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Peter Entell
Born1952
New York City
Occupationdocumentary filmmaker
Years active1975–Present
Website

Peter Entell is an American-born documentary filmmaker, living in Switzerland. He has filmed in Europe, Africa, and Asia on film projects with social, political, and environmental subjects.[1][2][3]

Biography

Entell was born in New York in 1952 and moved to Switzerland in 1975, where he began to work for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as a sound recordist.[1][2][3]

The first film he directed was Moving On: The Hunger for Land in Zimbabwe, at the behest of the Belgian-Zimbabwe Friendship Association.[1]

Other films which Entell produced and directed include:

Depending on Heaven, two films on the life of Mongols in China. (1988)

The Tube, an investigation led by a journalist who tries to discover the truth about how the television affects our brains. It first was released in 2001. He re-edited the film in 2009.

Josh’s Trees, the story of the filmmaker’s best friend who dies when his son is less than a year old. Years later the boy is just beginning to ask questions about his father. (2005)

Shake the Devil Off, a film musical about New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, emphasizing St. Augustine Church and its pastor Jerome LeDoux. (2007)

In 2012, Entell released A Home far Away,[4] about fellow Americans, Broadway, television and Hollywood actress Lois Snow and her husband Edgar Snow, author of the best-selling book Red Star Over China, first American correspondent to interview Mao Tse-tung, and first American to film Mao.[1]

Like Dew in the Sun explores why people can't live together in peace. After centuries of hatred, violence and massacres, Ukraine is at war once again. An opera about a filmmaker’s journey to the land of his ancestors. (2016)

Entell produces and directs his films himself.[1]

Recognition

Entell received a Guggenheim Foundation grant in 1988.[5] He was nominated for the Swiss Film Prize for the Best Documentary for Rolling [2][3] Also the Canvas Television Prize at the Viewpoint Documentary Now Film Festival, Belgium; Silver Spire Winner at the Golden Gate Festival, USA; Jury Prize at the Parnu Film Festival, Estonia (1997)

Moving On: The Hunger for Land in Zimbabwe : 1st Prize 'Blue Ribbon' -- International Affairs and the John Grierson Award—Best film by a new director at the American Film Festival (1983)

The Testimony of Four South African Workers : International Television Prize at the North-South Media Festival, Geneva, Switzerland; 2nd Prize, 'Struggle for Peace and Justice at the Vermont World Peace Film Festival (1988)

Josh's Trees : Grand Prize of the Jury, Montreal International Film Festival, Canada; Home Movies Award, Biografilm Festival, Italy (2005)

Shake the Devil Off : Best Editing Award, Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal; Best Documentary Feature Film, Nashville Film Festival; Nomination, Best Swiss Film of the Year (2007)

Filmography

Entell's documentary films[2][3][6][7] include:

Sound engineer

  • Men's Lives – 1976

Direction

  • Moving on: The Hunger for Land in Zimbabwe (Toujours plus loin: la terre convoitée du Zimbabwe) – 1983
  • Depending on Heaven (Les caprices du ciel) – 1987
  • The Testimony of Four South African Workers (Le témoignage de quatre travailleurs sud-africains) – 1988
  • Le manteau de pluie – 1990
  • Waiting for the Caribou (En attendant le caribou) – 1991
  • L'homme et le chimpanzé – 1991
  • La maison du grand âge – 1992
  • Martha – 1994
  • Rolling – 1997
  • The Tube (Le tube) – 2001, re-edited in 2009
  • Josh's Trees (Les arbres de Josh) – 2005
  • Shake the Devil Off – 2007[8]
  • A Home Far Away (Ailleurs, ma maison) – 2012[4]
  • Like Dew in the Sun (Comme la rosée au soleil) – 2016

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Interview with Peter Entell". Living in Nyon. March 4, 2013. Retrieved November 16, 2013.
  2. ^ a b c d "Peter Entell". Documentary Alliance Films. Retrieved November 16, 2013.
  3. ^ a b c d "Peter Entell". Swiss Films. Retrieved November 16, 2013.
  4. ^ a b "A Home Far Away". Show and Tell Films. 2012. Retrieved November 16, 2013.
  5. ^ "Peter Entell: 1988 – US & Canada Competition, Creative Arts – Film". Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved November 16, 2013.
  6. ^ "Peter Entell: Filmography". New York Times. Retrieved November 16, 2013.
  7. ^ "Peter Entell". IMDB. Retrieved November 16, 2013.
  8. ^ "Shake Off the Devil". Show and Tell Films. Retrieved November 16, 2013.

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