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Heinz Dill, producer
XL Productions  | Heinz Dill  |  Xavier Grin

Heinz Dill produces films since the early nineties, mainly documentary, and provides production services for film, television and commercials since 1996 with his company Louise Productions. In the eighties, at the very start, he was also involved in the music business touring bands around the world. His producer efforts have been rewarded several times, such as with a Golden Leopard at the Locarno international film festival for “iXième, a Prisoner’s Diary” by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud and Stéphane Blok (International video competition).

Feature films
2004 Production service DER SIEGER by Vickart Klante, Maran Film, TV feature for ARD, Germany. Shot at Olympic comitee, Lausanne.
Production service People, Jet Set II by Fabien Onteniente with Rupert Everett + José Garcia Shooting in Gstaad. Produced by Mandarin Films, France
2003 Producer iXième, a prisoner’s diary by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud and Stéphane Blok Golden Leopard Locarno Film Festival 2003 Video competition
2000 Production service Chaos by Coline Serreau. Produced by Les Films Alain Sarde, Paris. Shooting one week in Geneva and Basel, Switzerland
1999 Production manager Les Destinées Sentimentales by Olivier Assayas, Shooting 2 weeks in Interlaken, Switzerland Arena Films, Paris / CAB Productions, Switzerland
Production service La Débandade directed and produced by Claude Berri, Renn Productions Shooting one week in Geneva, Switzerland
1996 Production service Photographing Fairies by Nick Willing, Starry Night Film Co, UK, Shooting 1 week in Wengen and by Schilthorn, Switzerland
1996 Production manager Clandestins by N. Wadimoff/D. Chouinard, Dschoint Ventschr. Coprod. Switzerland-France-Canada-Belgium
1994 Location manager Noir comme le souvenir by J.-P. Mocky, JMH Prod./Odessa Films
1993 Production administrator Three colors: Red by K. Kieslowski, CAB/MK2
1991 Location manager L'ombre by Claude Goretta, JMH Productions, Lausanne
Documentary films :
2006 Producer Raw Beauty by Hervé Nisic, 80 min., documentary. An insight into the relationship contemporary artist have kept with Insider Art (Art brut) as a source of inspiration, since the early 20th century until today. A coproduction with Atopic Films, Paris and Swiss Television TSR-SSR.
2005 Production service Early Christianity by James Barrat, documentary for National Geographic. Shot in Geneva
Production service E=MC2 by Gary Johnstone, docu-drama for PBS ; Channel4 and Arte, Produced by Darlow Smithson, London.
Producer Desert Storm by François Kohler, documentary, 80’. An insight into the question of what is it to be a man today ?. Coproduction with Swiss Television SSR, ARTE, NFB Canada for XL Production for Film & TV Ltd. The film has been shown in regular theater in Switzerland and Belgium.
1997 Line producer Ce fou de Töpffer by Frédéric Gonseth, a documentary on R. Töpffer, 12 days in the Alps with 15 teenagers, actors, donkeys... For Swiss TV
Co-producer Courrier du Pacifique by Kamal Musale, A director's point of view of a choreography by Serge Campardon and his Company Nomades. Grand Prix Carina Ari for best documentary, (awarded inNew-York 1998) and Grand Prix all categories (awarded in Paris 1999).
1993/94 Co-producer Aï-Amour by Kamal Musale, a portrait of Carlotta Ikeda, Butoh dancer, Films du Lotus/ TSR/co-prod. F/D, Silver Fipa 1995

Music videos and films :

2003 Line producer Family Music – The Music by Christian and Wolfgang Muthspiel by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud, a coproduction with Swiss Television SRG SSR.
  Production service Phil Collins, Music video “Wake Up Call”, shot in Geneva for Warner Int’l
2002 Production service Bone Thugs n'Harmony, Music video “Home” featuring Phil Collins.
2000 Production service Maxime Le Forestier,“J’aurai ta peau” directed by Alain-Paul Mallard, produced by Molotof, Paris for Polydor (F) (Music promo)
1998 Production service Phil Collins, promo clip shot by MTV in Switzerland (Concert promo)
1993/94 Co-producer A la recherche de Rosamunde by Kamal Musale, a cinematographic approach of chamber music, documentary, Films du Lotus Co-producer

Heinz Dill

Heinz Dill
 

After its public successES in SWITZERLAND, Belgium, AT FILM FORUM IN NEW-YORK and IN QUEBEC, Desert Wind WILL BE AVALAIBLE ON DVD.



DESERT WIND on DVD

The DVD is avalaible, in a co-publishing with the Canadian National Film Board.

The DVD includes an interview with Guy CORNEAU, Canadian psychoanalist, writer and lecturer.

Interviews also with group leader Alexis Burger and director François Kohler.

Film and interviews are subtitled in English and German.

TO ORDER THE DVD:

SF 35.- (Including VAT 7.6%) + SF 5.-- postage /SF 10.- for Europe.

To order from SWITZERLAND, click here.

To order from EUROPE, click here.

For any other informations, write to info@lesouffledudesert.com.

CANADA, USA and the rest of the world :

For Canada, USA and the rest of the world, order at the Canadian National Film Board.

With the support of Guy CORNEAU

November 2006, psychiatrist, writer and lecturer Guy CORNEAU took part in a series of events organised along DESERT WIND's DVD release in Switzerland and Belgium.


USA and CANADA :

NEW-YORK, Desert Wind was screened at the Film Forum in February 2006


NY's reviews :

“Tracks thirteen men who have been brought together for a two-week trek in the Tunisian desert…the true subject matter is the men’s worries, their thoughts on relationships, and, in general, the psyche of the modern male…Watching the subjects’ emotional inhibitions get gradually peeled away is often fascinating.”

New York Magazine

“As the rigors of the trek become more grueling, the revelations grow more intimate. In the funniest scene, the men take turns stripping naked and talking about their bodies…DESERT WIND manages to take us to a seldom-visited place: the hidden corners of the straight male mind.”

Dana Stevens, The New York Times

“Led by a Swiss psychotherapist, the men confront their emotions and explode our beer-and-football notions of male bonding…their newfound openness with each other and themselves makes for funny, moving and riveting viewing.”

Steve Gartland, The L Magazine

“Fascinating.”

Jan Stuart, Newsday


by LC