16 March 2024
Author’s talk in Uppsala
Thank you Kunskapsskolan in Uppsala for inviting me to talk to two classes in year 4 about writing. Great curious children with loads questions in relation to writing and creating ideas.
8 January 2024
World premiere in sight
This year will mark the premiere for my fifth short film The Last Cupcake (På det fjärde ska det ske). Shot in 2022, supported by the Swedish Film Institute, Kulturenheten Uppsala and Helge A:son Johnsons Stiftelse, it’s been a long journey. Thank you to the most wonderful and patient team in the world!
TBC.
Happy New Year!
29 September 2023
Book fair a busy affair
This year’s book fair in Gothenburg was as good as the last one. Made many new contacts and sold a few copies. Still confused over the cheese and olive stands but I guess there’s a connection there somewhere…
24 August 2023
European Writers desk in Hamburg
Wonderful days with fellow writers from all across Europe at the yearly get-together hosted by European Writers Desk in Hamburg. Script work shops and pitching – and loads of networking and fun conversations. I’m to be a part of such a talented group of people.
4 August 2023
Watch Salvaged Love
Our fourth short has been released on SofyTV. Watch it here.
27 May 2023
Sundrenched booksignings
My book signing tour ended in its hometown – the gorgeous costal town of Trosa.
5 May
Postproduction bubble
Nearly there… our fifth short film På det fjärde ska det ske (The Last Cupcake) is is postproduction and aiming for release in autumn 2023. Stay tuned…
10 December
Christmas market in Uppsala
Cold, but a fun day together with local authors in central Uppsala. Thank you all for coming and buying my books.
2 December
Book release at Scala Theatre in Stockholm
1 December 2022
My second book is out now!
A feel-good for teens primarily aimed at girls aged 12-15. But, it’s truly a pageturner for all ages according to my editors Gabrielle Sjöstedt and Mikaela Hincks.
#vistoförlag
30 October 2022
Best Romantic Short
Salvaged Love wins Best Romantic Short at the Shanghai Short Film Festival! The festival received more than 800 films and works from filmmakers from all over the world. In the fair and impartial decision of the judges, Salvaged Love won their professional recognition and praise.
18 October 2022
Salvaged Love to Shanghai
Shanghai Short Film Festival has updated the judging status of the submission Salvaged Love to Selected.
16 October 2022
It’s a wrap!
Cinematographer Andreas Gejke in action. Photo: Rikard Lagerberg.
We did it! Four great, intensive days of filming has come to an end. Many thanks to the cast&crew – no film without you!
7 October 2022
Preproduction wrapped
Three months of casting, location and crew scouting have come to an end and my film enters the next phase – shooting!
More to come…
4 July 2022
The journey for Salvaged Love continues…
Salvaged Love has been selected for the 2022 West Sound Film Festival in the US. As an official selection, the film will be screened in Bremerton, Washington on the weekend of August 5th–7th.
This is the third time one of my films is screened at the West Sound Film Festival.
5 May 2022
Salvaged Love to India!
Salvaged Love has been selected for the Short Fiction Non-Competition Section of the 7th Bengal International Short Film Festival (BISFF) to be held at NANDAN, the Film Centre in Kolkata from 15 to 18 May 2022.
5 April 2022
Screening at Slottsbiografen
Slotts cinema from 1914 is the best place for watching films. This week, Salvaged Love was screened together with eight other shorts in the categories fiction, documentary, art. Followed by Q&A and drinks it was a fantastic evening. Grateful to be in the business and for the people I get to work with and meet.
11 March 2022
Funding for a 5th film
The financial support recently received from Kulturenheten Region Uppsala marks the start-up of my fifth short film production. Thank you!
Watch this space as the project unfolds. Time to roll up my sleeves.
22 January 2022
Script mentoring
Since the end of 2021, I’ve been coaching seven brilliant local filmmakers in screenwriting. Sponsored by Kulturenheten Uppsala as part of the Swedish Film Institute’s new talent programme, the mentorship will run until spring 2022.
