Vera Sjunnesson

Director

Vera Sjunnesson is a writer and director born and based in Sweden. She was originally trained as a video installation artist, earning a MFA at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. In 2016 she graduated from New York University’s Graduate Film Program, were she took an MFA in film production. She was a recipients of the Tisch School of the Arts Department Fellowship as well as grants from Dr. Tech. Marcus Wallenberg Foundation. Her short film Infantile was nominated to the Best Swedish Short Award (Startsladden) at Gothenburg Film Festival. Since 2018 she has been developing her first feature film, Bathtub, produced by Momento Film in Stockholm, with which she have participated in LIM, Less is more, a European development program for filmmakers. She has previously worked with large dimensioned video installations, as an documentary photographer, editor, journalist and art department assistant on a variety of projects.