Gabriela Pichler

Swedish director and writer. Born in 1980 in Huddinge. She is the daughter of Bosnian and Austrian parents who emigrated to Sweden. She left her job at a biscuit factory to attend the School of Film Directing in Gothenburg.

In 2009 her graduation project, the short film Scratches, received the Guldbaggen Swedish national film award and several international awards. Her debut feature film Eat Sleep Die was selected for the Critics Week section of the Venice Film Festival 2012.
(Source: Warsaw Film Festival)