Seraina Rohrer is a Swiss audiovisual executive, academic, and innovation specialist for the creative industries.
Seraina Rohrer is a Swiss audiovisual executive, academic, and innovation specialist for the creative industries.
Rohrer studied Film and Communication at the University of Zurich. [1]
Rohrer has been a visiting scholar [2] at the Chicano Studies Research Center of the University of California in University of California, Los Angeles for her PhD research, where she conducted her research for a book titled La India María: Mexploitation and the films of María Elena Velasco [3] on the life and work of the famous Mexican comedian La India María. Rohrer lived and worked in Mexico for several years.
From 2003 to 2009, she headed the press office at the Locarno Festival and coordinated the launch of a joint masters program between Swiss colleges and universities [4] for the audiovisual sector. She worked as a free-lance curator and was an expert for the Zurich Film Foundation. From 2011 to 2019, Rohrer was the Director of the Solothurn Film Festival hosting around 65,000 spectators, one of Switzerland's leading cultural events. In her role she was in charge of the festival's program as well as its overall strategy.
Rohrer regularly publishes newspaper articles, and for the Sunday edition of NZZ, for which she wrote a monthly column between 2012 and 2015. She is a member of various cultural institutions, including the UBS Cultural Foundation. [5]
In 2020, Rohrer joined the cultural Foundation Pro Helvetia as member of the management board and head of the new sector Innovation & Society. [6] In this function, she introduced initiatives and programs on diversity and inclusion as well as programs fostering transformation (among other things, she is in charge of a focus on art, science and technology).
María Elena Velasco Fragoso was a Mexican actress, comedian, singer-songwriter and dancer. She is best known for creating and portraying La India María, a comical character based on indigenous Mexican women.
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Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) is an annual film festival that has been held in Zürich, Switzerland, since 2005. The festival's main focus is to promote emerging filmmakers from all over the world. In three competition categories only first, second or third directoral works are admitted. There are three competition sections: International Feature Film, International Documentary Film and 'Focus: Switzerland, Germany and Austria' which focuses on these three production countries. Several industry events take place in the framework of the festival, such as the ZFF Academy or the international Zurich Summit, which have rendered the film festival an international platform for the film industry.
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Seraina Piubel is a Swiss footballer who plays for FC Zürich and the Switzerland national team.
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