-an educated sound technician
with focus on location sound recording
for film, TV and all moving picture
CURRENT PROJECTS AND NEWS
20240303 On UR play you can now stream the short 'Sire and the last summer', LINK HERE. Directed by Liselotte Wajstedt, shot by Lucia Pagano around Jukkasjärvi and by the lovely Vistas valley with its turquoise swirling river.
20240301 From the sixt of March The reality Utmaningen ( the challenge) is online on SVT. Check it out HERE! It was the biggest most challenging job during 2023, but a great experience with lovely cast and crew.
20240225 Working with a short film about meeting swedish christmas expectation written and directed by Arazo Arif. Lovely team, sad to only be on set for the whole shoot, but who can complain with Brenda El Reyes as A-sound!
20240202 Once again Till drömmarnas land, produced 2019 ( the unpromised land) is up on SVT Play. It is a feature film that I recorded by myself. A very important project where I really got to prove my self.
20240229 During the past weekend I attended Göteborgs FIlmfestival where the film i Recorded in Marocco in 2022 competed. We dit not win but it was a blast meeting up with collegues and taking part of interesting discussions.
20240101 Open for requests, preferably shorter projects and during summer I can take on longer projects.
Both sound- and scenography department is of interest.
20231010 Last weekend we shot the third film by Polly Blag, a series of, now, three films about a young girl growing up while meeting new challenges.
202309 Amazingly fine work this week at a semi big wood workshop doing all kinds of interior objects. Many cool machines and very nice team!
20230925 on my way home from a commercial shoot for ICA and the Swedish ski team (Skidlandslaget) in Östersund. All weathers were against us, rain, wind, sunshine, temperatures. But despite struggles I got pretty nice sound!
20230818 Next week Im off to Stockholm to do sports TV, Third time Im working on NHL media tour. I still have no clue about hockey, but I really enjoy these shoots.
20230715 Done with this summers big job, a competition reality for SVT. VERY intense work witha golden team and competition praticipants.
20230505 Spent some intense weeks working with Scenography !!! on Johannes Perssons short film Attentat.
very exciting as it is set in the 90s. And we had to do som period-magic, and hunt down some 90s treassures
20221217 The last work of the year took place in heavy trucks and buses, as we shot a informational film for the Swedish Transport Agency. The weather was on our side and provided a crisp sunny winter land.
20221203 Finally it is done! I am so curious! You can see the whole first episode of Dumpad here: www.youtube.com/dumpad
20221201 Today I spoke about my sound work at Umeå European Film festival. I spoke about the big variations between projects, the different, sometimes so weird challenges and the core of why i like it.
20221118 On the second of December the TV-series Dumpad has premiere on Discovery+, I recorded it together with Kalle Camnert, and this time I mostly was boom op, a great experience to almost totally focus on the boom.
20221105 I just got back from the shoot in Moroccos film centre Ouarzasate. It was very intense as we worked double shift night time because of the light. We shot at the worlds biggest solar station Noor and epic hollywood scenery.
20221029 Skellefteå is a growing city and is now releasing its campaign "Sorry Sweden". It was recorded in the begining of september, and the work was a delight. Prod by the very nice prod. team at Slutet är nära productions.
20220908 The Opera was awesome but I choosed to not continue, a hard decision. Im back at film and updates will follow here! I just got in an awesome job in Morocco!
20220901 Tonight the swedish TV-award Kristallen took place. Im very proud that Deg won best TV-drama. It is one of my absolute favourite productions that I have recorded. It was good from script, through shoot to final result.
20220610 Second season of the humor show Streams is now available on SVT play. The shoot was intense for me working almost solo, lots of extras, lots of intense improvisation. But we got the sound that we needed!
20220208 This year my hometown is celebrating a big anniversary and a part of that is the campaign "Umeå 400 years of nagging" is released. We shot the film in beautiful locations covered in new snow. Prod by Sand film.
20220101 New times! During the spring I am trying out a new thing. I am temping as the head of sound at Norrlandsoperan (the opera house in town) . Which means lots of work with mainly contemporary dance and the symphonic orchestra. However I will still be available as a soundie on shorter projects and longer in the future.
