Anita Hugi

Anita Hugi
Jury member for the Graduation Films of 2018 (DN edition 5)

Anita Hugi studied translation studies in Zurich and Strasbourg with a post-graduate degree in cultural criticism and journalism. From 1999 she worked as a freelancer for various Swiss media, and in 2005 became editor-in-chief of Sternstunde Kunst on Swiss radio and television SRF.

Between 2005 and 2016 she programmed, produced and accompanied more than 130 Swiss productions, and initiates the film development prize Perspektive Sternstunde Kunst, which has been awarded at the Solothurn Film Festival since 2013. As the editor in charge of Sternstunde Kunst, she accompanied and programmed over 600 international film productions, most recently including films on the work and life of filmmaker Marceline Loridan-Ivens, photographer Dora Maar, and designer Charlotte Perriand.

In June 2016 she took over the program direction of the Festival International du Film sur l'Art (FIFA) in Montréal (CAN) and on August 2019 the direction of the Solothurn Film Festival, the retrospective of Swiss film.

As a journalist and editor, she published the digital online magazine Neuland in 2009 together with the artist Lena Eriksson and the journalist Judith Stofer. From 2005 to 2019 she was on the board of the independent professional journalists Zurich (FBZ), where she initiated and organized the 2010 "Prize for Independent Journalists".

As an author, curator and producer, she is fundamentally interested in cinematic narrative forms, including new and interactive ones, such as those made possible by new technologies. She pursues these with her company Narrative Boutique and her own projects such as the interactive documentary projects "Die Rote Hanna" in 2018, "DADA-DATA" which she co-directed with David Dufresne in 2016 and won the Grimme Online Award, or in 2015 the film essay on Undine Gruenter Undine "Le projet d'aimer" for which she received the 2016 Literavision Film Prize.

Anita is also active as an expert, juror and lecturer.