Sissel Morell Dargis

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 secret balloon world. This would become the setting of her first feature film Balomanía which premiered and won awards across the world. She is a graduate the Cuban film school (EICTV), where she directed several shorts that screened across the world. Later on she took went into games studying at The National Film School of Denmark. Here she developed the indie game Cai Cai Balão, which was nominated at the Independent Games Festival, Indiecade and exhibited at the Smithsonian Arts Museum, Museum da Favela and won Games for Change Latinamerica for best game, and game of impact. Cai Cai Balão is set in the same world as the film and is a cross over of characters and situations between the film and game.