Uppsala Talent Days is a national talent programme aimed at up-and-coming filmmakers who will shape the future of the film industry. The programme offers a unique opportunity to network with filmmakers from across Sweden and to start building professional connections within the film industry. Over the course of a few intense days, the participants take part in seminars, film screenings, a national pitch, and meetings with the festival’s international guests and industry representatives.
Organised with support from the Swedish Film Institute and in collaboration with Kulturutveckling, Region Uppsala, Region Gävleborg, Film i Skåne and Film Stockholm.
Selection Committee: Louise Bown (Region Uppsala), Ludvig Rodman (Film i Skåne), Paulina Knobloch & Sigrid Hadenius (Uppsala Kortfilmfestival)
Participants
Alexander Belov
Alexander Belov is a Sweden-based filmmaker and artistic researcher with Russian and Romanian roots. Working with 16 mm, animation and archival material, he explores displacement, memory and the relationship between history and personal identity. He studied directing and screenwriting in Moscow and artistic research at Stockholm University of the Arts. His films have screened at San Sebastián (NEST), Beijing Short Film Festival (special mention), and Munich. He is now developing his first feature in Sweden.
Alva Qi Törnqvist
Alva Qi, born 1999 in Fenyi, China, grew up in the south of Sweden, where she started with performance arts. She continued studying art in France and in Sweden, where she took her Bachelor of Fine Arts at HDK-Valand. Her films are often focused on existential questions about origin, community, and history. She creates poetic worlds that evoke questions about what belonging means.
Edwin Tynan O’Mahony
Edwin Tynan O’Mahony is a Gothenburg-based producer and founder of KDALA. He began producing underground cultural events before spending several years on film and TV sets. He works with emerging filmmakers to bring distinctive, personal stories to the screen. His latest short, A House of Balloons, was nominated for Best International Fiction at Odense International Film Festival and selected as the festival’s candidate for the European Film Awards 2027.
Hanna Järgenstedt
Hanna Järgenstedt (b.1995) is an artist and filmmaker based in Stockholm, with a Bachelor of Arts in illustration from Konstfack. She works with mixed media including video, animation, papier-mâché and digital cut-outs. In her work, she tells stories that are relatable, warm, skewed, and often self-satirical.
Julia Ammouri
Inspired by fragments of personal and collective history, Julia Ammouri explores political issues and societal structures through intimate, character-driven stories. Her films have been screened at several festivals. She graduated in 2025 with a Bachelor’s degree in Directing from Stockholm University of the Arts and is currently developing short- and long-form projects, including the short fiction film The Youth Shelter 1982, selected for several pitching forums in 2026.
Julián Quevedo
Julián Quevedo is a Chilean-Swedish filmmaker based on Gotland. Born and raised in Chile, he moved to Sweden in 2009 and studied film at Biskops Arnö, Skurup and Wik. His work spans fiction, documentary and hybrid forms, often using stylised visual storytelling. His films have screened at Uppsala Short Film Festival, Nordisk Panorama and REC Berlin. Alongside filmmaking, he works with film education and distribution and is a member of the film collective RåFILM.
Maria Lundström
Maria Lundström is a filmmaker from Norrköping, working with both documentary and fiction. She tries to make intimate slices of life and often from a quite personal perspective. Since 2019, she has directed four short films and is now working on two projects: a feature-length documentary on addiction and her fifth short film, last year’s winner of Uppsala Short Film Pitch – Gunnar & Greta.
Nicola Camoglio
Born and raised in Italy and based in Gothenburg since 2010, Nicola is a writer, director and producer. His first feature film, the self-financed The Eye of the Beholder, was released in 2019. Currently, Nicola is in post-production on two short films while developing two features, both with development support from SFI’s Moving Sweden, and two more shorts: one animated, and another as producer for Emma Jane Hedman’s The World Is Your Oyster, which was selected for the 2026 Prodda talent program.
Ronson Huynh
Ronsson Huynh (b. 1997) is a Stockholm-based Swedish writer/director who studied at Stockholm University of the Arts. His work focuses on complex, deeply human characters navigating emotional and moral conflicts. He is drawn to quiet tension, poetic storytelling, and a sense of longing, often exploring themes of identity, belonging, and desire. He is currently developing a new short film and his first feature film.
Simone Norberg
Simone Norberg is a Gothenburg-based filmmaker and screenwriter who graduated from the BA Film program at HDK-Valand in 2022. One of her previous films, Bad Lesbian, was nominated for a Swedish Guldbagge for Best Short Film in 2022. Her current project, Det är akut, a short film exploring a challenging friendship on the brink of ruin, will premiere next year.
