Lydia Zimmermann

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Lydia Zimmermann
Born
Lydia Martina Zimmermann Kuoni

(1966-12-30) 30 December 1966 (age 57)
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
NationalitySpanish
Education
Occupations
  • Academic
  • Activist
  • Actress
  • Author
  • Businesswoman
  • Cinematographer
  • Director
  • Editor
  • Screenwriter
Years active1989–
Employers
Known for
Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino (2002)
StyleArt film
MovementLate modernism
Children1
Parents
Awards
  • Best Director Award, St Kilda Short Film Festival, May 1995 (Wake)
  • Special Mention of the Jury Award, Girona Film Festival, October 1995 (Wake)
  • Best Film Award, Zinebi, December 1995 (Wake)
  • Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino
    )
WebsiteLydia Zimmermann's Official Website

Lydia Martina Zimmermann Kuoni (born 30 December 1966) is a Spanish Catalan actress and film director.[1]

Biography

Lydia Zimmermann was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, the daughter of Swiss Yves Zimmermann, a graphic designer, and Bignia Silvia Zimmermann-Kuoni, an anthropologist and textile designer.

She studied film in VCA Melbourne, Australia, and has worked and filmed in Spain, Haiti, Burkina Faso, Myanmar, Colombia and Switzerland.[1]

In addition, Zimmermann has taught at the European Film Actor School, at the Pompeu Fabra University Communication Department as an Associate Professor offering directing and screenwriting courses and presenting the works during conferences held at the Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya, as well as at the Ciné Institute in Jacmel, Haiti.[2] She is one of the founders of the Zürich-based film production company Artisan Films GmbH, the cultural verein Kunstruktur and the Artists in Residency Curtidas. She has studied under Jonathan Demme, Lindsay Kemp, and Cesc Gelabert, directed Sergi Belbel's Después de la lluvia and a stage adaptation of Sergio Cabrera's film The Strategy of the Snail for the theatre group Comicastros, and has a M.A. at Zurich University of the Arts.

Work

Zimmermann is probably best known for her directorial debut

TV3, on 18 December 2010.[4] She has also, among other activities, played the role of a caregiver in Agustí Villaronga's film Moon Child (1989), her acting debut, as well as the roles of a mourner in Antoni Aloy's 1999 film adaptation of the 1898 Henry James novella The Turn of the Screw titled Presence of Mind, a mother in Gemma Ventura's 2009 short film about Carl Jung The Jung Files and once again in the 2010 film Elisa K, directed by Jordi Cadena i Casanovas and Judith Colell, in which she appears among the acknowledged, and of Ana de Pombo in Agustí Villaronga's 2013 television series Carta a Eva broadcast by La 1.[5] She appeared on 27 November 2014 on the television program Àrtic broadcast by Betevé. She codirected with Agustí Villaronga a television documentary titled Fe about and broadcast by RTVE as part of the series 50 años de on 10 December 2009, and worked as a camera operator during the production of Mariano Barroso's 1994 film Mi hermano del alma and the 2011 film Barcelona, abans que el temps ho esborri directed by Mireia Ros.[6]

Zimmermann's video art, dealing with topics ranging from

The Red Notebook titled Correspondencia. She was also listed in the acknowledgments in Antonio Chavarrías' film Volverás
.

Reception

In April 2003, Zimmermann, together with Villaronga and Racine, won the

Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino (2002).[1] She appeared during the televised ceremony broadcast by TV3 and titled III Premis Gaudí de l'Acadèmia del Cinema Català, directed by Joel Joan and Adrian Smith. A 1995 short film directed by her titled Wake also won the Best Director Award at the St Kilda Short Film Festival as well as the Best Film Award at the Zinebi and a Special Mention of the Jury Award at the Girona Film Festival.[7]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ a b c Aroca, María Victoria. «Lydia Zimmermann, sencillez escogida» (Archive). S Moda El País (in Spanish). 7 January 2012. Retrieved 16 October 2015. «los padres de Lydia –el diseñador gráfico Yves Zimmermann y la diseñadora textil y antropóloga Bignia Kuoni,» «Actriz, nominada a los premios Gaudí por su papel en F, realizadora, guionista y directora,» «Presumida a su pesar, le gusta la sencillez. Los años vividos en Estados Unidos, Australia y Canadá la han acostumbrado a comprar en comercios de segunda mano,» and «Los padres de Lydia, ambos suizos, se conocieron en Estados Unidos y llegaron a Barcelona por motivos laborales.»
  2. ^ "Ciné Institute Annual Report 2012" (PDF). Ciné Institute. Retrieved 4 March 2017. "Ciné Institute Annual Report 2011" (PDF). Ciné Institute. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  3. ISBN 9780230622159. Retrieved 4 March 2017. {{cite book}}: |first2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Agustí Villaronga (22 September 2010). Cofre Agustí Villaronga
    (DVD) (in Spanish). Cameo Media S.L. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  4. TV3
    a la carta (in Catalan). 19 December 2010. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  5. ^ "Carta a Eva: Capitulo 1". RTVE a la carta (in Spanish). 2 November 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2015. "Carta a Eva: Capitulo 2". RTVE a la carta (in Spanish). 2 November 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
  6. ^ "50 años de: Fe". RTVE a la carta (in Spanish). 10 December 2009. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
  7. ^ Azad, Navid Nikkhah (2 May 2022). "Brussels Short Film Festival unveils 2022 award winners - DEED.NEWS". Retrieved 31 May 2023.
  8. Amazon.com
    (in French). Retrieved 4 March 2017.

External links

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