Biography
Wendy Pillonel is a fiction and documentary film director who loves dinosaurs, science-fiction and surprising encounters.
She received her Master‘s degree in directing at the Zurich University of Arts (ZHdK) in 2017. All her short films were shown at various international festivals and her graduation film "Les Heures-Encre" won the Swiss Film Award 2019.
Besides independent projects, she sometimes works for the Swiss television as a director of docudramas and documentaries and as a lecturer at the ZHdK. She lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland.
Publication
Filmography
2024 Der Tsunami von 2004 - 91 min - docu drama - SRF
2022 Un Monde Parfait - Futura - 18 min - documentary - Dschoint Ventschr
2021 Les Nouvelles Eves - 80 min - collective documentary - Emilia Productions
2020 Bis dass der Tod euch scheidet - 91 min - docu drama - SRF
2020 Der Postraub des Jahrhunderts - 99 min - docu drama- SRF
2019 Lux - 8 min - fiction - research project from ZHdK Immersive Art Space
2017 Les Heures-Encre - 29 min - fiction - co-production Peacock Film & ZHdK
2016 Peripherie - 82 min - fiction (collective) - ZHdK
2015 Destiny - 16 min - fiction - co-production ZHdK & SRF
2014 Mirages - 15 min - fiction - ZHdK
2013 Eldorado - 12 min - fiction - ZHdK
2012 Parachutes - 6 min - fiction - ZHdK
http://wendypillonel.ch/about-wendy-pillonel/