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 to DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, SEX IN THE INTERNET and THE CLITORIS. 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 was a huge theatrical success, 2018 & 2019 the most successful documentary in Switzerland and in 2019 the most successful Swiss documentary worldwide and toured several years as a crowd-pleaser around the globe.

Barbara Miller is a member of the Swiss Film Academy and the European Film Academy EFA.

Philip Delaquis, Master of Science, from Spiez, studied economics and media science. Having worked as a journalist and producer for Swiss television, he is now an independent film producer with his Zurich-based companies Das Kollektiv and Mons Veneris Films. Philip Delaquis is responsible for successful international cinematic productions such as the award-winning feature film BRUNO MANSER, crowd favorites such as #FEMALE PLEASURE, GURU, YALOM’s CURE, or DÜRRENMATT, and now WISDOM OF HAPPINESS. He is a member of the Swiss and European Film Academies.

Manuel Bauer, born 1966 in Zurich, is a Swiss photographer (1983–87 apprenticeship with Thomas Cugini), book author, cinematographer, and lecturer in photojournalism.

His work as a photographer features long-term reportages on subjects of social justice, human rights, and environmental causes. His photo essays have been published in international magazines and journals as well as in galleries at home and abroad.

Manuel Bauer has earned major international awards, including World Press Photo and Picture of the Year, for his photo stories and outstanding commitment. He is the only photographer to have successfully accompanied Tibetan exiles on their perilous escape across the Himalayas. 

Manuel Bauer has been documenting the life of the 14th Dalai Lama since 1990 through photography that captures the Tibetan leader’s commitment to peace on countless journeys. He dedicated 10 years of his life to the village of Sam Dzong in Mustang, Nepal, which was affected by climate change, empowering climate refugees there to build a new village for their livelihood.

Manuel Bauer is a founding member of the photographer agency Lookat Photos in Zurich (1990–2005). Today he is represented by the Hamburg agency Focus. His archive is managed by Fotostiftung Schweiz. He is the founder of TruePicture, a support program for talented photojournalists. WISDOM OF HAPPINESS was Manuel Bauer’s first time working as a cinematographer.

Humanitarian, actor, producer and Golden Globe winner, Richard Gere is known for his roles in films such as An Officer and a Gentleman, Days of Heaven, American Gigolo, Breathless, Pretty Woman, First Knight,Primal Fear, Chicago, Unfaithful, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, The Cotton Club, Shall We Dance and Internal Affairs.

Recently, Gere starred as Max in the psycho-thriller, MotherFatherSon, an eight-part series which aired on BBC Two. The series was created and written by Tom Rob Smith.

Gere’s most recent film credits include Three Christs, co-starring Peter Dinklage, Walton Goggins and Bradley Whitford; The Dinner, which was based on a novel written by Herman Koch and MAYBE I DO alongside Diane Keaton, Susan Sarandon, Luke Bracey and Emma Roberts. 

He also starred in Joseph Cedar’s film Norman:The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer, co-starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Dan Stevens, Michael Sheen, and Steve Buscemi. In 2015, he appeared in Andrew Renzi’s The Benefactor, alongside Dakota Fanning and Theo James. 

Among his recent projects are the highly acclaimed art house film Time Out of Mind, directed by Oren Moverman; and The Second-Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, directed by John Madden. Gere also appeared with Susan Sarandon in Arbitrage, directed by Nicolas Jarecki which brought him his second Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor.  

In 2009, he starred in and produced Lasse Hallström’s Hachi: A Dog’s Tale, based on the true story of a college professor’s bond with the abandoned dog he takes into his home.  In the same year, he starred in Brooklyn’s Finest alongside Don Cheadle and Ethan Hawke.

In 2007, he starred in Lasse Hallström's critically praised film The Hoax based on the true story of Clifford Irving (Gere) who sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.  In 2007, Mr. Gere appeared as one of the seven Bob Dylans in Todd Haynes’ highly acclaimed, I’m Not There. The all-star cast included Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale and Heath Ledger.

In 2003, Gere won his first Golden Globe Award as Best Actor for his portrayal of the infamous tap-dancing lawyer Billy Flynn in the musical Chicago.

Mr. Gere has won numerous humanitarian awards acknowledging his commitment to human and civil rights, health, education and the plight of those disenfranchised everywhere. For the last two decades, he has served as Chairman of the International Campaign for Tibet.

Gere’s most recent appearances on the big screen were alongside Diane Kruger in their drama, LONGING, and in OH, CANADA from director Paul Schrader, alongside Jacob Elordi and Uma Thurman. He also made his debut as Bosko in Paramount and Showtime’s hit television series, THE AGENCY, which can be streamed in full on Paramount+. Gere’s upcoming projects include THE MAKING OF and the second season of THE AGENCY.

Oren Moverman is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, an Emmy Award-winning producer and a feature film and documentary director.

Moverman wrote and directed THE MESSENGER (Oscilloscope) and RAMPART (Millennium), both starring Woody Harrelson. He was nominated for an Oscar for the screenplay of THE MESSENGER as was Harrelson for supporting actor.

He next wrote and directed TIME OUT OF MIND (IFC) and THE DINNER (The Orchard), both starring Richard Gere.

As a screenwriter, Moverman wrote Bill Pohlad’s Brian Wilson biopic LOVES & MERCY (Roadside Attractions); Ira Sachs’ MARRIED LIFE (Sony Pictures Classics); Marc Turtletaub’s PUZZLE (SPC); Berlinale Audience Award-winner JUNCTION 48 (The Orchard); and Todd Haynes’ Bob Dylan biopic I’M NOT THERE (Weinstein Company), which earned an Oscar nomination for Cate Blanchett; among other films.

Oren won an Emmy Award for producing BAD EDUCATION (HBO), starring Hugh Jackman. He also produced Kent Jones’ Tribeca Film Festival winner DIANE (IFC), executive produced by Martin Scorsese; Jennifer Fox’ THE TALE (HBO); Academy-Award winner Guy Nattiv’s SKIN (A24); Paul Dano’s WILDLIFE (IFC); Steve Buscemi’s THE LISTENER (Vertical); among others. 

Oren most recently directed the documentary series, WILLIE NELSON & FAMILY (Paramount +), which is nominated for the 2024 Outstanding Arts and Culture documentary Emmy.