Gabriela Katarina Pichler (born 11 March 1980 in

Huddinge Huddinge Municipality ( sv, Huddinge kommun) is a municipalities of Sweden, municipality in Stockholm County, east central Sweden. Its seat is located in Huddinge (), which is a part of Stockholm urban area. The municipality is, with its approxima ...

) is a Swedish film director and screenwriter.

Biography

Pichler and her family moved from

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

Örkelljunga Örkelljunga is a locality and the seat of Örkelljunga Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the ...

when she was eight years old. Her mother, Ruzica Pichler, is from

Bosnia Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and He ...

and her father is from

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

. Her mother plays one of the roles in her 2012 feature film debut ''

Eat Sleep Die ''Eat Sleep Die'' ( sv, Äta sova dö) is a 2012 Swedish film written and directed by Gabriela Pichler. Set in present-day Sweden, it follows a realistic story about an unemployed young woman named Raša ( Nermina Lukac), who struggles to find a n ...

''. Pichler attended Öland's documentary school and School of Film Directing in

Gothenburg Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has ...

. In 2010, she received a

Guldbagge Award The Guldbagge Awards ( sv, Guldbaggen, en, Gold scarab) is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the name ...

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. The same year she received the Bo Widerberg Scholarship. Pichler's first feature film, ''

'', 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 The 69th annual Venice International Film Festival, organized by Venice Biennale, took place at Venice Lido from 29 August to 8 September 2012. The festival opened with the Indian director Mira Nair's ''The Reluctant Fundamentalist'', and clos ...

. Pichler was awarded two Guldbagge Awards at the

48th Guldbagge Awards The 48th Guldbagge Awards ceremony, presented by the Swedish Film Institute, honored the best Sweden, Swedish 2012 in film, films of 2012 and took place January 21, 2013, at Cirkus (Stockholm), Cirkus in Stockholm. During the ceremony, the jury pr ...

for her work on the film; Best Directing and Best Screenplay. The film was also awarded in the category

Best Film This is a list of categories of awards commonly awarded through organizations that bestow film awards, including those presented by various film, festivals, and people's awards. Best Actor/Best Actress *See Best Actor#Film awards, Best Actress#F ...

. For the film, she was also awarded the Jan Myrdal Society's little literary prize " The Robespierre Prize" on 13 April 2013 in

Varberg Varberg () is a locality and the seat of Varberg Municipality, Halland County, Sweden, with 35,782 inhabitants in 2019. Varberg and all of Halland are well known for their "typical west coast" sandy beaches. In Varberg the coast changes from wi ...

References

External links

* * 1980 births Living people Swedish film directors Swedish screenwriters Best Director Guldbagge Award winners Best Screenplay Guldbagge Award winners People from Örkelljunga Swedish women film directors Swedish women screenwriters {{Sweden-film-bio-stub