Barbara Miller is an award-winning independent documentary director and, since 2017, the president of the Swiss Directors Guild and Screenwriters Association. She has a background as a lawyer and has been working in the film industry since 2000, starting by working on the Oscar-nominated documentary War Photographer by Christian Frei. Since 2001, she has directed over 20 acclaimed documentaries for Swiss National Television and the big screen, ranging from the anti-globalisation to domestic violence, sex in the Internet and the clitoris. Barbara Miller also directed a variety of human-rights documentaries, helping to raise the voices of the poorest in Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Kosovo, Lebanon and India. Her award-winning feature-length documentary, Forbidden Voices, was shown at over 70 festivals worldwide. Her latest prizewinning documentary #Female Pleasure was a huge theatrical success, the most successful documentary in Switzerland and the most successful Swiss documentary worldwide.
Philip Delaquis, Master of Science, from Spiez, studied economics and media science. Having worked as a journalist and producer for Swiss television, he is now an independent film producer with his Zurich-based companies Das Kollektiv and Mons Veneris Films. Philip Delaquis is responsible for successful international cinematic productions such as the award-winning feature film Bruno Manser, crowd favourites such as #Female Pleasure, Guru, Yalom’s Cure, or Dürrenmatt, and now Wisdom of Happiness.