Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Carole Roussopoulos, A Woman With Her Camera

Emmanuelle de RIEDMATTEN 2011 Switzerland Documentary b/w & color 76min French BD
Carole Roussopoulos (1945-2009) is a director who pioneered light video in France in the early 1970s. Through extracts from her films, archival images, and interviews with family and friends, the itinerary of a fighter who filmed the Women's Liberation Movement, factory occupations, and early gay rights demands, and who, throughout her life, gave voice to the unknown—to the "voiceless"—participants in social struggles and movements for emancipation.

Director

Emmanuelle de RIEDMATTEN

Born in 1954 in Sion, Switzerland, she received her degree in Ethnology from University of Neuchâtel in 1985, and later a Degree in Nursing. After that she began to work in the film industry. Together with Francis Reusser she found the independent film production company Le CinéAtelier SARL.

Emmanuelle de RIEDMATTEN
  • 1994  Passages de la recherche
  • 2001  Les visites de la lune
  • 2002  La terre sans mal
  • 2004  Blandine et les siens
  • 2004  JMH, une passion
  • 2006  Vivement samedi!
  • 2009  Pierre Landolt, du rêve à l'action
  • 2009  Christine Aymon, un portrait
  • 2010  Partir, rester
  • 2011《持攝影機的女人:凱洛盧索帕洛》Carole Roussopoulos, A Woman 

Director & Screenplay & Producer/ Emmanuelle de RIEDMATTEN

Executive Producer/ Francis REUSSER

Cinematography/ Camille COTTAGNOUD, Gregory PÉDAT, Francis REUSSER

Editing/ Jean REUSSER

Cast/ Carole ROUSSOPOULOS

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