Gabriel Baur
Gabriel Baur (* before 1962), also known as Gabrielle Baur, is a Swiss freelance film director and author, living in Switzerland, Lissabon and New York.[1]
Life and career
Gabriel Baur came to film through visual arts, acting and cultural anthropology. After her Master of Arts degree from the University of Zurich, she finished film school at the University of New York in 1983.[2] In-depth study of directing and screenwriting with Wojciech Marczewski (PL), Krzysztof Kieslowski (PL) and Frank Daniel (USA), among others.
Films as director and screenplay writer (selection): Glow, Venus Boyz, Die Bettkönigin, Cada día historia, Die Ausnahme und die Regel, One To Zero, A Tale. Venus Boyz is the first documentary feature film on drag kings and Female-to-Male transgender persons.[3][4] Her films have been screened at national and international festivals and in cinemas and have won numerous awards such as Berlin International Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival and Locarno International Film Festival (Venus Boyz)[5]
In 1983 she co-founded Onix Filmproduktion together with Kurt Mäder and was a lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts from 2003 until 2010. From 2010 to 2014 she was vice-president of the Federation of European Film Directors FERA and since 2018 Co-President of Swiss Women's Audiovisual Network SWAN, together with Stéphane Mitchell and Laura Kaehr. SWAN is an Network committed to more gender equality in film business.[6][7] Gabriel Baur is also a member of the Swiss Film Academy and the European Film Academy EFA.[8]
Filmography
- Glow (2017)
- Venus Boyz (2001)
- Die Bettkönigin (1994)
- Die Ausnahme und die Regel (1992)
- Cada día historia (1986)
- A Tale (1984)
References
- ↑ "Biografie Gabriel Baur". www.onixfilms.com (in Deutsch). Archived from the original on 2008-12-27. Retrieved 2020-02-04. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Swiss Films - Gabriel Baur". Swiss Films. Retrieved 2020-02-04. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Escudero-Alias, Maite (2009). Long Live the King: A Genealogy of Performative Genders. Cambridge Scolar Publishing. p. 168. ISBN 1-4438-0216-6. Search this book on
- ↑ Escudero-Alias, Maite. "Journal of Gender Studies - Shattering gender taboos in Gabriel Baur's Venus boyz". tandfonline.org. Retrieved 2020-02-04. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Venus Boyz Awards". MUBI. Retrieved 2020-02-05. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Swiss Women's Audiovisual Network". SWAN. Archived from the original on 2020-02-04. Retrieved 2020-02-04. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Denise Bucher, Christian Jungen, Andreas Scheiner, Karl Spoerri. "Diese 20 Players bewegen die Schweizer Filmszene". NZZ (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2020-02-05. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help)CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ "E F A - Members". European Film Academy. Retrieved 2020-02-04. Unknown parameter
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External links
- Gabriel Baur on Internet Movie Database
- Meet The Director – First Run Features-Interview with Gabriel Baur
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