{"id":809,"date":"2023-04-09T15:40:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T15:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elephantsfromzerotohero.ch\/?page_id=809"},"modified":"2026-03-17T09:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:30:23","slug":"filmography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/elephantsfromzerotohero.ch\/?page_id=809","title":{"rendered":"Filmography"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"809\" class=\"elementor elementor-809\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4140cb6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4140cb6\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f71dc54\" data-id=\"f71dc54\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3c0a243 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3c0a243\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.14.0 - 26-06-2023 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Filmography<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-31749fd elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"31749fd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.14.0 - 26-06-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1192\" height=\"1221\" src=\"https:\/\/elephantsfromzerotohero.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Brigitte-Photo-2-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-1801\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elephantsfromzerotohero.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Brigitte-Photo-2-1.jpg 1192w, https:\/\/elephantsfromzerotohero.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Brigitte-Photo-2-1-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/elephantsfromzerotohero.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Brigitte-Photo-2-1-1000x1024.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/elephantsfromzerotohero.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Brigitte-Photo-2-1-768x787.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1192px) 100vw, 1192px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-66ee516 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"66ee516\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.14.0 - 26-06-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>Brigitte Uttar Kornetzky<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-917291a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"917291a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>\u00abDas Fremde ist nicht das Fremde, sondern nur das Andere in uns. Es sind die anderen Wesen, andere Nationen in uns selbst.\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a315e6a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a315e6a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Brigitte Uttar Kornetzky is a human and animal rights activist who resides in Switzerland officially since 1998.\u00a0She is a multi-facetted personality, trained in juridical science, philosophy, art, art history\u00a0and music.<\/p><p>It was in the decade of the beginning 90s that Brigitte decided to use her expertise in film making for working towards the betterment of society. She went on to produce and direct human rights films in Africa and subsequently moved her focus towards animal rights specifically elephants in India. Since 2011, Brigitte has made various films depicting the plight of elephants in India, like her film Where the Elephant Sleeps, released 2016.<\/p><p>In 2014, Brigitte founded an NGO named &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elefanteninnot.com\">Elefanten in Not&#8221;<\/a> <em>(Elephants in Need)<\/em>\u00a0in Switzerland to help alleviate health problems of the Indian elephants and help supporting Indian organisations regarding wildlife and especially elephants.<\/p><p>Brigitte is a multiple awarded filmmaker and journalist, an inspirational speaker and educationist at numerous universities and colleges in India.<\/p><p>With the heartbeat of a conservationist, for international justice and a healthy and self-sustainable environment not only in front of her house door in Switzerland but across the globe, there is with one word to say:<\/p><p>She is a passionate wild life lover who loves life to the fullest.<\/p><p><em>In den Jahren nach dem Studium finden zahlreiche Auslandsreisen statt, unter anderem nach \u00c4gypten, Italien, Neuseeland, Griechenland, T\u00fcrkei, USA, New Mexico, Marokko, Mauretanien, Sierra Leone und den Iran, und sp\u00e4ter Indien und wieder vermehrt Afrika.<\/em><\/p><p><em>\u201cViele dieser Reisen sind mit Filme machen verbunden, und haben mein Leben extrem gepr\u00e4gt, vorallem das Reisen in Kriegsgebiete, wie den Iran am 16.01.1991\u2014 am 17. 01.1991 griffen die Amerikaner den Iraq an, Zweiter Golfkrieg\u2013, und nach Sierra Leone. Mein Film \u00fcber den Warlord Charles Taylor, der \u00fcber meinem Kopf an der Nigerianischen Grenze gefasst und ab dann schwer bewacht inhaftiert wurde, die Angst eines ganzen Volkes zu erleben, hat nicht nur mein Filmschaffen gepr\u00e4gt, sondern auch meine Pers\u00f6nlichkeit.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a84bed8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a84bed8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Films<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aede053 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"aede053\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>2004<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<strong>TIMEFLAKES<\/strong>\u00a0(8<em>7min<\/em>), Dokumentarfilm, DVD, Italien, Schweiz<\/p><p><strong>2004<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<strong>MIRRORS AND PRAYERS<\/strong>, IRAN DURING THE IRAQ WAR,\u00a0Dokumentarfilm,\u00a0Teil 1 (<em>54min<\/em>) und Teil 2 (70min), DigiBeta, Iran<\/p><p><strong>2011<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<strong>GOD NO SAY SO<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>88min<\/em>), Dokumentarfilm, Sierra Leone\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>2012<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<strong>IMAGINE, THE SKY<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>83min<\/em>) Sierra Leone 2012, Dokumentarfilm, DigiBeta<\/p><p><strong>2016<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<strong>WHERE THE ELEPHANT SLEEPS<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>99min, 39sec)<\/em>\u00a0Dokumentarfilm), DCP<\/p><p><strong>2023 THE FALL AND RISE OF ELEPHANTS`PARADISE<\/strong> (50:52MIN)<\/p><p><strong>2026<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<strong>ELEPHANTS, FROM ZERO TO HERO<\/strong>\u00a0(8<em>0min, 27sec<\/em>) Dokumentarfilm, Indien.