22/01/2013 - Swedish director Gabriela Pichler cashed in on four out of five nominations for the Swedish national film prize, shortly after her feature debut was awarded the Swedish critics' Garbo

When Swedish director Gabriela Pichler began shooting Eat Sleep Die [+see also:
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interview: Nermina Lukac
film profile], her only credit was a short – Scratches (2008). Last night (January 21) her feature debut won big at the Guldbagge gala in Stockholm’s Cirkus, where the Swedish Film Institute presented the national film prize: Pichler collected the award in four top categories (from five nominations), including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay.

Earlier this month (January 8) the China Åhlander and Linda Sternö production for Anagram, which won the Audience Award in the Critics’ Week at the Venice International Film Festival, received the Greta for Best Film 2012 from the Association of Swedish Film Critics. Åhlander is nominated for the Lorentz Award for Best Producer at the upcoming Göteborg International Film Festival, which comes with services worth app €58,000.

Eat Sleep Die, which also shared the NDR top prize at the Nordic Film Days in Lübeck (with Danish director Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt), is the story of a 20-year-old jobless girl in a small village, who wants her life to be more than eat sleep die, while trying to meet state demands that unemployed should look for work in the whole country. The film was last year selected for a special screening at the Swedish Parliament.

At the Guldbagge gala, Swedish director Mikael Marcimain’s Call Girl [+see also:
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SWEDEN’S GULDBAGGE WINNERS 2013:

Best Film
Eat Sleep Die
Producder: China Åhlander

Best Director
Gabriela Pichler - Eat Sleep Die

Best Actress
Nermina Lukač - Eat Sleep Die

Best Actor
Johannes Brost - Avalon [+see also:
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Best Supporting Actress
Ulla Skoog - The Last Sentence [+see also:
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Best Supporting Actor
Peter Carlberg - Avalon

Best Original Screenplay
Gabriela Pichler - Eat Sleep Die

Best Cinematography
Hoyte van Hoytema, for Call Girl - Mikael Marcimain

Best Editing
Andreas Jonsson, Hanna Lejonqvist, Niels Pagh Andersen - Palme [+see also:
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Best Costume Design
Cilla Rörby - Call Girl

Best Sound Design
Petter Fladeby, Per Nyström - Call Girl

Best Make-Up
Jenny Fred - Easy Money II

Best Musical Score
Benny Andersson - Palme

Best Set Design
Lina Nordqvist - Call Girl

Best Visual Effects
Andreas Hylander - The Ice Dragon

Best Documentary
Searching for Sugar Man

Best Short
Dance Music Now

Best Foreign-Language Film
Amour [+see also:
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Lifetime Achievement Award
Swedish director, writer and actor Hans Alfredson

The Golden Sprout (for extraordinary contributions to children’s films): Swedish director Ella Lemhagen

The Audience Award
Tosh in Greece