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

Biography

Pichler and her family moved from

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

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and her father is from

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. Her mother plays one of the roles in her 2012 feature film debut '' Eat Sleep Die''. 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 nam ...

at the

45th Guldbagge Awards The 45th Guldbagge Awards ceremony, presented by the Swedish Film Institute, honored the best Swedish films of 2009, and took place on 25 January 2010, and was hosted by Johan Glans, for the second year in a row. ''The Girl with the Dragon Tatt ...

, 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, '' 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 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 close ...

. 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 Swedish films of 2012 and took place January 21, 2013, at Cirkus in Stockholm. During the ceremony, the jury presented Guldbagge Awards (commonly refer ...

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

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. 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 ...

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* * 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