Jessica Nettelbladt

Nettelbladt attended the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts and received her master's degree in independent filmmaking from the University of Gothenburg.[1] She currently runs the production company Lejoni Produktions.

Her documentary, I Am My Own Dolly Parton, featuring interviews with Gudrún Hauksdóttir, Helena Josefsson, Cecilia Nordlund, The Cardigans' Nina Persson and Lotta Wenglen, premiered at the Tempo documentary film festival on March 11[2] and later at New York at the Tribeca Grand as part of the Nordic Music Documentary Festival. The film began as a Dolly Parton tribute concert but evolved into a work about independent musicians, role models and parenthood.[3] The film was nominated best documentary at Zürich Filmfestival.[4]

Her feature film Monalisa Story[5] was praised by critics[6] it had it´s world premiere, and in competition as best Nordic documentary at CPH:DOX[7] December 2015. In 2016 MonaLisa Story was nominated best documentary at Tempo Awards[8] and at Nordisk Panorama[9].MonaLisa Story achieved Nordic Doc special jury award.[10] It was also nominated to best documentary at Swedish Guldbagge[11] awards 2017.

In 2019 she made the drama documentary Funkiskungen[12] in collaboration with the director Stefan Berg.[13]

Her latest feature documentary Prince of Dreams[14] (Drömprins,[15] Swedish title) was, in the spring of 2021, selected for a number of film festivals around the world, for example Tempo,[16] where it’s up for best documentary, CPH DOX,[17] American Documentary and Animation Film Festival,[18] Krakow Film Festival[19] and Carmarthen Bay Film Festival[20] in Wales. During the summer of 2021, Prince of Dreams was also nominated for best documentary[21] at the Moscow International Documentary Film Festival, KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival in India, where it’s up for best documentary,[22] as well as Madrid International Film Festival in the category of best director,[23] best editing[24] and best documentary.[25] Prince of Dreams has also been chosen as the inaugural film for World Pride 2021[26] Malmö on August 13. Nettelbladt was awarded with best director of foreign laungage film[27] for her documentary Prince of Dreams at Madrid international filmfestival 2021.

• 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 – Jag är min egen Dolly Parton
• 2016– MonaLisa Story
• 2019– Funkiskungen
• 2019– Prince of Dreams

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

• Lejoni Produktion