Mantaray Film

MOVIE MAN (2021)

Stig Björkman is an 82-year-old Swedish director who has been locked up alone in his tiny apartment in Stockholm for a year due to Covid-19. To keep busy and connected he decides to contact through zoom (and film) his conversations with friends and colleagues: Isabella Rossellini, Alicia Vikander, Olivier Assayas and Joyce Carol Oates, to name a few, and to watch some of the greatest films in history which help visualize what we all are going through. Movie Man is a celebration of resilience, the human spirit, and film. And offers a new context to watch these wonderful films again and hopefully find comfort in them.

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Production

Director & Scriptwriter: Stina Gardell
Editor: Amalie Westerlin Tjellesen
Composer: Matti Bye
Songwriters: Eva Dahlgren, Lisa Ekdahl, Mathias Blomdahl
Director of Photography: Anders Bohman, Erik Vallsten
Sound technician: Jonas Goldmann
Sound design: Brian Dyrby & Kristoffer Salting 
Color grade: Mats Holmgren
Graphic Design: Martin Hultman
Head of Archive: Frida Neema Järnbert
Producer: Stina Gardell

Feature length: 82 minutes
Screening format: DCP/ProRes
Languages: English, Danish, Italian
Release: 5th of May 2021
Press & PR-ansvarig: ylva@cinemasweden.com

Developed with the support of The Creative Europe Programe - MEDIA of the European Union, The Swedish Film Institute. In co-production with SVT K-Special.

Presscoverage

DN - Karantänfilmen "Corona film club" slår upp ett fönster mot filmkonsten
Nöjesguiden - Recension Corona Film Club
SR Kulturnytt P1 - Bjöd in till filmklubb med Hollywoods storheter