20211211 An intense week is done, first out I recorded a very skilled jazzband at a X-mas video shoot, I wrapped a TV-show and finally worked on a fantastic campaign film for Umeå Kommun. Prod. by Mattias and Henning at SAND film.
20211207 Today we finally wrapped the shoot of the TV production Nördar på stand by (geeks on standby), prod. by Salmonfox. Watch it now on SVT-play and see how different families are trying out new hobbies with actor Olle Sarri.
20211120 I got my sound education at the music and media campus In Piteå, Luleå technical University. Piteå Science Park has recently published a small interview with me, read it HERE.
20211030 Finally my gear bank has evolved big time! This time I invested in a 4 ch wisycom system, Audioroot powersupply, Sennheiser listening receivers and a bunch of small helpful gadgets. It is so so nice to work with!
20211028 Im in stockholm to record the second season of the comedy series Streams, with Lilla al Fadji as the main character. The project have really found a great team!
20211005 In february I went to Jokkmokk to record documentary parts for BBC-series Earthshot Prize, It is now airing on BBC and soon on Discovery plus. It is a project lead by David Attenborough and prince William of the UK.
20210922 Last week me and Henning Sandström, action photographer, filmed one of the worlds best hockey players and yesterday we filmed orienteering in the woods where director Jakob Arevärn joined us for a great day.
20210830 Today Deg/Dough finally had its premiere on SVT, Swedish national TV. Deg is an absolutely awesome TV-serie that I shot the autumn of 2020 in Stockholm. The story, the cast and the team... I love it all!
20210801 July ended with the most beautiful location in VIstasdalen, just by Kebnekajse, swedens highest mountain. We travelled there by boat, 5km on turquoise water. All thanks to filmmaker Liselotte Wajstedt's new project Sire.
20210815 During the last month Ive been working on several shortfilms, one about social media mobbing, one about a paranoid dad where one of the lead actors was only 2,5 years old and one about a65 year old man on rollerblade
20210607 On the 18th of june Amanda Kernells film Charter will air on SVT and then be accessible on SVTplay for one month, take the chance to see a beautiful film. We shot it in the beginning of 2019.
20210520 In May and June Im in Stockholm to record a TV-serie about a young woman with dreams and anxiety.
Its produced by Warner and the office is run by the same persons as those on Älska mig.
20210222 Now both season one and two of the very popular TV-serie Älska mig (Love me) by Josephine Bornebusch is available on SVTplay. I recorded both seasons in 2018 and 2019.
20210226 So this is what I did about one month ago! Brittish VOUGE has a video serie where they follow different celebrities into their home and get a glimpse of their everyday life, we filmed Zara Larson at her home in Stockholm.
20210224 Today Im driving up to Jokkmokk to spend some time with a bunch of raindeers working with a documentary peice for brittish BBC.
20210201 Im in stockholm to work with one of the biggest fashion magazines in the world and a popstar of the same caliber at least. Also doing some temping at a TV-serie shoot for SVT.
20201218 A week ago I finished my big project for SVT, prod Nexico. A TV serie of 8 episodes, with Bianca Kronlöf and Helena af Sandeborg as leading actors. Everything went smooth despite corona and no-one in the team even caught it!
20201103 Charter was elected as swedens Oscars contribution 2020!!! Congratulations to Amanda Kernell and the crew! Charter was the last feature film I worked on, the first one I did, The Unpromised Land is now on national TV, SVT.
20201015 The Swedish Oscar commitee has announced swedens contribution to this years Oscars. And it happens that I have been involved in two out of three! Charter and Greta, however the latter just briefly. But still!
20200831 Today I started the biggest project of 2020. A TV serie for SVT written and directed by Levan Akin among others. The story covers two women with quite different perspective going after the same stolen 47milj SEK cash.
20200818 The feature film Charter by amanda Kernell is nominated to the European Film Awards and also the Nordic Council’s film award. You can watch the film on iTunes and SF anytime.
20200813 The TV serie Älska mig is nominated in FOUR!! categories in 2020s Swedish TV Awards Kristallen. Best TV-programme, best TV-drama, best female actor and best male actor. The gala can be viewed online the 27 of august.
20200718 I just spent some days in stockholm recording a shortfilm with director Amanda Adele Björk. It is about a young woman handling psychic sickness and her troubled family. Lots of actor and action, lots of fun!
