Cristina Perincioli

Cristina Perincioli, born on 11 November 1946 in Bern, is a Swiss film director, writer, multimedia producer and webauthor who moved to Berlin in 1968 to study at the German Film and Television Academy. Her docufiction films For Women: Chapter 1 and The Power of Men is the Patience of Women advanced the causes of the women's movement in the 1970s, and both have since been restored. In 1977 she founded Sphinx Filmproduktion, and she wrote the screenplay of Anna und Edith, a television film about a lesbian relationship. From 1990 she developed interactive storytelling, producing two adventure games with interactive video, seven computer serious games for public space and several internet portals on violence against women. She has also taught at film schools and universities in Nairobi, Berlin, Babelsberg and Switzerland.