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Urban Ström — Director credit map
Public sources, your own recall, your two mailboxes, your own YouTube channel, your ProRes masters archives, and your own account of your background.
195 professional credits, 1992 → 2024 (plus 3 home/personal films and 9 background entries, listed separately and not counted).
| Tier | Meaning |
|---|---|
confirmed | a third-party published source names you |
email | contemporaneous email in your own mailbox |
master | the delivered film file itself, in your own masters archive |
stated | your own recall, your site, your own YouTube uploads, or your own background |
dated | year sourced to a release; direction credit index-only |
unverified | index-only, no year found |
⭐ 1994–1997: SVT Sundsvall and the 16mm camera
This is the keystone of the whole record. At SVT Sundsvall you were an editor, graphic designer and cameraman — and you directed music videos while you were there, not after. You shot them on the station’s 16mm camera and edited them yourself, unpaid, for your own fun.
Why that explains the biggest hole in the record: 1992–2003 is the blank in every database — no IMVDb entries, nothing on IMDb before 1997, no producer, no invoice. That is exactly what unpaid personal work made with an employer’s equipment looks like. There was never a budget line, a contract or a production company to leave a trace. The films are real and finished; the paperwork never existed.
Four things it unlocks:
- You had the craft in-house. Read ‘Director’ on the sixteen overlapping rows as director + camera + edit — you were almost certainly your own cameraman and your own editor.
- Shooting 16mm in 1995–97 means real film — stock, processing, telecine — a different discipline from the later DV and ProRes era, and only possible because the camera and the edit suite were in your day job.
- It is the origin of your later profile. ‘Director, VFX Artist & Editor’ / ‘Visual Effects Artist & Editor’ on your own site and YunoJuno starts at a regional station in Sundsvall, not in London.
- It explains the northern bias. Of the sixteen overlapping videos we can place, nearly all sit within reach of Sundsvall: The Confusions (Sundsvall), Komeda and Honeymoons (Umeå), Bear Quartet and Garp (Skellefteå).
And it closes the circle with your YouTube channel
The 4K remasters you have been posting are your own transfers of those 16mm originals — The Bear Quartet ‘Hrnn Hrnn’ (1992), Garp - Träden Viskar Ditt Namn, Ray Wonder ×2, Cloudberry Jam, Heed ‘Seldom Seen’, User ‘Do You’, Ana ‘Life’. The films made on SVT Sundsvall’s camera for no money are the same films you are restoring today.
The sixteen videos that overlap
| Year | Video | Act from |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Cloudberry Jam – ‘Twice as Cool’ | Skellefteå / Umeå |
| 1995 | Garp – ‘Träden viskar ditt namn’ (music video) | Skellefteå (Studio KN) |
| 1995 | Shredhead – ‘Dork’ | Sweden |
| 1995 | The Confusions – ‘At the Brickhouse’ | Sundsvall |
| 1995 | Vadå – ‘Trams’ | Sweden |
| 1996 | Cloudberry Jam – ‘Another Moment Follows’ | Skellefteå / Umeå |
| 1996 | Daybehavior – ‘Cinematic’ | Sweden |
| 1996 | Daybehavior – ‘Hello’ | Sweden |
| 1996 | Dublin Fair – ‘Jamboree’ | — |
| 1996 | Ray Wonder – ‘Hang Me High’ | Sweden |
| 1996 | Ray Wonder – ‘I Love But You’ | Sweden |
| 1996 | The Confusions – ‘All Dressed Up’ | Sundsvall |
| 1997 | Cloudberry Jam – ‘Day After Day’ | Skellefteå / Umeå |
| 1997 | Cloudberry Jam – ‘Out of Control’ | Skellefteå / Umeå |
| 1997 | Honeymoons – ‘Fabrications’ | Umeå |
| 1997 | Komeda – ‘Rocket Plane (Music on the Moon)‘ | Umeå |
⚠️ The overlap is understated, not overstated. Those years are song release years, not shoot years — a video for a 1995 single was likely shot in 1994–95. The parallel running probably begins in 1994, not 1995.
SVT Sundsvall was a full SVT district, not a transmitter: it produced Mittnytt, the regional news programme for Västernorrland and Jämtland (on air 1 October 1973 → 12 April 2015, from Sundsvall), and it is where SVT concentrated its nature programming, alongside studio output such as Röda Rummet and Studio pop. Your period starts the year Gävledala split off from Mittnytt (10 January 1994).
