Ester Martin Bergsmark

Ester Martin Bergsmark is a Swedish movie director and screenwriter most known for the award winning documentaries Maggie in Wonderland and She Male Snails. Their first fiction feature. Something Must Break has been shown in more than fifty festivals all over the world during 2014, and it will be presented in Cleveland, Guadalajara and Dublin film festivals in 2015. The film has won ten awards, including the Tiger Award, 43rd Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Grand Jury Award in Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival or Best Film and Best Performance for Saga Becker in the Lisbon International Queer Film Festival.

Ester Martin Bergsmark was born September 29, 1982 in Stockholm, Sweden. They studied documentary at Biskops Arn Nordens Folkhgskola and were also trained at the Swedish University College of Arts Crafts and Design. Together with Swedish director Mark Hammarberg, Bergsmark directed the short film Svlj and the documentary Maggie in Wonderland . In Maggie in Wonderland they worked together with Maggie Beatrice Maggie Andersson and also participated in Svlj. Maggie in Wonderland was rewarded with a Guldbagge Award for best documentary the same year as it was released.

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