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Rafael Alejandro Lopez is a Swiss-Venezuelan filmmaker and graphic designer, based in Los Angeles.
Raised between countries in seemingly perfect opposition, Lopez's personal work explores flawed political systems and the duality of the human condition. Through the micro-lens of human experiences, Lopez's aesthetic oscillates between absurdism, fiction and realism.
Heavily influenced by Nina Menkes' teaching throughout their time at CalArts, Lopez's approach to filmmaking strives to combat the pre-established patriarchal norms of mainstream visual language.
Aside from filmmaking, they hold an odd passion for sandwich making, and might just end up opening a bodega in Washington Heights.- Thabo Sefolosha was born on 2 May 1984 in Vevey, Kanton Waadt, Switzerland. He is married to Bertiile. They have two children.
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Jean-François Amiguet was born in 1950 in Vevey, Switzerland. He is a director and writer, known for Au sud des nuages (2003), Alexandre (1983) and L'écrivain public (1993).- Anne-Marie Blanc was born on 2 September 1919 in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. She was an actress, known for Die Manns - Ein Jahrhundertroman (2001), Der Gefangene der Botschaft (1964) and The Blonde from Peking (1967). She was married to Heinrich Fueter. She died on 5 February 2009 in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Maud was born in Switzerland with both Swiss and American citizenship. She took her first acting classes when she was six, and never quite gave up since.
After graduating from high school, Maud got accepted at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York where she completed the full-time professional training for the actor.
After a great training period in New York, Maud graduated from AADA in 2007, and relocated to Europe and got accepted straight into the third year of the Cours Florent in Paris, where she met and joined her first professional theatre company.
After graduation with honors, her professional activities have involved voice-over work for the film industry, a feature film, several short films (with a Silver Leopard for L'Amour Bègue), commercials, music video clips, modeling, acting for the camera, and of course many theatrical performances, including the Festival of Avignon 2009 and touring in Europe.
The feature film she's a main character in, The Jeweler's Shop, was released in Europe last fall.
Maud's also has her own character in two different video games: Alt-Minds, released in November 2012, and Beyond (starring Ellen Page) to be released in 2013. Her motion capture abilities as well as her native flawless American and French accents have kept her consistently working on that market for over two years, along with other camera and theatrical engagements.- Director
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Francis Reusser is a Swiss Filmmaker. Trained at the Vevey School of Photography and the TSR, Francis Reusser created with François Albera the audiovisual section of the "École supérieure de l'art visuel de Genève" (HEAD). He has directed numerous movies as well as TV magazines. He is the father of Jean Reusser who has been editing his films regularly since 2007. Francis Reusser died during the night of April 9-10, 2020 at the age of 77.- Nyta Dover, known mainly in the United States for her numerous recordings and television appearances, began her career in the Italian Cinema in the 40s & 50s. She worked with famed Italian director 'Roberto Rossilini' and Italian comic actor Toto on many of her films.
She was born Countess Antoinette de Chvalkovsky and was know as a cabaret performer in Europe and South America often called "La Contessa".
Her father was the foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia during the Nazi era. His story can be read in "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William L. Shirer. She spoke 10 languages fluently and was a frequent guest on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin, & Mike Douglas Shows as a singer and outrageous personality. She worked with everyone from Louis Armstrong to Bob Hope. Frank Sinatra brought her to the United States in the mid 60s as an opening act but he insisted in changing her stage name from Dover to Doval as he said; "Dover sounds like a fish". She married many times, her last marriage was to singer David Scism. - Director
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Albert Roth-De Markus was born on 5 December 1861 in Vevey, Canton de Vaud, Switzerland. Albert was a director and writer, known for Roulez tambours! (1913), Le roman fantastique du Dr. Mercanton ou Le justicier invisible (1916) and Une aventure de Redzipet (1908). Albert died on 22 October 1927 in Huttwil, Kanton Bern, Switzerland.- Music Department
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Ernest Ansermet was born on 11 November 1883 in Vevey, Switzerland. He is known for Cashback (2006), Lolita (1997) and Deconstructing Harry (1997). He was married to Juliette Salvisberg and Marguerite Jaccottet. He died on 20 February 1969 in Geneva, Switzerland.- Frédéric Nicole, better called Fred Nicole, is a Swiss professional climber born in 1970 in Vevey. Fred Nicole started climbing at the age of 13, with his brother François Nicole, and three years later, in 1986, he succeeded in the first repetition of the route Le Toit d'Auguste (his brother did the 2nd repetition a little after). This route, opened by the French climber Patrick Berhault near Nice, had been tried by many climbers, without success so far. Fred then offers a difficult rating of 8b+, the highest level of that time.
