Jessica Maria Nettelbladt (born 7 August 1972, in

Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal popula ...

) is a Swedish director and documentary filmmaker, specializing in personal interviews.

Biography

Nettelbladt attended the

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and received her master's degree in independent filmmaking from the

University of Gothenburg The University of Gothenburg ( sv, Göteborgs universitet) is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and with 37,000 students and 6000 s ...

. She currently runs the production company Lejoni Produktions. Her documentary, ''I Am My Own Dolly Parton'', featuring interviews with

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The Cardigans The Cardigans is a Swedish rock band formed in Jönköping, Sweden, in 1992 by guitarist Peter Svensson, bassist Magnus Sveningsson, drummer Bengt Lagerberg, keyboardist Lars-Olof Johansson and lead singer Nina Persson. Post-hiatus shows since 2 ...

Nina Persson Nina Elisabet Persson (; born 6 September 1974) is the lead singer and lyricist for the Swedish rock band The Cardigans. She has also worked as a solo artist, releasing two albums as A Camp and one under her own name, and has also appeared as a ...

and

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, premiered at the Tempo documentary film festival on March 11 and later at New York at the

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as part of the Nordic Music Documentary Festival. The film began as a

Dolly Parton Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, philanthropist, and businesswoman, known primarily for her work in country music. After achieving success as a songwriter for others, Parton made her album d ...

tribute concert but evolved into a work about independent musicians, role models and parenthood. The film was nominated best documentary at Zürich Filmfestival. Her feature film Monalisa Story was praised by critics. It had its world premiere, and in competition as best Nordic documentary at CPH:DOX December 2015. In 2016 MonaLisa Story was nominated best documentary at Tempo Awards and at Nordisk Panorama. MonaLisa Story achieved Nordic Doc special jury award. It was also nominated to best documentary at Swedish Guldbagge awards 2017. In 2019 she made the drama documentary Funkiskungen in collaboration with the director Stefan Berg. Her latest feature documentary (, Swedish title) was, in the spring of 2021, selected for a number of film festivals around the world, for example Tempo, where it's up for best documentary, CPH DOX, American Documentary and Animation Film Festival, Krakow Film Festival and Carmarthen Bay Film Festival in Wales. During the summer of 2021, Prince of Dreams was also nominated for best documentary at the Moscow International Documentary Film Festival,

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in India, where it's up for best documentary, as well as Madrid International Film Festival in the category of best director, best editing and best documentary. Prince of Dreams has also been chosen as the inaugural film for World Pride 2021 Malmö on August 13. Nettelbladt was awarded with best director of foreign language film 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.

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 – ' *2016– *2019– ''Funkiskungen'' *2019– Prince of Dreams

Books

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Att leva och överleva som dokumentärfilmare
' (2012)
Röster innanför murarna
(2018)

References

External links

Lejoni Produktion
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nettelbladt, Jessica Living people 1972 births Swedish film directors Swedish women film directors People from Malmö Swedish documentary filmmakers University of Gothenburg alumni Women documentary filmmakers