About
You can find the official information about me below.
Frankly, I haven’t decided yet what I’m going to do when I grow up.
I therefore have divided my webpages to four sections:
Text, Music, Photo & Film.
The film section is a dedicated site to my production company Zigzag Animation.
I could have easily added Boule Petanque, Imrov Theater or Tennis but since I don’t earn much money from those things I keep them aside (for mow).
If you are interested to know more about my privet life and my upbringing, and you know Swedish, you can read my autobiographical book “Mina Svenska Hem“.
Background and Filmography
(Download a press photo of Uzi)
Uzi Geffenblad was born 1964 in Israel. Studied the french horn (1972-1984) and has played in theatres and symphony orchestras in Israel (1979-1982) and in the military orchestra (1982-1985) before moving to Sweden in 1986.
Uzi has studied several courses in Psychology and Children’s Culture at the University of Stockholm (1989-90) as well as a course in Feminism (1991). No academic degree was acquired though.
He has worked as a Hebrew teacher (1992-1997) and a guest teacher at Media Center in Tumba Gymnasium teaching Sound for Film and Radio and Multimedia (1997-1999).
Moving to the field of film, he worked as director, scriptwriter, composer, sound engineer and producer in privately owned production company Zigzag Animation AB, starting in 1991, first as a part-time jobb with short projects collaborating with Lotta Geffenblad and Gun Jacobsson and since 1998 as a full-time jobb.
He has been assigned to the Swedish National Radio, Radio Theatre in 1994 as a musician and inspicient; as a guest lecturer at Diagonal Academy Animation school (1998-2014) and lectured at StDH Highschool (DI) 2009, University of West (2014), Steneby Highschool (2001-02), KTH Highschool of Technology (2007-08), BAU University of Barcelona (2014), Dalian University of Technology, China (2010) to mention a few.
Uzi have led workshops in animation with children in Cyprus (2008), Croatia (2014), Luxembourg (2015) and in several occasions in Sweden (Vingåker, Jönköping, Sundsvall …).
Uzi has been working to date in 36 film productions in various positions, of which 21 as a film director.
9 of those films have been awarded a total of 32 international awards.
1998-2001 Uzi was elected as Chairman of FFAF (The Swedish Association for Animated Films).
The organisation has transformed and nowadays is called SAAVA. Uzi is a board member in SAAVA since 2022.
Uzi has been mainly collaborating with his former wife Lotta Geffenblad but has also been working with other filmmakers. To mention a few – as a producer and editor on ”When we die”, by Håkan Wennström and ”The Cake” by Pia Holmqvist, and as a producer and sound engineer on the animated documentary ”Radicalized” by Klara Swantesson. Uzi has also been producing some live-action shorts in collaboration with the dancer Maria Josefsson and her sister and musician Maja Josefsson.
Together with Lotta he’s directed the 46 minutes cut-out film ”Among the thorns” the short animations ”Apricots” and ”Aston’s Stones” and the stop-motion series about ”Spot and Splodge”. Check out the Film section to a more detailed list of films and productions.
Since 2016 Uzi is also publishing and exhibiting photography.
An article (in French) in a newspaper in La Bourboule about Uzi Geffenblad as a jury member in the Children’s Film festival Plan la Bobine.
Filmworks
2018 Out Fishing – Screenplay, director, music, sound, edit, production
2014 Bro (by Maria & Maja Josefsson) – producer, edit
2013 Black Widow (by Maria Josefsson) – producer
2013 Prick och Fläck Degar – screenplay, director, music, edit, production
2013 Prick och Fläck Står på öronen – screenplay, director, music, edit, production
2013 Prick och Fläck och vattkopporna – screenplay, director, music, edit, production
2013 Prick och Fläck hos Ask-kungen – screenplay, director, music, edit, production
2013 Prick och Fläck Spårar ur – screenplay, director, music, edit, production
2013 Prick och Fläck har Disko – screenplay, director, music, edit, production
2012 Astons Presenter – screenplay, director, music, edit, special effects, production
2011 Prick och Fläck Trycker till – screenplay, director, music, edit, special effects, production
2011 Prick och Fläck Ser stjärnor – screenplay, director, music, edit, special effects, production
2011 Prick och Fläck på Pricknick – screenplay, director, music, edit, special effects, production
2011 Prick och Fläck Hemliga – screenplay, director, music, edit, special effects, production
2011 Prick och Fläck Sjön sjuger – screenplay, director, music, edit, special effects, production
2011 Prick och Fläck Tandtrollar – screenplay, director, music, edit, special effects, production
2010 Det kunde varit jag … (by Ulla-Carin Grafström) – consultant
2009 The Sleepy Revolution (by Klara Swantesson & Johanne Fronth-Nygren) – producer
2008 Prick och Fläck Snöar In – screenplay, director, music, edit, special effects, production
2007 Astons Stenar – screenplay, director, music, edit, special effects, production
2006 Desmond och Träskpatraskfällan (by Magnus Carlsson) – Studio director, consultant
2006 Tillväxtsjukan (by Klara Swantesson) – sound, edit, producer
2005 Bland Tistlar – screenplay, director, sound, music, edit, producer
2003 Kakan (by Pia Holmqvist) – edit, sound, music, producer
2002 När vi dör (by Håkan Wennström) – edit, sound, producer
2001 Kungliga Kalamiteter (by Ulla-Carin Grafström) – consultant
2000 Prinsen av Ponte corvo (by Ulla-Carin Grafström) – consultant
1996 Fågel Grå – (by Gun Jacobsson) sound, music, edit
1996 Aprikoser – screenplay, director, sound, music, edit, producer
1995 Snabeln & Elefanten – screenplay, director, sound, music, edit, producer
1992 Dammsugaren – music
1991 Vägen tillbaka (by Mikael Nilsson) – music
1990 Vinga på villovägar – music
1989 Triangeln (live action) – screenplay, director, music, edit, producer