The full early arc
| Year | What you were doing | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 1986–87 | Kommunikation och media | Anderstorpsskolan, Skellefteå |
| 1989–90 | Drama, teater, film | Umeå universitet |
| 1990–91 | Video- och teveproduktion | Kalix folkhögskola |
| 1992 | First credits: The Bear Quartet, Garp, Cloudberry Jam, Daybehavior | Skellefteå / Umeå |
| 1994–1997 | SVT Sundsvall — editor, graphics, camera · 16mm camera used for unpaid personal promos, shot and cut by you | Sundsvall + the north |
| 1997–2000 | Honeymoons, Komeda, Heed, Feven, Jessica Folcker, Awa Manneh | Sweden |
| 1999–≈2000 | Christian Falk (1999) · Wettex ‘50 år’ (1999) · Wedins Skor (≈2000) | Sweden |
| ≈2002→ | London — Flynn, then the UK pop era (Cheeky Girls, S Club 8, Gareth Gates, Shapeshifters) | London |
Where to look: Svensk mediedatabas (smdb.kb.se) — free, programme-level. SVT’s public-service reports (omoss.svt.se; 1997 and 1998 cover your years). Norran / Sundsvalls Tidning. As an editor/graphics/camera staffer, station equipment logs, staff rosters, Mittnytt end-credits and internal production records are where your name plausibly appears.
🎓 Background & education — Skelleftehamn, Västerbotten
| Year | Age | Stage | School / place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 0 | Född / Born | Skelleftehamn, Västerbotten |
| 1974–1977 | 7–10 | Lågstadiet (åk 1–3) | Skelleftehamn |
| 1977–1980 | 10–13 | Mellanstadiet (åk 4–6) | Skelleftehamn |
| 1980–1983 | 13–16 | Högstadiet (åk 7–9) | Bruksskolan, Ursviken |
| 1983–1986 | 16–19 | Ekonomisk linje (3 år) | Anderstorpsskolan, Skellefteå |
| 1986–1987 | 19–20 | Kommunikation och media (1 år) | Anderstorpsskolan, Skellefteå |
| 1987–1988 | 20–21 | Militärtjänst / värnplikt | Sverige |
| 1989–1990 | 22–23 | Drama, teater, film (1 år) | Umeå universitet |
| 1990–1991 | 23–24 | Video- och teveproduktion (1 år) | Kalix folkhögskola |
⭐ Skellefteå — answered by context
| Search | Result |
|---|---|
| Email — SVT Sundsvall, Sundsvalls | 0 hits |
| Email — Scenografiskolan | 0 hits |
| Email — Lokal TV / lokaltv | 0 hits |
| Email — Skellefteå | ~250 hits, but personal |
| Web — “Urban Ström” + Skellefteå | no credit; the Skellefteå Urban Ströms online are different people |
Why the email could never answer it: your mailbox floor is 18 December 2006. And the context now supports all of it — born Skelleftehamn, schooled in Ursviken and Skellefteå, trained at Umeå and Kalix, editor/graphics/camera at SVT Sundsvall 1994–1997. Those institutions were local to you.
Nordiska Scenografiskolan, Skellefteå — opened autumn 1987 at Nordanå; theatre scenography only until 1989, when a TV-scenografi track began; a two-year ‘Production design’ course from 1991. Sweden’s first computer-graphics education started there in 1993 — a striking parallel, given you were doing graphic design at SVT Sundsvall in the same years. Founder Tage Martin Hörling. LTU from 2005; Edelviks folkhögskola 2022. No public alumni register.
Skellefteå evidence that does exist: Studio KN, Skellefteå recorded Penny Century (1992) and the Garp CD you designed (1995); Tambourine Songs published both; A West Side Fabrication was Skellefteå-based.
⭐ Dating the commercials — and the archive that would finish it
tvcheck.se — “several hundred thousand nationally-aired commercials from 1991 onwards”, Sweden, Norway and Finland. Search requires a paid account (12 months, 5 user accounts). Pre-2002 only from their analog tape archive.
