FUTURE ENCOUNTER - ISABELLA EKLÖF

Writer/Director, Swedish – Notes from Underground

Eklöf is originally from Sweden, where she achieved her first degree in directing at the University of Gothenburg. With extensive experience in production management and casting for documentaries and music videos, Eklöf also produced and directed music videos and corporate films as well as working as production assistant on Swedish hit film Let The Right One In by Tomas Alfredsson. Eklöf has been hugely productive over her student years and several of her short films have gone on to tour the festival circuit.

A recent recipient of Bisballeprisen, a prestigious Danish art prize, Eklöf is developing her first feature Hvidovre with support from New Danish Screen at the Danish Film Institute. Her selected filmography as a director includes Aurora (2005), Charlie Charlie (2007), Willkommen in Barbaristan (2009) and Notes From Underground (2011), her graduation film as part of the Directing Department of the National Film School of Denmark.