20200611 Today Im going up to Luleå and then onwards to Jokkmokk to shoot a commercial for Swedish grocery store ICA. Last time I worked in Jokkmokk it was -35°C and we recorded Amanda Kernells latest feature film Charter.
20200522 This week I have worked on a short film about an afghani woman going through a separation. It was great beeing back in Piteå which is the place where I spent five years during my sound technician education.
20200428 Im cruising through Sweden on the hunt for elite fotbollers stories, we stop by in Östersund, Örebro and Sölvesborg. Splendid team, sound provided by Redpipe Studios. Offcourse we work with corona precautions.
20200426 Tomorrow the second season of Rebecka Martinsson is premiering on Cmore. It is my biggest project so far, I have recorded both seasons. The first one in 2015 and this one a year ago during over 4 months up in beautiful Kiruna.
20200402 Screentime! Take the opportunity to see Älska mig (Love me) by Josephine Bornebusch on SVT starting the 10th of april, while waiting check out the short-short horror film @janabringlove also on SVT. Not for sensitive eyes!
20200327 The shortfilm "Vill mer" (Want more) that I recorded last summer premiered at the Swedish shortfilm festival last friday. And won the price for best manuscript! I couldn't agree more, it's effective, fun, and tells the story very well.
20200304 Im in Stockholm for an other unusual job. Im recording the sound for Bamse, a cartoon film. We are recording actors as a base for the animators over in Asia. Quite cool to create the visual fundament by sound.
20200215 The feature Charter, by Amanda Kernell (Sameblod/Sami blood) recently had its world premiere at Sundance filmfestival, the Swedish premiere was on GBGFF and its public premiere in sweden is the 13/3.
20200209 I am currently deviating slightly from my regular jobs as I am touring with a theatrepiece, performed in a real sauna in +70°C moist. Im doing stage tech + coordinating. See us somewhere between Mo i rana and Stockholm.
20200130 In january I did three shorter jobs, a fun commercial for Pensionsmyndigheten and a beautiful short film about nursing in Stockholm. In Umeå I joined TV-serie Tunna Blå Linjen produced for SVT, for some extra shots.
20200125 I finally managed to visit Göteborg Film festival. The most interesting were the seminar on economic tools to keep film production in Sweden and when Andrea Östlund interviewed artist and filmmaker Anna Odell.
200122 This monday I attended Guldbagge galan (swedish national film awards) togehter with some of the people behind Till Drömmarnas land (the Unpromised land, which I recorded 2016 and went up on cinema last year.
20191221 The last production for the year turned out to be a music video. But who needs a soundie then? Well, a bunch of rowdy privateers chanted a wild accapella in to my two MKH50 mics.
20191220 Finally wrapped up the shoot of the second season of Älska mig by Josephine Bornebush, a big thank you to my colleague and fellow soundie Lo Pettersson, our client Ljudbang and Warner who's behind the production.
1005 The feature The Unpromised land for which I was head of location sound will have it's Asian premiere on Tokyo international filmfestival starting the 28 of October. I wish I could be there. Go to Japan friends!
20190912 Preparations for the next big TVserie project is full on. This time it is season two of Josephine Bornebusch's relation/drama/comedy Älska mig (Love me). We start filming 23d of sept. and are done by Christmas.
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20190910 Visited VDB in Paris who makes very meticulously crafted boom poles. Their locking mechanism is reliable yet so simple its astonishing. Check them out!
20190825 Recorded a short film up in Luleå. The story is about a robbery gone wrong. We spend four days in a candy shop with a small and very effective team. Written and directed by Bo-Johan Sörensson.
20190720 VAYCAY!!!
20190710 After about 4.5 months up north in the Kiruna and Tornevalley area Im done with Rebecka Martinsson S2. It has been a true adventure with the greatest team and the most beautiful nature in a climate from -35 to +20°C.
20190401 Living environmental friendly has always been important to me, the same goes for my business. For instance I request sustainable food and try to be sustainable about gear as well as ways of traveling. If there even is some effort or time issue I'm gladly up for it. My hope is that production companies will join, appreciate and support this.
Read the Swedish filmworkers appeal here.