→ The practical route: an old house — Otto Film, Rawfilm, Mekaniken, Nice + Polite, Infinity, Havas — almost certainly held a TVCheck account.
| Year | Credit | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | CARTOON NETWORK – idents | Cartoon Network UK idents tied to Ben 10 (2005–), Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends (2004) and My Gym Partner’s a Monkey (2006) — placing this ident package **≈2005–2006… |
| 2006 | ’Ben 10’ ident | Cartoon Network UK idents tied to Ben 10 (2005–), Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends (2004) and My Gym Partner’s a Monkey (2006) — placing this ident package **≈2005–2006… |
| 2006 | ’Fosters’ ident | Cartoon Network UK idents tied to Ben 10 (2005–), Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends (2004) and My Gym Partner’s a Monkey (2006) — placing this ident package **≈2005–2006… |
| 2006 | ’Half Term’ ident | Cartoon Network UK idents tied to Ben 10 (2005–), Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends (2004) and My Gym Partner’s a Monkey (2006) — placing this ident package **≈2005–2006… |
| 2006 | ’My Gym Partner’ ident | Cartoon Network UK idents tied to Ben 10 (2005–), Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends (2004) and My Gym Partner’s a Monkey (2006) — placing this ident package **≈2005–2006… |
| 2005 | TVC | Il Divo’s debut album was released Nov 2004 and the first videos date 2004–2005 — so this TVC is ≈2004–2005.… |
| 2012 | ’Home Again’ TVC (40s) | Michael Kiwanuka’s Home Again album (2012) — the spot is an album-promo TVC (‘Out Now’).… |
| 2004–2010 | ’Familjen Ström’ | Telia’s family ad series ran January 2004 – December 2010 (90 films; SVT/Sv. Wikipedia ‘Telia-reklamen’). Concept by Martin Marklund, Enis Püpülek & Petrus Kukulski; later films mad… |
| 2000 | ’Ny Loggo’ | Wedins Skor hired Leo Burnett Stockholm around 1999–2000; Dagens Media (9 Nov 2000) records Wedins winning best popular-press campaign. Lürzer’s Archive also holds the Leo Burne… |
| 1999 | ’50 år’ | Wettex was invented in 1949 (Curt Lindquist, Celloplast, Norrköping) — so a ‘50 år’ anniversary spot is 1999. Inferred from the brand’s founding, not from a broadcast record… |
| 2005 | ’Live In London’ HMV | Will Young’s Live in London was recorded at Wembley Arena on 21 Dec 2004 and released 21 March 2005 (Official Charts first chart date 02/04/2005) — so this HMV retail film… |
20 of the 66 commercials & brand films remain n.d. — Dole, Mercedes ×3, Volkswagen ×2, Maku, Ericsson, Q Fort ×4, StingPlay, the Wasa family, Finnet 999, Nokia/NAVTEQ ‘Ads on Maps’, Tiimari, Shonagh Daly’s TVC, SportOn, Montblanc ‘Katherine’, Golden Cap, GE Money. An advertisement has no release date — a record leaves chart entries; a TV spot leaves only a broadcast log.
⭐ Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes) — 92 files, 54 GB
60 files matched existing rows; the rest produced 27 new rows.
| Year | Client | Spot |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Wettex | ’50 år’ |
| 2000 | Stockholms Filmfestival | festival ident |
| 2000 | Wedina Skor | ’Ny Loggo’ |
| 2004–2010 | Telia | ’Familjen Ström’ |
| 2005 | Il Divo | TVC |
| 2005 | Will Young | ’Live In London’ HMV |
| 2006 | Cartoon Network | ’Ben 10’ ident |
| 2006 | Cartoon Network | ’Fosters’ ident |
| 2006 | Cartoon Network | ’Half Term’ ident |
| 2006 | Cartoon Network | ’My Gym Partner’ ident |
| 2012 | Michael Kiwanuka | ’Home Again’ TVC (40s) |
| n.d. | Nokia / NAVTEQ | NAVTEQ |
| n.d. | Dole | ’Bananer’ |
| n.d. | Ericsson | ’Lego’ |
| n.d. | Finnet 999 (FI) | ‘Puhelu Ystävälle’ |
| n.d. | Maku | ’ENG’ |
| n.d. | Mercedes-Benz | ’Vinn en’ films 1–3 |
| n.d. | Nokia | BH-505 |
| n.d. | Nokia | BH-905i |
| n.d. | Nokia | Long Film |
| n.d. | Shonagh Daly | ’Beautiful View’ album TVC |
| n.d. | StingPlay | company presentation |
| n.d. | Volkswagen (SE) | ‘Hyr en Beetle’ |
| n.d. | Volkswagen (SE) | ‘www’ |
| n.d. | Wasa (SE/FI) | commercials |
| n.d. | Wasa (SE/FI) | ‘Ad Break’ 1 / 2A / 2B |
| n.d. | Wasa (SE/FI) | ‘Sugar’ |
Corroborated: Valio’s FIN/SVE director’s cuts · Q Fort as four finished spots · the full Wasa family with audio stems · four named Cartoon Network idents · Nokia’s product ladder incl. a 14 GB Gear Long Film.
