Anne-Frédérique Widmann is a Swiss investigative journalist, director and producer, living between

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and the USA, where she spent 9 years. Born in 1965 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, she graduated from the Graduate Institute in

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, where she was trained as a business journalist before specializing in investigative journalism and foreign reporting. Her stories were published in the Swiss daily ''La Suisse'', '' Le Nouveau Quotidien'' and the newsmagazine '' L’Hebdo''. U.S. correspondent between 1995 and 1998, she covered American politics and reported extensively on the scandal of Jewish assets retained by Swiss banks. She joined the

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, a Swiss TV broadcasting corporation, in 2003, directing various 52-minute documentaries for the prime time news show ''Temps Présent''. She became co-producer and anchor of ''Temps Présent'' from 2005 until 2010. Between 2010 and 2014, she founded and directed the investigative desk of RTS. Her investigative documentary in Colombia ''Diplomates suisses dans le piège colombien'' was granted the Prize Nicolas Bouvier in 2009. The film ''Œil pour œil, la vengeance des Kadhafi'' was selected for the Berlin Prize and nominated on the short list for the

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in 2014. In

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, in 2014-2015, she co-founded the project Windows on Death Row, a dual exhibition of cartoons by top U.S. editorial cartoonists and artworks by death row inmates. Inaugurated at the

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in Los Angeles in October 2015, Windows on Death Row toured the United States for two years and closed at

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in September 2017. Her full length documentary fil
Free Men
depicting the story of Arkansas death row inmat
Kenneth Reams
and his struggle for justice, was released in theatres in 2018. The film won four awards in international festivals, including the special jury prize at the Festival International du Cinema d'Alger (FICA) 2018. Widmann works for the Swiss TV magazines ''Mise au Point'' and ''Temps Présent.'' She won the journalism award Prix Dumur 2019 for her entire career and is married to the Swiss cartoonist Patrick Chappatte.

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