Short biography
Gisela Nadasy has written and directed five award-winning short films. Since obtaining an MA in Screenwriting from Screen Academy in Edinburgh she has written several features as well as shorts. Gisela is also a children’s book author.
Filmography
På det fjärde ska det ske (The Last Cupcake) 2024, Bärgad kärlek (Salvaged love) 2020; En Kyss (A Kiss) 2018; Efter Skolan (After School) 2016; Ett Avsked (Hello, Goodbye) 2012.
Achievements
- Board member Uppsala Short Film Festival 2025.
- Archipelago Script Lab August 2024 with screenwriter Karin Arrhenius.
- Script coach, Talent to watch, Region Uppsala 2024.
- Author’s talk, Kunskapsskolan, Uppsala. March 2024.
- Script coach, Talent to watch, Region Uppsala 2021-2023.
- Author’s talk, Kunskapsskolan, Uppsala. May 2021.
- Jury member film festival FOCUS in Uppsala, 2019.
- Pitch seminar, Kulturenheten Uppsala in 2019.
- Archipelago Script Lab 2018 with screenwriter Soni Jorgensen.
- Pitch at the Nordic Embassies Felleshus in Berlin, Germany, 2017.
- Pitch at the Polish Film Institute in Warsaw, Poland, 2017.
- Jury member film festival FOCUS in Uppsala, 2016.
- Regional talent group Spektra, 2016.
- 2015 Uppsala International Short film Festival Talent Days sponsored by the Swedish Film Institute.
- Lasse O’Månssons Naturastipendium (writing scholarship), 2015.
- Pitch at the Polish Film Institute in Warsaw, Poland, 2015.
- Pitch at BUFF, the International Children and Young People’s Film Festival in Malmö, Sweden, 2015.
Photo: In between takes of En Kyss (A Kiss) with actor Henrik Norman. Photo: Rikard Lagerberg.
Gisela Nadasy - writer/filmmaker 