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-424f7d1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"424f7d1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Awards\/Auszeichnungen<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b50beea elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b50beea\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>2010&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>SPECIAL MENTION FOR IT`S OUTSTANDING SPIRIT,&nbsp;5th Monaco Charity Film Festival, for God No Say So (<em>88min<\/em>), FM&nbsp;PRIX DE SOLEURE, Nomination f\u00fcr den Dokumentarfilm GOD NO SAY SO (<em>88min<\/em>), Solothurner Filmtage, CH<\/p>\n<p><strong>2011&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>Filmfestivalf\u00f6rderung Swiss Films f\u00fcr GOD NO SAY SO<\/p>\n<p><strong>2011&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>GOD NO SAY SO (<em>88min<\/em>), Dokumentarfilm, Sierra Leone&nbsp;NOMINATION PRIX DE SOLEURE 2011, Solothurner Filmtage<\/p>\n<p><strong>2011&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>PERS\u00d6NLICHE AUSZEICHNUNG DES VATIKANS PAPST BENEDICTUS XVI, Staatssekretariat in Rom, Italien &#8220;M\u00f6gen Ihre Filmproduktionen den Menschen helfen, die W\u00fcrde der menschlichen Person anzuerkennen, und den Frieden und die Gerechtigkeit zwischen den V\u00f6lkern zu f\u00f6rdern.&#8221; f\u00fcr den Dokumentarfilm GOD NO SAY SO (<em>88min<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2012&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>Filmfestival-F\u00f6rderung Swiss Films f\u00fcr IMAGINE, THE SKY, CH<\/p>\n<p><strong>2015&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>Filmf\u00f6rderung Postproduktion des Kantons St. Gallen for WHERE THE ELEPHANT SLEEPS, CH<\/p>\n<p><strong>2016&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>FINALIST at the Vaasa Film Festival, Finland<\/p>\n<p><strong>2017&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>INTERNATIONAL AWARD OF MERIT at the Int. Film Festival Jakarta for Environment &amp; Conservation for WHERE THE ELEPHANT SLEEPS, Bali, Indonesia<\/p>\n<p><strong>2017&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENCE and NOMINATION of the festival with SPECIAL MENTION at the 7th Dada Phalke Int. Film Festival for WHERE THE ELEPHANT SLEEPS, New Dehli, India<\/p>\n<p><strong>2018&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>AWARD OF EXCELLENCE at the 7th Bangalore Short FF, 2018, for the documentary film BEHIND BARS, Indian Premiere, India<\/p>\n<p><strong>2018&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>BEST DIRECTOR AWARD at the 7th Kolkata Short Film Festival 2018 for&nbsp; WHERE THE ELEPHANT SLEEPS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2018&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>AWARD OF EXCELLENCE for BEHIND BARS, documentary short, India<\/p>\n<p><strong>2018&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>HONORABLE JURY MENTION at the 6th Indian Cine Film Festival for WHERE THE ELEPHANT SLEEPS, Mumbai, India<\/p>\n<p><strong>2019&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>NOMINATION ESTONIAN PEOPLE`S AWARD,&nbsp;&nbsp;for WHERE THE ELEPHANT SLEEPS (99min), P\u00e4rnu Film Festival, Estonia<\/p>\n<p><strong>2019&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>3rd TIGERLAND INDIA FILM FESTIVAL, Keynote- Speaker in the International Symposium on Human-Elephant-Conflict (HEC), Bhophal, India<\/p>\n<p><strong>2019&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>3rd TIGER AWARD for her Efforts in Biodiversity and Conservation, India<\/p>\n<p><strong>2019&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>3rd TIGER AWARD for her documentary films WHERE THE ELEPHANT SLEEPS and ELEPHANT KITCHEN, Bhopal, India<\/p>\n<p><strong>2019&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>BEST INDIAN FEATURE ECO-DOCUMENTARY AWARD for WHERE THE ELEPHANT SLEEPS, at the TINAI ECO FILM FESTIVAL Chennai, India<\/p>\n<p><strong>2019&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>ESTONIAN PEOPLE`S AWARD NOMINATION 2019 for WHERE THE ELEPHANT SLEEPS (99min), XXXIII P\u00e4rnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival, (3. Platz), Estonia<\/p>\n<p><strong>2019&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>GUEST OF HONOR, inaugurating the Science Festival &amp; the Science Film Festival in Kolkata, by invitation of the Honorable Ministry of Science &amp; Technology, Govt. of India<\/p>\n<p><strong>2019&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>SOWING AND REAPING. MASTERCLASS by Invitation of the Honorable Ministry of Science &amp; Technology, Govt. of India; Ministry of Earth Sciences, Ministry of Health &amp; Family Welfare, Govt. of India; SRFTI, CSIR-NISCAIR, International Science Film Festival of India, 6-9 November, (on location), India<\/p>\n<p><strong>2019&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>GETIKA AWARD ZOO ZURIC for Exceptional Achievements in Wildlife Conservation<\/p>\n<p><strong>2019&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>NOMINATION ESTONIAN PEOPLE&#8217; S AWARD, 3rd place<\/p>\n<p><strong>2020&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>MASTERCLASS. SCIENCE FILM MAKING IS YOUR PASSION. PROVOKE THE CHANGE. By Invitation of the International Science Film Festival of India, Kolkata (online), India<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filmography Brigitte Uttar Kornetzky \u00abDas Fremde ist nicht das Fremde, sondern nur das Andere in uns. Es sind die anderen Wesen, andere Nationen in uns selbst.\u00bb Brigitte Uttar Kornetzky is a human and animal rights activist who resides in Switzerland officially since 1998.\u00a0She is a multi-facetted personality, trained in juridical science, philosophy, art, art history\u00a0and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/elephantsfromzerotohero.ch\/?page_id=809\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Filmography<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"disabled","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"enabled","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-809","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elephantsfromzerotohero.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elephantsfromzerotohero.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elephantsfromzerotohero.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elephantsfromzerotohero.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elephantsfromzerotohero.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":155,"href":"https:\/\/elephantsfromzerotohero.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2665,"href":"https:\/\/elephantsfromzerotohero.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/809\/revisions\/2665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elephantsfromzerotohero.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}