Jessica Nettelbladt

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Jessica Maria Nettelbladt
Born7 August 1972
Malmö, Sweden
OccupationFilm director
Years active1993 – present
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Jessica Maria Nettelbladt (born 7 August 1972, in Malmö) is a Swedish director and documentary filmmaker, specializing in personal interviews.

Biography[]

Nettelbladt attended the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts and received her master's degree in independent filmmaking from the University of Gothenburg.[1] She currently runs the production company Lejoni Produktions.

Her documentary, I Am My Own Dolly Parton, featuring interviews with , Helena Josefsson, Cecilia Nordlund, The Cardigans' Nina Persson and , premiered at the Tempo documentary film festival on March 11[2] and later at New York at the as part of the Nordic Music Documentary Festival. The film began as a Dolly Parton tribute concert but evolved into a work about independent musicians, role models and parenthood.[3] The film was nominated best documentary at Zürich Filmfestival.[4]

Her feature film Monalisa Story[5] was praised by critics[6] it had it´s world premiere, and in competition as best Nordic documentary at CPH:DOX[7] December 2015. In 2016 MonaLisa Story was nominated best documentary at Tempo Awards[8] and at Nordisk Panorama[9].MonaLisa Story achieved Nordic Doc special jury award.[10] It was also nominated to best documentary at Swedish Guldbagge[11] awards 2017.

In 2019 she made the drama documentary Funkiskungen[12] in collaboration with the director Stefan Berg.[13]

Her latest feature documentary  [sv][14] ( [sv],[15] Swedish title) was, in the spring of 2021, selected for a number of film festivals around the world, for example Tempo,[16] where it’s up for best documentary, CPH DOX,[17] American Documentary and Animation Film Festival,[18] Krakow Film Festival[19] and Carmarthen Bay Film Festival[20] in Wales. During the summer of 2021, Prince of Dreams was also nominated for best documentary[21] at the [Moscow International Documentary Film Festival, KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival in India, where it’s up for best documentary,[22] as well as Madrid International Film Festival in the category of best director,[23] best editing[24] and best documentary.[25] Prince of Dreams has also been chosen as the inaugural film for World Pride 2021[26] Malmö on August 13. Nettelbladt was awarded with best director of foreign laungage film[27] for her documentary Prince of Dreams at Madrid international filmfestival 2021.

Filmography[]

  • 2002 – Kärlek är
  • 2003 – Livets hjul
  • 2005 – Vägen till Pärleporten
  • 2007 – Minnen dör aldrig
  • 2007 – I Edens Lustgård
  • 2008 – Under stjärnorna i Malmö
  • 2009 – Mitt Helvete
  • 2011 –  [sv]
  • 2016–  [sv]
  • 2019– Funkiskungen
  • 2019– Prince of Dreams

Books[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Jessica Nettelbladt". The Swedish Film Institute. Archived from the original on 2015-04-03.
  2. ^ Larsson, Camilla (2011-03-11). "A weird feeling of Dolly". expressen.se. Retrieved 2015-03-08.
  3. ^ "Documentary film-maker forging her own path". skane.com. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  4. ^ "Documentary Competition". ZFF.
  5. ^ Nettelbladt, Jessica (2016-03-25), MonaLisa Story (Documentary, Drama), retrieved 2020-12-08
  6. ^ Hellsten, Anna (2016-03-24). "Imponerande skildring av en kvinnas droghelvete". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). ISSN 1101-2412. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  7. ^ "MonaLisa Story release info". IMDB.
  8. ^ "MonaLisa Story release info". IMDB.
  9. ^ "2016 Film Festival in Review". Nordisk Panorama.
  10. ^ "svenskfilmdatabas grundfakta". Svenskfilmdatabas.
  11. ^ "Awards". IMDB.
  12. ^ "Funkiskungen (2019) - SFdb". Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  13. ^ "Stefan Berg", Wikipedia (in Swedish), 2017-02-02, retrieved 2020-12-08
  14. ^ "Drömprins". IMDB.
  15. ^ "Drömprins". SFdb.
  16. ^ "Drömprins". Tempo documentary festival.
  17. ^ "Prince of Dreams-cphdox". CPH:DOX.
  18. ^ "2021-films-l-p". AMDocs.
  19. ^ "Prince of Dreams-Somewhere in Europe". KFF.
  20. ^ "Official selection". CBFF.
  21. ^ "The main competition". midff.
  22. ^ "KASHISH 2021 Documentary Features in Competition". mumbaiqueerfest.com.
  23. ^ "Best Director of a Foreign Language Documentary". filmfestinternational.
  24. ^ "Best Editing of a Documentary". Madrid IFF.
  25. ^ "Best Foreign Language Documentary Madrid IFF 2021". filmfestinternational.
  26. ^ "Filmen Drömprins inviger Worldpride". Svenska kyrkan.
  27. ^ Madrid IFF. "Madrid IFF 2021 Winners".

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