Barbara Miller
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 directed over twenty acclaimed documentaries for Swiss National Television and the big screen, ranging from the anti-globalization movement, the Summit Stormers (2022) to Domestic Violence (2005), Sex in the Internet (2008) and Clitoris (2005). 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 (2018) was a huge theatrical success: In 2018 & 2019 it was the most successful documentary in Switzerland and in 2019 it was the most successful Swiss documentary worldwide.
Barbara Miller is a member of the Swiss Film Academy and the European Film Academy EFA.