⭐ Masters - Music Video (ProRes) — 110 files, 294 GB
57 matched existing rows; the rest produced 40 rows: 37 professional credits — all dated — and 3 home films (16 of the dated ones are the 16mm SVT-era films).
| Year | Artist | Title | Probe used to date it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Vadå | ’Trams’ | Vadå, 1995 — Swedish, fits the 1995–97 northern era. ⬅ CONCURRENT with SVT Sundsvall (1994–1997) — subje… |
| 1996 | Dublin Fair | ’Jamboree’ | Single 1996 (on Mr Music Hits 9-96). ⬅ CONCURRENT with SVT Sundsvall (1994–1997) — subject-confirmed: … |
| 1997 | Cloudberry Jam | ’Out of Control’ | On The Impossible Shuffle, 21 Nov 1997. ⬅ CONCURRENT with SVT Sundsvall (1994–1997) — subject-confirme… |
| 1999 | Christian Falk | ’Make It Right’ | On Christian Falk’s album Quel Bordel (1999).… |
| 2001 | Kinnda | ’Freak You Out’ | Swedish artist on Telegram Records Stockholm; ‘Freak You Out’ reached No. 12 in Sweden.… |
| 2001 | Kinnda | ’Lovestruck’ | Same Telegram Records Stockholm single/album pairing as ‘Freak You Out’.… |
| 2002 | Cheeky Girls | ’Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)‘ | Single 2002.… |
| 2002 | Gareth Gates | ’Suspicious Minds’ | Double A-side ‘Suspicious Minds’ / ‘The Long and Winding Road’ with Will Young, 2002 — a UK No. 1.… |
| 2003 | Cheeky Girls | ’Have a Cheeky Christmas’ | Single 2003.… |
| 2003 | Cheeky Girls | ’Hooray Hooray (It’s a Cheeky Holiday)‘ | Single 2003.… |
| 2003 | S Club 8 | ’Don’t Tell Me You’re Sorry’ | Single 2003, from Sundown.… |
| 2003 | S Club 8 | ’Sundown’ | Single 2003.… |
| 2003 | Supernatural | ’Supernatural’ | Swedish girl group, years active 2002–2004 (Mathilda Carmbrant, Linda Erik…). ⚠️ MusicBrainz’s 1994 … |
| 2003 | Tantalize | ’Body Rockin’ | On Smash! Hits Chart, Summer 2003.… |
| 2004 | All Eyes | ’She’s a Vision’ | Official Charts first chart date 13 Nov 2004; released on the Specsavers label (CXSPECS1) as a chari… |
| 2004 | I Dream | ’Dreaming’ | Tied to the UK TV series I Dream (2004).… |
| 2004 | Shonagh Daly | ’All I Want’ | From Beautiful View (2004). ARCHIVE: the ‘Beautiful View’ album TVC is also held.… |
| 2005 | Amy Diamond | ’What’s in It for Me’ | Single 2005 (on the Swedish Absolute Music 50).… |
| 2005 | El Presidente | ’Rocket’ | On the album El Presidente (2005).… |
| 2005 | G4 | ’When a Child Is Born’ | On G4 & Friends, 28 Nov 2005.… |
| 2006 | Dario G | ’Ring of Fire’ | Single 2006.… |
| 2006 | Everlife | ’Real Wild Child’ | From the Disney ‘The Wild’ soundtrack, 11 Apr 2006.… |
| 2006 | Laila | ’Glitter’ | Laila Adèle’s own site lists ‘Glitter’ (Video) 2006. She is a Swedish soul singer (‘Lill Aretha’).… |
| 2006 | Sandi Thom | ’Lonely Girl’ (+ director’s cut) | From Smile… It Confuses People (2006).… |
| 2006 | Shapeshifters | ’Sensitivity’ | Single 2006.… |
| 2006 | Shawn Emanuel | ’U Better Believe It’ | Single 2006.… |
