014
MADE IN TOKYO
Documentary, 52 mins. 3SAT, NZZ Format
2014
NEW FORMS OF LIVING
Documentary, 30 mins. NZZ Format
2013
WAR AGAINST THE RHINO
Documentary, 30 mins. 3SAT, NZZ Format
2012
TRAPPED ON ICE
Documentary, 52 mins. 3SAT, NZZ Format
2011- 2015
GROWING UP IN MALAWI
Longterm documentary series, Credit Suisse and Roger Federer Foundation