CHARLIE HADEN - A DOCUMENTARY FILM BY RETO CADUFF

Originally trained in razor sharp, modern Swiss typography, Zurich born Reto Caduff’s true passion in life and work has been the magic of music. In his teens, he started designing record covers, posters and music fanzines for local bands  and soon turned his interest to the whole record-making process, starting the record company Lux Noise at the age of 18. After producing  and recording bands in Switzerland, London, Brussels or Sidney and shooting low budget music videos for his artists, Caduff moved on to work as host for a music show at National Radio and subsequently became a producer and director at Swiss National Television (starting with a music video clip show naturally).

1994 marked his move to New York where he directed documentaries, music videos as well as a 35mm short film shot in Tucson AZ. His documentaries at that time were on fascinating american subcultures such as lowrider fanatics, Native Americans, militia soldiers, UFO believers or gun-carrying school kids - all cut to his signature style of the perfectly matching soundtrack.

In 2003, he directed the award winning documentary on the 25 year history of Switzerland’s most famous rock band: Krokus. The film was released theatricaly and on DVD

In 2005 he documented another band, the Lovebugs, on tour in Taiwan.

As a television director in his native Switzerland, he recently worked on the ratings hits “Popstars” and “MusicStar” (the American Idol of Switzerland).

He is also co-director of the critically acclaimed and award winnng documentary A Crude Awakening - The Oil Crash, depicting a gloomy future once we run out of cheap oil.

Sharing his time between Los Angeles and Zurich, he is now working on several documentaries as well as a first feature film and is a founding partner in the prodcution company piXiu films.