Teresa Fabik

Born 1976, Södertälje (Sweden). Writer and director, she made several short films before her feature debut, THE KETCHUP EFFECT. For this film she received the Kurt Linder scholarship 2003 for best feature debut by the Swedish Film Academy, and her film was given the Canal+ award at the Göteborg International Film Festival 2004.

Director’s statement

“THE KETCHUP EFFECT is my first feature film, and it deals with the pains and joys of growing up. Friendship and betrayal, love, the first sex experience, the struggle to fit in, but also breaking free and finding out who you are. I think these are issues that not only Swedish teenagers have to deal with, but most teenagers in the western world, as did I when I grew up”.
“The ending’s not at all realistic, of course. In reality Sophie would have been considered a slut right through school and maybe got her own back 25 years later. But I like to inspire people, to make them realise that others don’t have to set the rules. You can stand up for yourself and changes. And I like films where everything turns out right in the end”.