Growing up in Stockholm, Sweden, I was a pretty hyperactive kid with a very big imagination. You’d either find me running around outside with a kitchen pan on my head, ski pads on my knees, a hockey stick in my hand, and a blanket around my neck pretending to be a knight - which honestly happened a lot - or I’d be sitting somewhere drawing whatever I was obsessed with at the time.
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Then one day after school, very impulsively, I decided I wanted to make a short film with my brother as the actor. He didn’t want to, but he didn’t really have a choice because, well, he was my little brother.

We shot it on an old Sony Ericsson phone that had this neat play/pause feature. You’d shoot a scene, hit pause, then do the next one. If you messed something up, you had to start the entire film over again. It was fun. It was risky. When we finally watched the finished film, it was the worst crap ever. In fact, it was so bad that my severely overpaid lead actor dropped out of the project shortly after.
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But I didn’t give up. I wanted it to look like the movies I was watching at the cinema or on DVD. So I became obsessed. I started learning through YouTube tutorials, watching other filmmakers and directors. I got really deep into VFX and CGI, spending way too many hours teaching myself how to create muzzle flashes, key green screens, and making things explode that definitely shouldn’t have been exploding...

During my teens, I started making school party promos with different themes; space, James Bond, Tarantino - you name it. They became my excuse to make short films inspired by the movies I loved. The kid who used to sit around drawing all day was suddenly storyboarding shots, planning scenes, and pushing each film a little further than the last. They’d get shown in the auditorium, crowds would cheer, and suddenly people actually wanted to be in the films I was making.

I don’t really know what it was exactly, but I loved seeing people react to something I had made.
And as I got older, I just kept making films.
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Fast forward to today, and I’ve directed and shot work for artists like Swedish House Mafia, directed TV spots, and made short films. My latest short, Replay, was recently shortlisted for the Young Director Award in Cannes and is currently making its way around festivals.

I’m still chasing the dream of directing feature films one day, so thank you to my little brother for being my first actor.
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As of 2025, I’m represented as a director by Slutet.com in Scandinavia.