Philippe Nicolet

Philippe Nicolet ( born January 4, 1953 in Lausanne ) is a Swiss journalist and director of documentary and fiction films.

Life

After obtaining university entrance Nicolet studied from 1971 to 1972 in Minneapolis. There he discovered the medium of video itself. Nicolet completed his law studies at the University of Lausanne in 1978 successfully. In his spare time he sang in the pop group Sunflower, which he had founded in 1975. After graduation, he worked for two years at the Cantonal Court.

Nicolet 1980 changed daily newspaper 24 heures. There he worked until 1992 as a journalist and reporter for opinion polls. From 1989 to 2006, he also created the archives of the media group Edipresse.

Since 1979, Nicolet hundreds of filmed interviews with personalities from politics, science and art here. For his work as a "video pioneer" he received in 1991 the price of Vaud Foundation for the artistic design of his work. Nicolet in 1993 founded their own production company, the Nicolet Vidéo Productions ( NVP). He was from 1994 to 1998, the first chief editor of the Lausanne television TVRL ( Télévision de la Région Lausannoise ) before he took on the task of turning a story of Switzerland's relations with Europe.

This resulted in a series of filmed interviews of Jean Monet Foundation Europe ( Fondation Jean Monnet pour l' Europe), who presided Henri instincts. In 2002, Nicolet began with the realization of the television series Rêveur sur la terre d' origine of Immigrants ( dreamer in the country of origin of emigrants ). The Swiss Commission of UNESCO, in 2004 the patronage of the series.

Documentary and fiction films

• Jeanne Calment, doyenne du monde ( The oldest person in the world). (1994)
• En prison ( in prison ). Documentary fiction about the preventive custody. (1995)
• Demain peut- être ( Maybe tomorrow ). Sci-fi series. (1996-1997)
• Les terriers de la mémoire ( The haunts of memory ). Documentary fiction. (1997)
• Avec Maurice Béjart ( with Maurice Béjart ). Reportage in Italy, Switzerland and Russia. (1998)
• Le Signe de onze heures ( A fantastic movie ). With Nanou Duggan, Roland Carey, Jean -Pierre Althaus and Annie Chaplin. (2000)
• Trois bâtisseurs de l'Europe (three architects in Europe ). Interview about the euro with Jacques Delors, Valery Giscard d' Estaing and Helmut Schmidt. (2001)
• Les Voyages en Orient du Baron d' Aubonne ( The Travels of Baron von Aubonne ). Documentary fiction about Jean -Baptiste Tavernier. (2005)