June 2009
 In March 2009 Swiss filmmaker Fanny Bräuning was awarded the Best Documentary Quartz, the top Swiss film award, for her latest work, No More Smoke Signals—the story of KILI Radio, the Lakota community radio station broadcasting from Porcupine, South Dakota. In 2008 the film won other top honors, including the Zurich Film Award for Best Documentary and the Prix de Soleure, the top jury prize at the Solothurn Film Festival in Switzerland. It is being screened in 2009 in film festivals and venues in Krakau, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Montreal, New York, Munich, and County Donegal, Ireland.
Bräuning studied filmmaking at the School of Art and Design Zurich. One of the works she produced there, Meine Mutter/My Mother, told the story of her mother’s battle with multiple sclerosis, has been widely screened. In 2004 she co-founded the production company Distant Lights with Kaspar Kasics concentrating on documentary and feature films that address important social, political, and cultural issues. Bräuning, who was born in Basel, Switzerland, lives and works in Zurich.
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Fanny Bräuning - courtesy of the filmmaker |
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