OUR STORY
Founded in 1996, Louise Productions started by providing production services to foreign companies coming to Switzerland for their film shooting.
In 2005, Elisa Garbar joins the company as a producer, and as a associate in 2008. Since 2008, the society focuses in developing and producing features films (short films, films, documentary and animation).
Highly committed to the filmmakers they do work with, their production approach has been rewarded with the steady success of their films, especially since three of their films have been nominated for the best European documentary Award of three of their films, and this three years in a row (!), Namely Nomadic Winter of Manuel von Sturler, winner 2012, The call of Kaveh Bakthiari in 2013, and Of Men and War of Laurent Bécue-Renard in 2014.
In 2014, two separate production units were created in Lausanne and Vevey, led respectively by Elisa Garbar and Heinz Dill.
THE TEAM
Elisa Garbar | ProducER
After studying cinema at the Sorbonne nouvelle in Paris III and then at the Ecole Nationale Louis Lumière, Elisa Garbar began her career as an assistant operator and then as a chief operator for cinema and television for almost 15 years. Since 2003, she has been producing documentary and fiction films. Elisa defends and produces, with the same passion that she renews with each new project, auteur films that are humanist, sensitive and often tackle social issues.
Monica De Almeida | Production Manager