Jessica Nettelbladt
Jessica Maria Nettelbladt | |
|---|---|
| Born | 7 August 1972 |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1993 – present |
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 Gudrún Hauksdóttir, Helena Josefsson, Cecilia Nordlund, The Cardigans' Nina Persson and Lotta Wenglen, premiered at the Tempo documentary film festival on March 11[2] and later at New York at the Tribeca Grand 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 its 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 Prince of Dreams[14] (Drömprins,[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.
In 2021 she received Malmö City Human rights prize for her work in meeting, following, understanding and portraying vulnerable and exclusion in the society.[28]
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 – Jag_är_min_egen_Dolly_Parton
- 2016– MonaLisa_Story
- 2019– Funkiskungen
- 2019– Prince of Dreams
Books
References
- ^ "Jessica Nettelbladt". The Swedish Film Institute. Archived from the original on 2015-04-03.
- ^ Larsson, Camilla (2011-03-11). "A weird feeling of Dolly". expressen.se. Retrieved 2015-03-08.
- ^ "Documentary film-maker forging her own path". skane.com. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
- ^ "Documentary Competition". ZFF.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Nettelbladt, Jessica (2016-03-25), MonaLisa Story (Documentary, Drama), retrieved 2020-12-08
- ^ Hellsten, Anna (2016-03-24). "Imponerande skildring av en kvinnas droghelvete". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). ISSN 1101-2412. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
- ^ "MonaLisa Story release info". IMDb.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "MonaLisa Story release info". IMDb.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "2016 Film Festival in Review". Nordisk Panorama.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "svenskfilmdatabas grundfakta". Svenskfilmdatabas.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Awards". IMDb.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Funkiskungen (2019) - SFdb". Retrieved 2020-12-08.
- ^ "Stefan Berg", Wikipedia (in Swedish), 2017-02-02, retrieved 2020-12-08
- ^ "Drömprins". IMDb.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Drömprins". SFdb.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Drömprins". Tempo documentary festival.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Prince of Dreams-cphdox". CPH:DOX.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "2021-films-l-p". AMDocs.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Prince of Dreams-Somewhere in Europe". KFF.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Official selection". CBFF.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "The main competition". midff. 6 June 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "KASHISH 2021 Documentary Features in Competition". mumbaiqueerfest.com.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Best Director of a Foreign Language Documentary". filmfestinternational.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Best Editing of a Documentary". Madrid IFF.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Best Foreign Language Documentary Madrid IFF 2021". filmfestinternational.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Filmen Drömprins inviger Worldpride". Svenska kyrkan.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Madrid IFF. "Madrid IFF 2021 Winners".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Malmö City Prize for Human Rights". mynewsdesk.
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