To support the appeal send your name and occupation to klimatuppropfilm@gmail.com
20190225 From now and a couple of months onward Im recording the sound of second season the crime-drama Rebecka Martinsson. We are shooting in the Kiruna/Torne area. The shoot of first season was a blast, glad to be back.
20190213 Watch the trailer of The unpromised land (Till drömmarnas land) here. It is up on cinemas nation wide the 22 of february.
20190128 Currently Im working on Amanda Kernells (Sameblod/Samiblood) next feature film. We are shooting way up north and degrees are falling down to around -30°C which is a challenge for all departments. Greatest team though!
0190116 Premiere nr3: On the same festival but 1/2 the feature Aniara based on Harry Martinssons writings has its premiere. I was just involved a couple of days but I have to mention it since its looking-good-SCI FI! Trailer here!
20190115 Premiere nr 2: On the same day and same festival, the first production i recorded abroad, in France, is premiering on Göteborgs filmfestival. Nära Mont Saint-Michel by Erik Lindeberg shot by Erik Vallsten. Beautiful!
20180110 Premiere boom!! Nr 1: 2016 i was in charge of sound for my first full feature film The Unpromised land, now it's premiering at Göteborg filmfestival 26/1. Directed by Victor Lindgren, interviewed here.
20181221 Done with recording the drama comedy Älska mig (love me). Intense and interesting. The storys depth really grew when the actors gave it life. Now Im of for holiday rest.
20180924 Done with a soundmixing project for Fanzingo that required quite a lot of noise reduction. Which is very fun and sometimes frustrating. Its also a balance between keeping natural sound and adding artifacts.
20180917 Dates are set for a huge project and Im super stoked. November to February you'll find me location mixing at the shoot of a Swedish TV-serie Älska mig by and with Josephine Bornebusch in Stockholm.
20180912 Back in Umeå for a while after a week of documentary shoot, improvisational relation drama and also a weekend as conference technician at the very experimental Music Tech Fest at KTH university.
20180901 Today we premiered the 30min documentary Mothers of Rinkeby at Folkets Bio Zita in stockholm and online. It turned out very beautiful and strong. Cinema X also showed some of their shorts.
20180820 During the recent past weeks Ive been doing a potpurri of very different projects. Ive done interviews with over 20 NHL players for American NBC, night shoot of Swedish humorshow and maximised Japaneese reality.
20180806 Last years big project was 7th season of the Swedish crime series Maria Wern. I did all location recording and ADR in post. Now its premiering on Cmore. Enjoy!
20180602 After being shown on several festival its time for 4032 soluppgångar / Birds In Space / پرندگان کهکشان on national TV 10 juli, 21:45, SVT2. Its a beauty, and yeah, sound recorded by me last year in Holmsund.
20180621 Today Im recording some episodes of the podcast Wag the dog, a pod about sport, motivation and talent.
Id say this goes beyond the usual sport discussions which makes it interesting even for a non-sport geek like me.
2018-06-08 During june I am finally again working up in the north. A small team, photo, reporter and sound doing ninja-run-and-gun reality.
20180424 More good news: We won a Peabody Award!!!! For the documentary The Cut, about female genital mutilation. Filmed by an amazing all women team during 2016-2017, produced by Aljazeera.
20180416 After intense and focused production work by director Victor Lindgren and the rest of the team behind the Bautafilm production "Den blomstertid nu kommer" has been baught by Swedish TV (SVT) which is just great!
20180413 Started filming a documentary episode about a group of Somali moms who try to keep the suburb Rinkeby calm and secure at night. Episode produced by greatest Fatma Naib for a serie about european suburbs by Aljazeera.
20180322 Torpederna which I and Robin Svensk from Ljudbang recorded about a year ago is now airing on Swedish TV4. At the same time I'm back in Stockholm to record some ADR and ambience voices for Maria Wern.
20180311 Shooting a commercial with Umeå squad (i.e. Snöby) in Stockholm. Today we went to a bodyflight tunnel with Lova who´s a flight enthusiast and for example is a member of the swedish national hot air baloon team.
20180307 Some jobs are bigger some smaller. Here's the final product of a really subtle one, I recorded ADR: breath, some really gental lines and distant voices. Part of SVTs anniversary thing of some Bergman-dude.