8 October 2021
Salvaged Love to FilmBath
My latest short film, Salvaged Love, has been selected by the programming team to be shown at the 31st FilmBath Festival 2021, 29 Oct – 4 Nov in Bath, UK. The festival screen selected shorts before films instead of ads/trailers.
The festival decided that Salvaged Love would be really well-suited to show before the screening of the Swiss drama My Little Sister at 20:45 on 1st November, at The Little Theatre Cinema. Full details, see their web site below. Congratulations to the team!
20 August 2021
WOFFF 2021!
Proud to be part of the Women over 50 Film Festival in England where my film Salvaged Love will be screened in October this year.
15 July 2021
Winner of Best Short in Berlin!
Salvaged Love wins Best Short Film Award at the Berlin Short Film Festival in Berlin at July 15 2021.
24 June 2021
International premiere for Salvaged Love
My fourth short film Bärgad kärlek (Salvaged Love) produced 2020, has been selected for inclusion in the Berlin Short Film Festival running between July 5-15. This means international premiere! Many thanks go to an amazing cast & crew and to the Vasa Museum in Stockholm. Berlin Short will run on Eventive, July 5th-15th.
28 May 2021
Author’s talk
Thank you Kunskapsskolan in Uppsala for inviting me to talk to classes in year 4 to 5 about writing. Great kids and great questions in relation to writing and creating ideas. I hope they learnt as much as I did that that day.
13 May 2021
Second book for teens
My second book is written and sent off to various publishers in Sweden. It’s a coming-of-age novel about Em who sets a building on fire and is forced by her dad to do a writing course. She’s sent off to live with her grandma close to where the course is held. Instead of writing Em dives into an unfinished love story she finds. It turns out to be about her grandma. In the meantime, she falls in love with the ice cream van driver and together they set out to find out how the story ends but of course – nothing turns out the way she hoped for or expected.
22 January 2021
Member of the month
The author association Uppsala Författarsällskap picked me as the member of the month for January. Read the interview here (in Swedish):
Månadens medlem Gisela Nadasy (external website)
30 December 2020
Watch my film A Kiss here
22 October 2020
Distribution deal for A Kiss
The award-winning short film A Kiss will be distributed through UK-based ShortsTV. The three-year deal struck in early October covers Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and North America.
19 October 2020
Local premiere for Salvaged Love
Final take on the first day. Katahrina Bothén and Jakob Fahlstedt. Photo: Rikard Lagerberg
Salvaged Love (Bärgad kärlek) has been selected by the Uppsala International Short Film Festival as one of the region’s best films of 2020.
Watch it under the category Film i Uppland on the Kortfilmfestivalen Play channel here:
https://shortfilmfestival.com/en/
6 September 2020
Coming soon…
Graphics by: Peter Lakowitz
17 April 2020
A Kiss selected to West Sound
The short film A kiss is selected by the West Sound Film Festival in Washington, US (former Port Orchard) to be screened in August. This is the second time a Nadasy production has been chosen by the festival.
2 February 2020
It’s a wrap! Salvaged Love
Two amazing days shooting my fourth short film with incredibly talented and enthusiastic crew members. Now we’re setting sail for post-production: editing, sound, graphics, music and grading.
7 December 2019
California dreaming…
…or not. A Kiss is screened in beautiful Ojai at the Short Film Festival in California on December 14 and 15 at The Ojai Retreat & Inn from 11am 4pm.
#akiss, #giselanadasy, #ojaishortfilmfest
6 December 2019
Author visit at Sverkerskolan
Semla, tio dagar extra allt got best reviews by class 3C at Sverkerskolan in Uppsala.
The students had drawn beautiful pictures from the book, asked me some great questions and they all wrote ideas for a book number two. Thank you!
1 December 2019
A Kiss goes to India
15 November 2019
Curious minds
My first author’s visit for Semla was at Saltängen school in Stockholm.
Over 30 school children gathered today to hear the backstory to Semla. They peppered me with questions about writing, characterisation, storytelling, and other things too. It was a wonderful opportunity to meet my readers.
