Ursula Meier is a French-Swiss film director and screenwriter who received the Best Director award at the 2008 Festival du Film Francophone d"Angoulême for her first theatrical feature, Home, which won the 2009 Swiss Film Prize for Bester Spielfilm as well as Bestes Drehbuch .
Education
A native of Besançon, the capital of the Franche-Comté region in eastern France, near the Swiss border, Ursula Meier graduated from Belgium"s Institut des Arts de Diffusion and served as assistant director to the internationally-renowned Swiss auteur, Alain Tanner, on his films Fourbi (1996) and Jonas et Lila, à demain (1999).
Career
The film also received a César nomination for Best First Film and a Best Film nomination at Argentina"s March del Plata Film Festival. In April, with the selection of Strong Shoulders for New York City"s New Directors/New Films Festival at the Museum of Modern Art and Film Society of Lincoln Center, she made the journey to introduce the film and participate in question-and-answer sessions. Six years later, Home was also selected for New Directors/New Films and, in April 2009, she once again made appearances at the Museum of Modern Art and The Walter Reade Theatre, introducing the New York premiere of the film.
lieutenant has also been selected as the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, making the January shortlist.
Membership
In 2013 she was a member of the jury at the 35th Moscow International Film Festival.