Sissel Morell Director

Sissel has a background in painting graffiti, which lead her to photography, and eventually documentary. As a teenager she lived in Brazil where she through graffiti became part of the balloon world. This would lead to her first feature film Balomanía. She is a graduate the Cuban film school (EICTV), where she directed several shorts that screened across the world. Her short documentary Plastico, was nominated at a number of festivals. “Plástico, her graduation film is a road movie about two pseudo delinquints who turn to tupperware to sell across the Cuba. Later on, she studied games & animation at The National Film School of Denmark. Here she developed the indie game Cai Cai Balão, which is set in the same world as the film and is a cross over of characters and situations between the film and game. It was nominated at the Independent Games Festival, Indiecade and exhibited at the Smithsonian Arts Museum, Museum da Favela and won Games 4 Change Latinamerica for Best Game, and Game of Impact. It ws recently exhibited as well at Games 4 Change in New York.