[3] After studying in Lausanne, she attended the School of Library and Information Science in Geneva (1952–1953)[3] Veuve then went to Paris to work on her diploma thesis and she met the French filmmaker and ethnologist Jean Rouch in 1955 at the Museum of Man.
[3] She made her first short film Le Panier à viande in 1966 with Swiss director Yves Yersin.
Jacqueline Veuve had a strong sense of attitude, of everything that has to be shown or left out so that the audience can understand.
Examples of this are the film series on the “wood professions”, the “Métiers du bois” such as the films “Claude Lebet, luthier” (“Claude Lebet, violin maker”, 1988), “Armand Rouiller, fabricant de luges” (“Armand Rouiller, Schlittenmacher ”, 1987) or “Marcellin Babey, tourneur sur bois” (“Marcellin Babey, Drechsler”, 1989) or the “Chronique vigneronne”(1999) on viticulture and the “Chronique paysanne en Gruyère” (1990), the farmer's chronicle.
[4] Throughout her lifetime, she "shot more than 60 short and feature documentaries presented in festivals around the world and crowned with international awards.