La Donata

by Bertilla Giossi

Switzerland, 2008
Digital betacam / Betacam SP
Colour
Length: 24’
Language: Romansh

Italian premiere

Everyone in Schams, in the Swiss canton of Grigioni knows her. They call her Donata. She has been a farmer for twenty years, carrying on the farm she inherited from her aunt and uncle. When she began working the fields and raising animals, a woman alone who worked in agriculture was a rarity. Donata Clopath was always a step ahead of the others. She used organic farming techniques, when the other farmers made fun of these methods, and hosted tourists on her property when tour operators wouldn’t have dreamed of advertising “farm vacations.” Being a pioneer isn’t easy, in any way.

Bertilla Giossi
Born in 1961 in Rueras, Switzerland, she earned a degree in philosophy from the University of Zurich and began working for Radio Romantscha. Since 1998 she has worked as an editor and documentary filmmaker for Televisiun Romantscha.

Director: Bertilla Giossi
Screenplay: Bertilla Giossi
Photography: Herbert Jochum, Margarethe Sauter
Editing: Mirco Manetsch
Sound: Alex Schwendinger, René Alfred, Ueli Schärer
Producer: Peter Kreiliger
Production Company: Radio e Televisiun Rumantscha

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