Joëlle Bertossa

Fondatrice & Productrice suisse (Close Up Films).

Après des études en réalisation à l’INSAS (Bruxelles), Joëlle est engagée chez Akka Films à Genève. Elle travaille, entre autres, sur les films Les Secrets de Raja Amari (Festival de Venise 2009), Fix Me de Raed Andoni (ACID 2010) et Aisheen still alive in Gaza de Nicolas Wadimoff (Festival de Berlin 2010). En 2012, elle fonde sa propre société de production à Genève, Close Up Films, et suit plus de quinze projets, fiction et documentaire confondus. Elle termine actuellement un feuilleton documentaire de 5×45 minutes pour la Télévision Suisse Romande et vient de recevoir le Pardino d’Oro au festival de Locarno en 2013 pour ‘A Iucata, de Michele Pennetta, un documentaire de 38 minutes.

Swiss Owner & Main producer (Close Up Films).

Joëlle Bertossa founded Geneva-based’Close Up Films’ in 2012. Over the past five years, they have produced twenty documentary and six fiction films. These include’Volta a Terra’, a documentary directed by João Pedro Placido that premiered at Visions du Réel and was presented at ACID, Cannes in 2015;’The Shadow of Women’ by Philippe Garrel, that opened the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, and’I Am Not Your Negro’ directed by Raoul Peck, which was presented at TIFF Toronto and nominated for the 2017 Oscars. Through their work, Close Up Films aim to question the contemporary world in an original way. Involved, poetic or radical, the projects that Close Up Films wishes to defend are sometimes fragile but always engaging.

Source :
www.dohafilminstitute.com/financing/projects/grants/of-sheep-and-men