Mandra Wabäck

Mandra Wabäck was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1970. At age 18 she graduated from the Swedish school of photography and immediately after she moved on to Amsterdam to study at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, where she graduated in 1994 as a filmmaker and visual artist. After several solo and group exhibitions in Holland and abroad, she decided to continue and explore filmmaking. As if two schools weren't enough for her, she got selected to the prestigious Dutch Film and Television Academy, where she graduated as a filmdirector in 2001.

Mandra has set up a small production company, CUT production, to produce her own independent films. She is currently working on a contemporary dance film and a drama production. Her first documentary, "beautiful frenzy", about a Dutch band had its world première at IDFA 2001.