Charlotte Eichhorn
Filmemacherin
is a Swiss born Producer/Director/Camerawoman/Video-Journalist
Over the last 20 years, independently and in several languages with no outside financial assistance, Charlotte has written, shot, produced and edited nearly 20documentaries on Human rights, environment and woman's issues. The short versions have all be sold to and aired on the cultural 3sat-TV for German Languages (ZDF, Swiss TV, ORF)
Charlotte spent over 40 years travelling the world as an Independent.
First as a freelance camerawoman, then as her own producer. Charlotte has written, shot and edited a wide variety from Children's, Woman's, News and Scientific programs to Documentaries, mainly in third world countries and even in war zones. These films have then be offered and aired mainly to the European based German speaking Cultural TV station 3 sat and Swiss TV.
Charlotte began as a Photographer, then did a internship at Swiss TV as one of the first camera-women in the 1970's, before studying film at the AFI. She has taken part in numerous workshops, among them with the late Polish Director Krzystof Kieslowski, has taught at several Art schools and regularly shows and speaks about her documentaries at German speaking Universities.
Two decades ago, following a close encounter with cancer, she left the professional “rat-race” and dedicated herself solely to documentaries and to teaching video skills to the youth of traditional and indigenous communities, enabling them to fight their own social and political battles via video and the Internet.
At the moment she is mainly working on a multilingual multimedia project, programmed herself and has developed it together with the Latin American correspondent Sandra Weiss.
2017 - "Reports from South America"
Sandra Weiss, journalist, and
Charlotte Eichhorn, filmmaker,
documented over the years the largely ignored and creeping genocide in Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia.
German, Spanish Version
Love and Life as they happen in
a Fishermen’s Village in Brazil
78 Min-HD- English
2014 “Doctora Mariana and the Lost World of the Mby′a- Guarani”
The Fight for Survival and Ancestral Lands of an Indigenous Tribe
82 Min-HD-English, Spanish, German Version
2013 “Zoff im Paradies”
Das Dorf Prainha do Canto Verde im Nordosten Brasiliens
German 45 Min +82 Min HD
2010 „Bio gegen die „Grüne Revolution“
Strategien gegen Klimawandel und Hunger
German 30 Min HD
2009 “The Non-Violent Rebel”
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Peace Nobel 1980
52 Min-HD Spanish-English Subtitles/ Commentary
English, Spanish and German Version
2008 „Blutgetränkte Erde“
Pistoleros, Feudalherren und Justiz gegen das brasilianische Volk der Xukuru
German 30 Min HD
2008 „Quilombolas“
Afrikanische Seelen in brasilianischer Haut
German 30 Min HD
2007 “Women Reach out”
Shadow of the Long White Cloud
Maori and Pakhea in Aotearoa – New Zealand
English, German 30 Min HDV
2007 “Mangrove Swampes, Indigenous Identity and Woman Power”
The Environmental Career of a Swiss Woman in Brazil
English, German 30 Min HDV
2006 “The Right to Drinking Water”
Sun + Water + PET = SODIS
English, German 30 Min HDV
2005 “Piraten, Landhaie und Umweltsünder”
Ein Dorf wehrt sich
Langzeitdokumetation im Nordosten Brasiliens
German 50 Min SD
2004 „Eine Schweizer Araberin“
Ein Arbeitsportrait von
Saïda Keller-Messahli
German, French , 30 Min SD
2003 “Störfall Reportage”
Im Gewöhnlichen das Aussergewöhnliche sehen
Ein Arbeitsportrait der Journalistin
Margrit Sprecher
German 30 Min SD
2003 “In Love with Science”
A Swiss Amazon in Amazonia
English, German 30 Min SD
2002 “Smoke over Amazonia”
Struggle for Survival
Leave Global Footprints
English, German 30 Min SD
1999 “KultUrschock”
10 Jahre kulturelle Freiheit in St. Petersburg
German 52 Min SD
1999 “Freelancer”
Life with an Autistic Child
45 Min SD -English Subtitles
German, Swiss German Dialekt 45 Min SD
1995 „Survive“
After-effects of an internment: survivors of Japanese internation camps and their
children.
English, Swiss German Dialect , German 52 Min SD