11 October 2019
Second screening in Africa
Very proud to have my next screening of A Kiss at Abuja International Film Festival in Nigeria.
Congratulations and – as always – kisses to my team.
27 September 2019
Semla at Bokmässan
Sweden’s largest book fair, held 26-29 September in Gothenburg, was the perfect place to introduce my children’s book Semla.
Publisher Idus had arranged a nice, warmly space which invited many interesting conversations about stories and the trade.
11 September 2019
Full house at Zita cinema
Sold out when En Kyss (A Kiss) was screened together with the wonderful shorts Stroke at Midnight and Ett Sista Farväl att the independent Stockholm cinema Zita.
The screening was followed by a Q&A together with talented filmmakers Casper Andreas and Niclas Ribbarp.
4 September 2019
A Kiss to Live at Heart
The Örebro Film and Music Festival Live at Heart screened A Kiss twice in the short film section What is Love.
23 August 2019
Yet another award for A Kiss..
A Kiss received the Indie Filmfest Award of Merit in August.
5 August 2019
Semla in the bookshop
Very happy to pass the local bookshop Uppsala Bokhandel, and find my book, Semla, tio dagar extra allt, displayed in the window.
5 August 2019
Distribution deal for After school
A two-year distribution deal has been signed with Largos Film to show After School (Efter skolan) on Sofy.tv.
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15 June 2019
Semla out now in Swedish
Illustration: Peter Lakowitz
My children’s book Semla – Tio dagar extra allt, is available to order online and out in bookshops from 4 July.
The story about a young girl struggling to come to terms with her sister leaving home is based on an original idea for a TV series pitched at the children’s film festival BUFF in Malmö. It is written for 6- to 9-year-olds, but older children might enjoy it too.
Semla is published by Idus Förlag and features fabulous illustrations by Peter Lakowitz. Thanks also to my team of proofreaders Mikaela Hincks, Gabrielle Sjöstedt and Anna Sundelin.
24 May 2019
Jury service at Youth Festival in Uppsala
It was a pleasure to sit on the jury for the FOCUS Film Festival in Uppsala together with filmmaker Gustav Skogens and festival producer Sigrid Hadenius.
After having watched several excellent short films during this past week, we came to the same conclusion that this year’s winners are in the Catagory Tungvikt: Inte riktigt en våldtäkt and in the Category Mellanvikt: Kids Looking for Attention.
More about Focus Film Festival (ext. website)
16 May 2019
Honourable Mention for A Kiss
A kiss won an Honourable Mention at Sunderland Shorts 2019. Festival Director Anne Tye, says: ”It was very well received by our audience and was a very close runner up.”
18 April 2019
Sara Lewerth nominated Best Actress
Sara Lewerth and cinematographer Roy Rossovic on set. Photo: Rikard Lagerberg
Wonderful actress Sara Lewerth starring in A Kiss has been nominated one of the prestigious Golden Reel Awards at the 2019 Vaughan International Film Festival Award. Best Actress will be announced mid-May.
14 April 2019
Screening of A Kiss in Ismailia
Watching A Kiss in Egypt was a memorable experience. Hat off to the organisers and volunteers at the the 21st Ismailia International Film Festival. The hospitality and service was way and beyond expectations. The seven days were spent travelling between the hotel and the different venues for screenings. A Kiss was screened twice during the week at prime time together with other superb short fiction films.
25 March 2019
A Kiss to Sunderland in May
The 2019 Sunderland Short Film Festival has for the second time accepted one of my films. A Kiss will be screened in mid-May.
23 March 2019
Winner of Best International Drama 2019
A Kiss was named Best International Drama 2019 at the inaugural Oxford International Short Film Festival on March 23. The festival was held in the beautiful grounds of St John’s College at the University of Oxford in the newly refurbished auditorium. Many thanks to lead actor, Henrik Norman, for taking the supporting role this time round.
6 March 2019
Canadian premiere for A Kiss
My third short will screen at the Vaughan International Film Festival in May. Much love and congratulations to my wonderful team.