20180221 Yesterday I recorded a commercial with three dogs as main actors. Tomorrow Im doing an other for Get Raw who makes the most delicious vegan and organic snackbars. Directed and produced by the best: Isabel Savén.
20180211 Doing some days of additional shoots for sci-fi feature Aniara. Working with great team and colleague, hundreds of extras and with minimal amount of dialogue, so we have time to do some ambience recordings.
20180123 Today Im recording about 10 different sketches about the inconvenience of using glasses, yup. commercial. Next week Im touring with a theater. Edit, 10/2: First one of the sketches is already published! Check it out here !
20180110 January usually means time for administration and going through last years economics. Apparently I like it cause now I am also 'head of numbers' at the feministic film organisation Lynx Studios.
20171219 The last project of the year was a shoot for Svenska Spel and Elitidrottsstipendiet (The Elite Sport Grant).
We filmed three atlhetes within curling, fencing and swimming. Amazing team put together by Chimney.
20171214 December have so far been filled with a mixture of projects: info film for swedish health-site 1177, humor with UR and Massa Media, ADR-recording for Julkalendern and Maria Wern at Ljudbang.
20171115 For two days I recorded stories from the metoo hashtag. The production was a series of readings and interviews. Produced by Make Equal and Nattskiftet. I was not responsible of the post sound.
20171022 After in total, 14 weeks the shooting of the seventh season of TV-serie Maria Wern is done!! Im very greatfull to have been a part of the amazing teams and production. Im available for bookings onwards.
20171018 Radio show Kluvet Land (Divided Country) about the shut down diamond factory in Robertsfors that I visited during the shoot of "Diamondpeople" by Sara Jordenö. Some sound snippets from the film and an important subject.
20170902 Back on Gotland and the second shooting period of TV-serie Maria Wern. Today we did some finishing scenes belonging to what we shot in the first period. On monday it's main team and lots of nice collegues again.
20170804 Off to Stockholm and three different projects in five days! First out is three days with NHL media tour, then a short fiction film and last some fiction parts of a snowboard film.
20170704 Check out this cute commercial about family memories that I recorded in mars. Coordinated and shot by Martin Gärdemalm at Lampray.
20170701 The first shooting period of TV-serie Maria Wern, season seven, just finished.
Available for bookings until the 28th of august.
20170629 Today SVT published the film Meet me in Holmsund/Den blomstertid nu kommer which i recorded last summer. 16 min produced by Bautafilm and directed by Victor Lindgren. Click here to watch it!
20170614 Provided gear for the experimental short film Nikita Forever, recorded by Johannes at Oproduktion.
Produced by Bautafilm.
20170506 Last day of shooting The passage/ Passagen, starring Alexandra Rapaport, shot by dear friend Særún Hrafnkelsdottir Norén. Bye for now Stockholm.
20170427 All episodes of the TV-serie Rebecka Martinsson is now available on TV4-play and C-more. I recorded the first and the last story. Enjoy.
20170403 In Marsh I took a step sideways from sound to do smoke effects on a beautiful music video with musician Cajsa Siik. It was freezing cold. MTV Germany aproves.
20170313 Off to the north and Svanstein in Tornedalen to record a pilot documentary with snowboard pioneers Ingemar Backman and Johan Olofson about life after the pro career.
20170320 Recording sci-fi short film inspired by the two amateur actors flight from Afganistan. It all takes place on Jupiters moon.
20170220 I recorded a commercial for municipality of Nordmaling. The campaign is called Nordmaling problems, #nordmalingsproblem. Watch it here.
20170110 Recorded the swedish parts of upcoming reportage series about female genital mutilation produced by international TV-channel Aljazeera. To be aired in september.
20161215 Just finished the very intense period with Torpederna. Time for winter break, available for bookings… starting January...
20161001 In Stockholm to record 11 weeks of Torpederna, comedy-crime, starring Torkel Pettersson, Liv Mjönäs and Leo Razzak.
20160929: The film Trace Evidence by Susan Schuppli premieres at Umeå Bildmuseeum and the exhibition Perpetual uncertainty. Fascinating exhibition about nuclear power open until April.
The rest of 2016 and earlier projects are to be listed. Someday...
-an educated soundtechnician
with focus on location sound recording
for film, TV and all moving picture