Sissel Morell Dargis

Sissel Morell Dargis is known for Balomania (2024), Plastico (2017) and Cai Cai Balão (2020). ith a background in graffiti, Sissel Morell Dargis began taking pictures of the art that she and her friends were doing. This would become the beginning to her first documentary film, about her way into the illegal balloon gang culture in Brazil. In parallel, Sissel and her friends co-founded, in one of the largest favelas, a community project focusing on cultural exchange between locals in the favela and outsiders. To finish the film she had started, she went to Cuba to study documentary at the International School of Film and Television (EICTV). Her graduation short film, Plástico, premiered across the world and became the basis of her next film, currently in development. Sissel recently finished her feature documentary about the gangs in Brazil, which will premiere this fall. In collaboration with the Danish Film School in the Games and Animation degree, she directed the documentary game Cai Cai Balão, which was nominated at the Independent Games Festival (IGF) and IndieCade and exhibited at the Smithsonian Arts Museum.