
Mia Engberg
Directing
Biography
Eva Marie 'Mia' Engberg, born September 26, 1970 in Stockholm, is a Swedish film director, screenwriter and producer. She is educated at the Dramatic Institute 1994-1997. Engberg's half-hour-long documentary The Stars We Are was nominated for a Guldbagge 1998 in the category Best Short Film. She was the initiator and producer of the rewritten short films Dirty Diaries (2009). Engberg's "autodokumentär" Belleville Baby won the documentary film award at Tempo Documentary Festival 2013. At the festival she also received the Konstnärsnämndens Mai Zetterling scholarship. Belleville Baby was also named Best Documentary at Guldbaggegalan 2014. Since autumn 2014, Engberg is a doctoral student in media at Stockholm's artistic college. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known For

The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the name Guldbaggen. The awards, first presented in 1964 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, are overseen by the Swedish Film Institute. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards. The awards ceremony was first televised in 1981.
The Guldbagge Awards

An erotic love story about falling in love with another woman and wanting to have sex with her all the time. Selma has a boring job and a boring boyfriend. When she meets Sofie at the swimming pool she can't stop thinking about her.
Selma & Sofie

A long distance call from a long lost lover makes her reminisce about their common past. She remembers the spring when they met in Paris, the riots, the vespa and the cat named Baby. A film about love, time and things that got lost along the way.
Belleville Baby

Ageing gangster Vincent works long nights and dreams of another life. When he is unexpectedly given responsibility for his teenage daughter, his life starts to change.
Lucky One

In 1996, the artist Leila K was nominated for the best album award, for her album "Manic Panic", in the Swedish Grammis Gallan. She ultimately lost the award to Dilba, and didn't take it very well. The day after, the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet published a story about Leila K peeing on the floor at the award ceremony. Leila K filed a lawsuit against them, and was offered a chance to redeem herself. The documentary also covers how Leila K built her career and stardom, from the beginning with Rob'n'Raz and their world wide mega hit "Got To Get" in 1989, up to her second album of her solo career.
Fuck You, Fuck You Very Much

A story about Carl XVI Gustaf who became the world’s youngest king. The father dies when the crown prince is only nine months old and he grows up with an obligation from which he cannot escape. In the course of two years, the director Karin af Klintberg gets to interview him. The film consists of their meetings, intermixed with scenes from the spectacle that surrounds him. A modern and poetic film about the king in which he is placed in settings we rarely otherwise see him.
Kungen

Director Mia receives a life-changing announcement and begins a journey into her own history. We also follow the astronaut's lonely journey through space and the aging gangster Vincent who makes a surprising find in his basement.
Hypermoon

Is it possible to make feminist porn? We follow the collaboration and discussions behind the scenes of the film Selma & Sofie, produced by Swedens first all female film crew. Sara and Camilla - who play the leading parts - come from a small place in the North of Sweden, and have never done anything like this before.
Bitch & Butch
A short look at Jello Biafra's run for Mayor of San Francisco.
California Ûber Alles

A documentary about the everyday lives of several youths from the Stockholm suburb of Hässelby, including a young man with ADHD and a music artist.
165 Hässelby

Mason was born a girl and has for some time taken hormones to develop his masculine traits. A documentary about the gender-bending in San Francisco.
Manhood

A Swedish woman goes to San Francisco and becomes a sex worker in the city’s lively underground scene. Narrated as a cinematic diary with a raw, honest and unfiltered authenticity.
Labor

In this slice of life documentary, Kalle, a gay, HIV-positive, wheelchair-bound skinhead and his friends Henrik and Ibrahim spend time over the Christmas holidays (Kalle's last) taking drugs, discussing life and hating people in general.
The Stars We Are

Includes 12 shorts directed by young female artists, directors and feminists to create "12 propositions to rethink pornography".