| 2007 | All Angels | ’Blowin’ in the Wind’ | All Angels’ second album Into Paradise, released 26 Nov 2007 (MusicBrainz’s 2010 date is a compilation… |
| 2007 | All Angels | ’Come Away with Me’ | Into Paradise, 26 Nov 2007 (Norah Jones cover).… |
| 2007 | All Angels | ’I’ll Fly Away’ | All Angels era (debut 2006, Into Paradise 2007, Fly Away 2010); per-track date not sourceable.… |
| 2007 | All Angels | TVCs (3 versions) | Campaign set delivered with the 2007 All Angels masters. All Angels: UK classical group, debut 2006, *Into P… |
| 2007 | Vei Wei | ’Go-Girl-Go’ | Wei Wei (Chinese pop star, ‘The Empress of Pop’) with FC Barcelona’s Messi, Deco, Márquez and Puyol … |
| 2009 | Sharam | ’She Came Along’ (+ remix) | Single 2009.… |
| 2013 | Sam Smith | ’Money on My Mind’ (lyric video) | —… |
| 2014 | Alistair Griffin & Kimberley Walsh | ’The Road’ | The official song of the 2014 Tour de France Grand Départ in Yorkshire; CD released 29 Jun 2014. Kimberl… |
| 2014 | Disney | ’The Pirate Fairy’ | Film released 1 Apr 2014; your master filename reads ‘Fri 6 Jun’ = Friday 6 June 2014.… |
| 2015 | Meja | ’Yellow Ribbon’ | Written with Nicolas & Alessandra Gunthardt, released 2015 with **Amnesty International / Free the Angol… |
| 2018 | Max George | ’Barcelona’ | —… |
Headline finds: Sam Smith – ‘Money on My Mind’ (2013) · Wei Wei with Messi, Deco, Puyol and Márquez — official song of the 2007 FIFA Women’s World Cup · Alistair Griffin & Kimberley Walsh – ‘The Road’ — official song of the 2014 Tour de France Grand Départ in Yorkshire · Gareth Gates’ 2002 No. 1 with Will Young · All Angels (2007) · Cheeky Girls ×3 · S Club 8 ×2 · Shapeshifters · Dario G · G4 · I Dream · Everlife · El Presidente · Tantalize · Shonagh Daly · Shawn Emanuel · Sharam · Laila · All Eyes · Disney – The Pirate Fairy (2014) · Max George (2018).
★ Home / personal films — not professional credits
| Year | Title | Note |
|---|---|---|
| n.d. | Erik Gadd – ‘Live at Etage’ | home film — Etage, Skellefteå (Wannadies / Erik Gadd); personal |
| 1992 | Nina – ‘I Will Know’ | home film — dated 1992, same year as The Bear Quartet ‘Hrnn Hrnn’ |
| n.d. | The Wannadies – ‘Live at Etage’ | home film — Etage, Skellefteå (Wannadies / Erik Gadd); personal |
⭐ Your own YouTube channel is a self-curated filmography
youtube.com/channel/UCBo4z1SWIzjXOkCOw4_a0DQ — 15 uploads; independently confirms 1992; the 4K remasters are your transfers of the 16mm originals.
Popfakta / Svenskt Rockarkiv — the one archival credit
The Garp CD Träden viskar ditt namn (1995, Buffel, Buf.S 09) — Foto: Urban Ström and Omslagsdesign, consistent with the designer half of your SVT role. Recorded at Studio KN, Skellefteå by Kjell Nästén; published by Tambourine Songs.
Otto Film, Helsinki — 2007–2014
Producer Risto Nikkilä. Corroborated by your Nokia Purity post, the Cyber service-production page, the email ‘Valio Vanilla EDL’S (OTTO FILM)’, and the Valio/Nokia masters themselves.
