Gabriela Pichler

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Gabriela Pichler
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Gabriela Pichler at the 48th Guldbagge Awards.
Born
Gabriela Katarina Pichler

(1980-03-11) 11 March 1980 (age 41)
NationalitySwedish
OccupationFilm director, screenwriter
Years active2010–present
Notable work
Eat Sleep Die (2012)

Gabriela Katarina Pichler (born 11 March 1980 in Huddinge) is a Swedish film director and screenwriter. [1]

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Biography

Pichler and her family moved from Stockholm to Örkelljunga when she was eight years old. Her mother, Ruzica Pichler, is from Bosnia and her father is from Austria. [1] Her mother plays one of the roles in her 2012 feature film debut Eat Sleep Die . [2] Pichler attended Öland's documentary school and School of Film Directing in Gothenburg. [1]

In 2010, she received a Guldbagge Award at the 45th Guldbagge Awards, in the category for Best Short film for Scratches (Skrapsår), which was her thesis at the School of Film Directing. [3] The same year she received the Bo Widerberg Scholarship. [1]

Pichler's first feature film, Eat Sleep Die , premiered in Sweden on 5 October 2012. The film won the Audience Award in International Film Critics' Week at the 69th Venice International Film Festival. [4] Pichler was awarded two Guldbagge Awards at the 48th Guldbagge Awards for her work on the film; Best Directing and Best Screenplay. The film was also awarded in the category Best Film. [5] For the film, she was also awarded the Jan Myrdal Society's little literary prize "The Robespierre Prize" on 13 April 2013 in Varberg. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "En debut med lyskraft" (in Swedish). Sydsvenskan. Retrieved 22 January 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  2. "Hej, vi finns här också" (in Swedish). Dagens Arbete. Retrieved 22 January 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  3. "Guldbagge till Gabriela Pichler" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. 25 January 2010. Archived from the original on 25 December 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2010.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  4. "Äta sova dö vinnare i Venedig" (in Swedish). Göteborgsposten. Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2012.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  5. "Vinnare & Nominerade" (in Swedish). Guldbaggen. Retrieved 22 January 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  6. "Jan Myrdals tal till Maj Sjöwall och Gabriela Pichler vid prisutdelningen" (in Swedish). Jan Myrdal Society. Retrieved April 21, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)