Mandra Wabäck is a visual artist and filmmaker born in 1970 in Stockholm, Sweden. She graduated in 1989 with a major in photography and then moved on to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, where she graduated in 1994 from the audio-visual departement. After several solo and group exhibitions in Holland and abroad, she decided to continue and explore filmmaking. In 1997 she got selected to the Dutch Film and Television Academy, where she graduated in 2001 as a filmdirector. Mandra is also teaching film and visual arts for children and grown ups.