Lennart Ström is co-owner of the production company Auto Images in Malmö, Sweden. Trained as a Media Teacher at Dramatiska Institutet, Lennart has taught film and theatre to children and young people in the suburbs of Malmö for over 15 years and written and directed several theatre plays for young people. He founded Malmö Mediaworkshop 1990 and the Regional resource center, Film i Skåne in 1995. Lennart was active in BUFF Filmfestival between 1986 and 2008, one of Europes largest festivals for children’s film and was Festival Director between 1999-2008. Lennart has produced an number of films: Harbour of Hope (2011) Long Distance Love (2008) short fiction My Uncle Loved the Colour Yellow (2008) which was awarded at the Berlinale in 2008. Among the features he’s produced are Doxa by Laif Magnusson (2005) and the Danish family film Little Big Girl/Tinke (2001). He co-produced the Danish documentary Armadillo (2010), Cannes Critics Prize winner in 2010, the Norwegian animation Last Troll of Norway (2010), the Finnish documentary The Punk Syndrome (2012) about a punk band of developmentally disabled men, winner of an Audience Award at SXSW and Norwegian doc Bravhearts/Til Ungdommen (2012), a documentary following the lives and thinking of four politically active young Norwegians before and after the massacre on Utøya Island that had its international premiere at IDFA and theatrical release throughout Scandinavia.
Sweden