At the end of the 1980s, Fred discovered the climbing site of Saint-Loup in Switzerland. In 1987, he succeeded in the first ascent of Anaïs and Cannabis there, the second route rated 8c after Wall Street, opened a few months earlier by Wolfgang Güllich in Frankenjura.
From the beginning of the 1990s, Fred Nicole made a large number of ascents of blocks rated 8A and 8A+. In 1993, he made the first ascent of Bain de Sang (9a), the third route in the ninth degree after Action Directe (9a) by Wolfgang Güllich in 1991 and Om (9a) by Alexander Huber in 1992. Nevertheless, this rating will be challenged several times by its repeaters, in particular Iker Pou, considering that Bain de Sang is "easier" than Action Directe and Dave Graham, who managed his ascent in just three tries. With this achievement in the ninth degree, Fred becomes one of the few climbers to practice climbing at the highest grade both in bouldering and in cliff. In 1996, he discovered the sites of Fontainebleau and Hueco Tanks (USA), where he carried out numerous repetitions of blocks rated from 8A to 8B. He also made the first ascent of La Pierre Philosophale (8B) in Fontainebleau and La Couronne d'Aragorn (8B) in Hueco. But it is again in Branson that he stands out, with the first ascent of Radja, which becomes the first boulder in the world rated 8B+.
In 1997, he traveled to South Africa in the Rocklands area. He made many first ascents of boulders between 8A and 8B such as Leopard Cave (8A+)13 and Black Eagle (8B). Two years later, he made a second trip there and successfully completed Armed Response (8B), Oral Office (8B) and Desperado (8A+), a series of blocks opened by Klem Lostok. In 2000, he made the first ascent of Dreamtime in Cresciano in Switzerland. In 2006, Fred Nicole reached a higher level by performing the opening of Terremer originally rated 8C+, but downgraded to 8C by his second coach, Paul Robinson in 2008. Believing that the difficulty rating is very subjective, Fred Nicole often announces her overtures with a fork. According to him, this estimate is more an indication of the difficulty than an absolute truth. In the following years, he made many openings of blocks and routes of very high level without giving precise quotations. He notably made Entlinge (8B+/8C), L'isola che non c'è (9A) and Boa (around 8C).
In 2000, back in Switzerland, Fred tackled a downhill boulder in Cresciano, working an aesthetic line for a season before making an ascent in October 2000. He named it Dreamtime and asked for an 8C grade , making it the first rock to reach this level. In March 2015, at the age of 45, Nicole made the first ascent of Azark 8C. - Claude Nicollier was born on 2 September 1944 in Vevey, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. He is an actor, known for Home Improvement (1991), MTW - Menschen Technik Wissenschaft (1975) and Kidz (1992).
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Eric Gaudibert was born on 21 December 1936 in Vevey, Switzerland. He was a composer, known for Polenta (1980). He died on 28 June 2012 in Switzerland.- Director
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Claude Champion was born on 22 May 1942 in Vevey, Canton de Vaud, Switzerland. He was a director and writer, known for Quand il n'y a plus d'Eldorado (1980), Jardin (1971) and Four of Them (1968). He died on 23 December 2023 in Lausanne, Canton de Vaud, Switzerland.- Carlo Hemmerling was born on 8 November 1903 in Vevey, Canton de Vaud, Switzerland. He was a composer, known for Manouche (1943). He was married to Rose Dumur and Marguerite Claire Vuilleumier. He died on 3 October 1967 in Cully, Canton de Vaud, Switzerland.