Gabriela Pichler | |
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![]() Pichler at the 48th Guldbagge Awards | |
Born | 1980 (age 44–45) Huddinge, Sweden |
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Years active | 2010–present |
Notable work | Eat Sleep Die (2012) |
Gabriela Pichler (born 1980 in Huddinge) is a Swedish film director and screenwriter. [1]
She was born in Huddinge in 1980. [2] 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 . [3] 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. [4] 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. [5] 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. [6] For the film, she was also awarded the Jan Myrdal Society's little literary prize "The Robespierre Prize" on 13 April 2013 in Varberg. [7]