Pierre Alain Meier is a Swiss director and producer whose career spans several decades and continents. After studying at INSAS in Brussels, he produced forty fiction and documentary films in countries such as Argentina, Cambodia, Senegal, Burkina Faso and Palestine. His work includes collaborations on internationally acclaimed titles such as Memoria del Saqueo by Fernando Solanas, presented at the Berlinale 2004 and awarded the Golden Honorary Bear, Rice People by Rithy Panh, selected for the Cannes International Competition in 1994, Hyenas by Djibril Diop Mambéty, in Cannes 1992, Yaaba by Idrissa Ouedraogo, shown at the Directors’ Fortnight in 1989, and Laafi Tout va bien by S. Pierre Yameogo, selected for the Critics’ Week in 1993. He also produced Salt of this Sea by Annemarie Jacir, screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2008.
Meier has worked extensively with Swiss filmmakers as well, including Olivier Zuchuat and Markus Imhoof, whose films More than Honey and Eldorado received Academy Award nominations in 2013 and 2018. His collaborations also include Jeanne Waltz’s A Parting Shot, presented at the Berlinale 2008, and Alain Tanner’s Men of the Port.
Alongside his work as a producer, Meier has directed several documentaries. These include The Dance of the Monkey and the Fish, filmed in Cambodia in 1993, and Farewell to Africa, shot in Senegal in 2017. He also directed the fiction film Thelma in 2001. His wide ranging body of work reflects a sustained commitment to international cinema and to stories that reveal the human dimensions of political and social realities.
