Jessica Berglund

Current

• assistant producer at Bedouin/Viking productions
• masters student in culture and media at Linköpings universitet

Past

• Assistant to film production at shooting of documentary feature, Montreal
• Host and interviewer during special event evening at FIFA 2009 (Festival International du Film sur l'Art, Montréal)
• Public event coordinator, museum curator at National museum of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

• Producer, director, editor Point of View (documentary video) at Freelance media project: Point of View
• News media educationalist at National Museum of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
• Interactive multimedia producer at Swedish Archive of Sound and Moving Images
• Co-Creator, -producer and -interview/camera/edit at SPÅR (Trace)- Interactive documentary
• Producer & director, In Between (documentary video) at In Between (documentary video)

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Education

• Cégep du Vieux Montréal
• Linköpings universitet
• Karlstads universitet

• Centralskolan, Arvika

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Connections

69 connections

Industry

Media Production

Websites

• Point of View - film project

Jessica Berglund’s Summary

- Project management (film, new media, public events)
- Producing, directing and scriptwriting for documentary video
- Networking and contact building
- Coordination of public events within museums
- Public presentations and educationalist of media technology
- Editing audio/video

Jessica Berglund’s Experience

• Assistant to film production

  shooting of documentary feature, Montreal

  (Media Production industry)

  March 2009 — April 2009 (2 months)

  The feature documentary L'Art en Action by re-known filmmaker Magnus Isacsson.

• Host and interviewer during special event evening

  FIFA 2009 (Festival International du Film sur l'Art, Montréal)

  (Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  March 2009 — March 2009 (1 month)

  For FIFA in Montreal I hosted a retrospective and special event evening in tribute to the Swedish filmmaker Anders Wahlgren, also including a live interview with him on stage.

• Public event coordinator, museum curator

  National museum of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  (Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Museums and Institutions industry)

  March 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 7 months)

  In charge of coordinating and performing all the public events at the museum, such as conferences, exhibition openings and science weeks, etc.

• Producer, director, editor Point of View (documentary video)

  Freelance media project: Point of View

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Media Production industry)

  September 2006 — May 2007 (9 months)

  Co-produced, co-directed, co-edited the educational documentary video Point of View, a film about HIV/AIDS and youth, played out in both South Africa and Sweden. The film were part of the bigger video-project with the same name, so I also were very much involved in the creation of 5 short drama films played out in Sweden and 1 twenty minutes short film played out in South Africa with South African writers and actors. see website: www.povproject.com

• News media educationalist

  National Museum of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Museums and Institutions industry)

  March 2005 — March 2006 (1 year 1 month)

  Educating and leading the practical work with TV, radio and printed news media to scholars age 10-18 in the museums new hands-on production studio. Productions were broad casted on local TV/radio twice a week.

• Interactive multimedia producer

  Swedish Archive of Sound and Moving Images

  (Privately Held; Libraries industry)

  September 2005 — February 2006 (6 months)

  Co-produced and performed an interactive DVD-ROM (Flash) production to follow with an scientific anthology-book, now in stores. "1897-mediehistorier kring Stockholmsutställningen".

• Co-Creator, -producer and -interview/camera/edit

  SPÅR (Trace)- Interactive documentary

  (Media Production industry)

  September 2004 — June 2005 (10 months)

  SPÅR (Trace) is an interactive documentary video (we would say the first in the genre) that takes the viewer on a promenade together with a homeless woman on the streets in Sweden. She walks and talks, like she does every day, and the viewer will interact and move within the invisible pattern of (video) tracks that the production include. Explore her story in her own tempo and follow her trace...

• Producer & director, In Between (documentary video)

  In Between (documentary video)

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Media Production industry)

  December 2003 — August 2004 (9 months)

  Co-produced and co-directed the documentary video In Between - a homeless story. Played out in Cape Town, South Africa.

Jessica Berglund’s Education

• Cégep du Vieux Montréal

  French 2008 — 2009

  Full-time French studies for immigrants during 1 year

• Linköpings universitet

  Culture- and social studies and documentary media productions 2000 — 2005

  Among other things it included 5 months documentary video project co-created with one more student in Cape Town, South Africa in 2004.
  Focus on documentary video/audio productions and technology and science communication and visualization.

  Activities and Societies:

  Student-TV

• Karlstads universitet

  1 year , Film theory , 1999 — 1999

• Centralskolan, Arvika

  high school , Art and design high school , 1995 — 1998

Additional Information

Jessica Berglund’s Websites:

• Point of View - film project