W&H: What’s the best and worst advice you’ve received? In that time frame I have the chance to hopefully further prove myself. It means transitioning from small fry to being a recognized director, at least for a couple of years. IE: It means everything - recognition, an audience, attention to the film and a huge step towards getting the next film financed. W&H: What does it mean for you to have your film play at Sundance? Finding the local and/or well connected co-producers that could convince the various funds to look seriously at our project was essential in getting the film funded. IE: The film is made through film funds (Denmark, Holland, Eurimages and West Sweden). W&H: How did you get your film funded? Share some insights into how you got the film made. It takes time to unravel the essence of things it has to rest and mature - as do the artists. We worked for four years with the script, albeit not full time, and I’m not sure it could have been done quicker. Any false note may topple the whole construction. Working with a decidedly anti-dramatic tension as a guiding principle is, for obvious reasons, a difficult art. W&H: What was the biggest challenge in making the film? IE: I don’t believe that’s any of my business. W&H: What do you want people to think about when they are leaving the theater? The female perspective was interesting to me, letting me draw parallels to both my upbringing with stoic and old fashioned Swedish values, and relationships I’ve had with rich and/or controlling men. IE: The gangster world is - for good reason - closed off and secret, and it was a joy to explore it through my co-writer, Johanne Algren, who knows it firsthand. It’s a world where everything and everyone is a piece of candy for sale but only if they are colorful and easy, where nothing lasts for very long, and everything and nothing is at arm’s reach. IE: “Holiday” is a slapstick tragedy about the heartbreaking ruthlessness of commercialism told through a woman’s introduction into life as a gangster’s girlfriend and maybe wife - if she proves to be good enough, that is. W&H: Describe the film for us in your own words. “Holiday” will premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival on January 21. In 2012 she received Bisballeprisen, a prestigious Danish art prize, for her graduation film “Notes From Underground.” “Holiday” marks her feature directorial debut. A Swedish native, Isabella Eklöf has directed 11 short films, several of which have been screened on the international film festival circuit.
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