Swedish muscle

Mikael MarcimainDirector Swedish TV and advertisements director Marcimain is making his lengthy-looked forward to feature debut with "Call Girl," a political thriller occur the late seventies, starring Pernilla August, looking for release in 2012. He earned his title using the acclaimed miniseries "The Laser Guy" and "How Quickly Has Become?,Inch a drama of Swedish youth in revolt throughout the turbulent era of 1965-76. He's noted for his collaboration with Nederlander cinemato-grapher Hoyte van Hoytema, who also labored with Tomas Alfredson on "Let the correct one In" and "Mess, Tailor, Soldier, Spy," with David O. Russell on "The Fighter."Karzan KaderWriter-directorKadar's family found Sweden from Kurdistan when he was 8, to flee the 1990 Iraq War. "Bekas," his graduation short in the Stockholm film school, required a silver medal in the Student Oscars this season, and won a prize in the Palm Springs Shorts Fest. Kader has become growing the storyline into feature for Sonet Film. "Bekas" is all about two siblings living in the pub in Kurdistan, who envision a daring plan to get at America, that they think is simply over the border. Shooting in spring was interrupted through the Arab uprisings, however the cameras are actually moving again.Bill SkarsgardActor The most recent within the acting empire -- 4th boy of Stellan, brother of Alexander and Gustaf -- 21-year-old Bill Skarsgard is on his method to being a major Swedish star. Showing up alongside his father in crusader epic "Arn: The Dominion at Road's Finish" convinced him he desired to follow in the household business, however it was his title role in "Simple Simon," Sweden's 2010 submission for that foreign-language film Oscar, which made their own title. His latest role may be the lead within the The Second World War epic "Simon and also the Trees," with different classic Swedish bestseller in regards to a boy who befriends a Jewish refugee.Lisa AschanWriter-director Once the Swedish Film Institute released its Rookie enter in 2009 to finance low-budget films by debut company directors, the candidates were extremely male. Therefore it made the decision that only women could be considered for that fifth and final Rookie project. That brought to picking a Aschan's "She Apes," around three teenage women who perform horseback gymnastics. Pic opened to acclaim at Berlin this season and won narrative feature at Tribeca. Despite its arthouse style, Aschan, who trained in the Danish Film School, describes "She Apes" like a Western, and it is next planning for a horror project.Babak NajafiWriter-directorBorn in Iran, Najafi gone to live in Sweden like a boy within the mid-eighties. He trained like a documentary director, and won the Stockholm festival's 1 km film scholarship in 1999 for his debut short "Rasten." After several shorts, he earned his feature debut this year using the drama "Sebbe," in regards to a single mom and her boy living on the tough working-class estate. Pic won the debut prize at Berlin, then best film at Sweden's Guldbagge honours. Inside a sharp change to some more commercial direction, he's now finishing "Fast Money 2," the follow up towards the 2010 hit crime thriller.Malin BuskaActress With just a few previous shorts on her behalf film resume, 27-year-old stage actress Buska would be a thought in Bjorn Runge's slice of Swedish miserabilism "Happy Finish." Experts talked about her performance like a cleaner who's beaten by her boyfriend, but whose existence changes whenever a troubled youthful artist asks to fresh paint her. Even though film went largely unseen through the having to pay public, the role has put her firmly around the industry's radar like a star within the making.Patrik AnderssonProducer Andersson started his career in a variety of marketing and distribution roles at Nordisk, Sandrew Metronome, the Swedish Film Institute and also the Stockholm Intl Film Festival. He was headhunted by St. Paul Film to maneuver across into production as mind of development, where he's accumulating the slate. He's also creating author-director Lisa Langseth's sophomore drama "Hotel," following her Guldbagge script win on her debut "Pure."Gabriela PichlerWriter-director After film school in Gothenburg, Gabriela Pichler won for brief in the 2009 Guldbagge honours on her graduation film "Scratches," that also required fest awards at Munich, Karlovy Vary and Uppsala. Her feature debut, "Eat Sleep Die," has become in publish-production. Written and directed by Pichler for Anagram Prods., it is the story of the youthful woman's battle to remain in her home village following the closure from the local factory makes everybody redundant. Pichler brings a powerful storytelling instinct towards the arty, political style connected with Gothenburg filmmakers.Liv MjonesActress After numerous stage and television roles, such as the SVT series "Bibliotekstjuven," 32-year-old actress Mjones made her feature breakthrough this season using the lead in lesbian romance "With Every Heartbeat" (also known as "Kyss mig") directed by Alexandra-Therese Keining. She adopted by using "Stockholm East," launched in October, and she'll be found with a more mainstream audience the coming year in spy thriller "Within the Nation's Interest," the most recent installment within the Carl Hamilton franchise, Sweden's response to Mission Impossible.Erika Wasserman & Jesper KurlandskyProducers "Avalon," the 2nd feature created by Wasserman and Kurlandsky under their Fasad shingle, won the worldwide experts discovery award at Toronto because of its debut director Axel Petersen. Kurlandsky learned the ropes included in Lukas Moodysson's team on "Mammoth," "Container," "Lilya-4-ever" and "An Opening during my Heart," with a number of credits including cinematographer, casting director and art director. Now he and Wasserman, an old publicist, are carefully connected with taking care of Sweden's new wave of arthouse filmmakers. Kurlandsky is next creating "Blondie," his second film with director Jesper Gandslandt, while Wasserman focusing on her second project with Henrik Hellstrom, "Hollows."STOCKHOLM Worldwide FILM FESTIVAL Scandis fund femme visions Business matters Swedish muscle Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com