NEA
ASPHÄLl FSF
CINEMATOGRAPHER
Nea Asphäll FSF is a Swedish cinematographer with twenty years of professional experience in film and television. She is educated at the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts, and her career has evolved through hands-on work in the camera department, where she built a strong foundation as a camera assistant and operator across feature films, television series, and short-form projects, including commercial work both in Sweden and internationally.
An early defining milestone was her short thesis film Get Ready with Me, which marked the beginning of an ongoing creative collaboration with director Jonatan Etzler. The film received a Student Academy Award (Oscar™) for Best Foreign Film in 2018 and led to an IMAGO International Award nomination for Best Cinematography (Student Film) in 2019. Her work on the short film Freak was later awarded Best Cinematography at the STOCKmotion Film Festival.
Nea made her feature debut as Director of Photography with Sune – Mission: Midsummer (Sune Uppdrag: Midsommar), directed by Erland Beskow, which was nominated for Best Film at the Bucharest Best Comedy Film Festival in 2021. This was followed by So Damn Easy Going (Så jävla easy going), directed by Christoffer Sandler, which received wide international recognition, including nominations at the Gothenburg Film Festival (Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film) and the Seattle International Film Festival (Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature), and winning the Q Movie Award at Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival.
Her recent television work includes the Netflix series The Åre Murders, which reached an audience of 33 million viewers globally on Netflix. Nea is currently working on the second season of the series, continuing her collaboration with the same director, Joakim Eliasson. Additional television credits include the long-running Swedish crime series Mother Goose (Gåsmamman), also directed by Eliasson. She also reunites with Jonatan Etzler on the Pulse Films feature Bad Apples, starring Saoirse Ronan, following their earlier collaboration on the Netflix romantic dramedy One More Time.
Nea’s visual approach is driven by curiosity, movement, and a strong sense of place. She is drawn to working in new environments around the world and to translating location and atmosphere into cinematic storytelling—whether through handheld work dancing with the actors or carefully composed, slow-moving shots combined with zoom. She values an open, collaborative process and enjoys discovering how each project evolves together with the director and the wider creative team.
She is fluent in Swedish and English and has a strong understanding of Norwegian and Danish. Nea is a member of the Swedish Society of Cinematographers (Föreningen Sveriges Filmfotografer) and is based between Gothenburg and Stockholm, working internationally.
She is represented by Art Official Agency in Scandinavia
and Iconic Talent Agency in US/UK/EU.