Gabriela Pichler

Gabriela Pichler
Pichler at the 48th Guldbagge Awards
Born1980 (age 45–46)
Huddinge, Sweden
Occupations
  • Film director
  • screenwriter
Years active2010–present
Notable workEat Sleep Die (2012)

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

Biography

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]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "En debut med lyskraft" (in Swedish). Sydsvenskan. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  2. ^ "Gabriela Pichler prisad". Sveriges Radio (in Swedish). 5 August 2010. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
  3. ^ "Hej, vi finns här också" (in Swedish). Dagens Arbete. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  4. ^ "Guldbagge till Gabriela Pichler" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. 25 January 2010. Retrieved 26 January 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  5. ^ "Äta sova dö vinnare i Venedig" (in Swedish). Göteborgsposten. Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
  6. ^ "Vinnare & Nominerade" (in Swedish). Guldbaggen. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  7. ^ "Jan Myrdals tal till Maj Sjöwall och Gabriela Pichler vid prisutdelningen" (in Swedish). Jan Myrdal Society. Retrieved 21 April 2013.