3 March 2019
A Kiss to Egypt
A Kiss has been selected to the 21st edition of Ismailia Film Festival in Egypt. The festival runs between 10-16 April.
20 February 2019
UK premiere for A Kiss
A Kiss has been selected to screen at the Oxford International Film Festival on 23 March.
Oxford International Film Festival (external web site)
1 February 2019
Swedish publishing deal for Semla
Illustration: Peter Lakowitz
The original screenplay for Semla is going to be published as an illustrated children’s book by Swedish publisher Idus Förlag.
Semla – 10 Days in February is written for six- to nine-year-olds and tells the story of a young girl who does everything in her power to stop her older sister moving away from home.
Told in 10 chapters, it is a book about loving your sister more than anyone else and having parents who hide the truth.
Illustrated by Peter Lakowitz and proofread by Mikaela Hincks, Semla – 10 Days in February is due to be released in autumn 2019.
29 October 2018
Full house in Uppsala
What a week that was with two successful screenings of A Kiss of at the Uppsala International Film Festival. Once again many thanks to my team, the festival organisers and a wonderful audience.
23 October 2018
Premiere of A Kiss in Uppsala
A Kiss will have its first public screening at the Uppsala International Short Film Festival 2018 as one of eight best films produced in the region this year.
5 October 2018
Talking shop in Uppsala
On Thursday October 11, I will give a talk on the art of pitching for Kulturenheten – Region Uppsala. I can’t wait to meet other local filmmakers and exchange experiences and tips on one of the most difficult tricks of the trade.
Read more here (in Swedish)
17 September 2018
Productive workshop in the wild
Film i Öst’s Archipelago Script Lab was truly inspirational, with a world of energy and talent gathered on one island. Thanks to Soni Jorgensen for an excellent workshop, Film i Öst for arranging it all, and Kulturenheten Uppsala for sponsoring me. Rolling up my sleeves now…
7 September 2018
Archipelago Script Lab 2018
Film i Öst has picked me and nine other screenwriters to take part in a four-day workshop on a remote island off Sweden’s east coast. The scriptwriting lab, led by Soni Jorgensen, is bound to be an adventure all of its own let alone the stories we have to tell. Watch this space.
17 June 2018
Distribution deal for After School
International short film distributor and TV channel ShortsTV has bought the broadcasting rights to After School. The three-year non-exclusive deal means ShortsTV is licensed to air After School in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and South Asia.
ShortsTV is the world’s first and only 24/7 HD channel dedicated to short movies.
6 May 2018
Sunderland Shorts screens After School
After School received a warm welcome on the final day of the Sunderland Shorts Film Festival, cheered on by an engaged audience who had escaped the heat for some prime-time comedy before the award ceremony.
6 April 2018
After School is going to America!
After School has been officially selected for the 2018 Port Orchard Film Festival. The film will be screened at the Dragonfly Cinema in Port Orchard, Washington, on the weekend of 4-6 May.
26 March 2018
Slottsbiografen rolls out the red carpet
Cast and family and friends alike turned out for the premiere of A Kiss at a closed screening in Slottsbiografen on Monday night. Co-stars Sara Lewerth and Henrik Norman were joined by director of photography Roy Rossovich, sound editor Oskar Álvarez and makeup artist Jenny Guerrero. A great mix of documentary shorts and works in progress played to a full house at the event arranged by Kulturenheten – Region Uppsala.
15 March 2018
Sneak preview for A Kiss
A year after filming, A Kiss gets its sneak preview at Slottsbiografen on 26 March along with other regional films funded by Kulturenheten – Region Uppsala.
February 2018
Press coverage
Interview for the newspaper ETC in October 2017 before the kick-off of the Uppsala International Short Film Festival.
”Det skulle kunna vara en scen ur en kortfilm. Två för varandra okända kvinnor möts på perrongen i Uppsala. Det är början på min och manusförfattaren Gisela Nadasys resa till Knivsta”, skriver Matilda Nilsson i ETC.
Read the article in full. (In Swedish)
Gisela Nadasy - writer/filmmaker 