| Year | Work | Client |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | VALIO Vanilla | Valio (FI) |
| 2007 | VALIO Gefilus – Umbrella / Clocks | Valio (FI) |
| 2007 | GOLDEN CAP — script & treatment | Golden Cap |
| 2007 | GE MONEY — storyboard | GE Money |
| 2008 | Tiimari — animatics (Finland) | Tiimari (FI) |
| 2009 | Saunalahti — ‘KENNEDY’ treatment | Saunalahti (Elisa, FI) |
| 2010 | Nokia ‘Twiggy’ | Nokia |
| 2011 | NOKIA Purity headphones – ‘Dancer’ & ‘HD Rocker’ | Nokia |
| 2011 | NOKIA Gear, Belgrade pt.2 – ‘Luna’ / ‘Scallop’ / ‘Essence’ | Nokia |
| 2011 | NOKIA – ‘Squid’ / ‘Master’ | Nokia |
| 2011 | Nokia Gear Pulse1 | Nokia |
| 2011 | Nokia J — video | Nokia |
| 2011 | Nokia ‘Inari’ film | Nokia |
| 2012 | NOKIA Purity – commercial | Nokia |
| 2013 | NOKIA Purity Pro – ‘Skater’ | Nokia |
| 2013 | Posti — 2nd unit | Posti (Finnish Post) |
| n.d. | NOKIA – ‘Play 360’ / ‘MD-310’ / ‘BH-111’ | Nokia |
| n.d. | NOKIA Gear – headphone design documentary | Nokia |
Companies (subject-confirmed)
| Company | Place | Years | Role | What | Producer / contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SVT Sundsvall | Sundsvall | 1994–1997 | editor, graphic designer, cameraman | regional district — Mittnytt, nature programming, studio shows. Its 16mm camera shot your first promos. | — |
| SVT (national) | Sweden | 2013, 2017, 2019 | director | Eurovision, Sommarlov, Ice Hockey WC — EBU Connect Awards | Andreas Malmgren |
| Otto Film | Helsinki, Finland | 2007–2014 | director | Valio, Nokia, Tiimari, Saunalahti, Golden Cap, GE Money, Posti | Risto Nikkilä |
| Rawfilm | Karlavägen 56, Stockholm | 2007–2008 | director | Valio (SE versions), IKEA Älmhult, Q Fort | Per Welén |
| Mekano / Mekaniken | Stockholm | 1992–2003 | director / post | the Swedish block | Johan Skog / Per Sjökvist |
| Studio KN | Skellefteå | 1992–1995 | — | Penny Century and the Garp CD | Kjell Nästén |
| A West Side Fabrication | Skellefteå | 1992 | — | The Bear Quartet | — |
| Buffel / Tambourine Songs | Sweden | 1995 | photo & cover design | Garp release & publishing | — |
| North of No South | Umeå | 1996–97 | director | Komeda, Honeymoons | — |
| Telegram Records | Stockholm | 2001 | director | Kinnda | — |
| Flynn Productions | London | ≈2002–2007 | director | the UK pop era — far larger than published sources show | Kat Armour-Brown |
| Infinity Productions | London | 2008–2013 | director / editor | shoots, reels, post | Mark Stothert |
| Stamp Films | London | ≈2009–2011 | director | 4 promos | Danny Germaine |
| Nice + Polite | London | 2012–2014 | director / editor | promos + lyric videos | Ross Anderson |
| Havas Worldwide | London (agency) | 2013 | director | Oddka, Chivas, Credit Suisse, Mothercare, Peugeot | Rebecca Rickards |
| Esteban | Stockholm | 2004–2010 | — | later Telia family films (lead, unconfirmed) | Henric Almquist et al. |
| Cyber: few good men | Belgrade (service) | 2011, 2013 | — | Nokia & SVT shoots on location | Vuk Marjanovic |
The Swedish era — the northern indie circuit
Still release-dated but index-only (20):
| Year | Artist – song | Year sourced from |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Cloudberry Jam – ‘Twice as Cool’ | 1995-04-21 |
| 1995 | Shredhead – ‘Dork' | 'Dork’ MCD (1995) |
| 1995 | The Confusions – ‘At the Brickhouse’ | album ‘Being Young’ released 1995-02-06 (Sundsvall band) |
| 1996 | Cloudberry Jam – ‘Another Moment Follows’ | 1996-03-18 |
| 1996 | Daybehavior – ‘Cinematic’ | 1996 |
| 1996 | Ray Wonder – ‘Hang Me High’ | 1996 |
| 1996 | The Confusions – ‘All Dressed Up’ | 1996 |
| 1997 | Cloudberry Jam – ‘Day After Day’ | 1997-11-21 |
| 1997 | Honeymoons – ‘Fabrications’ | 1997, North of No South Records |
| 1999 | Heed – ‘Seldom Seen’ | 1999 |
| 2000 | Feven – ‘Bränn Bh’n’ | video released 2000-11-20 |
| 2000 | Feven – ‘Dom tio budorden’ | album ‘Hela vägen ut’ (2000) |
| 2000 | Jessica Folcker – ‘Crash Like a Wrecking Ball’ | album ‘Dino’ (2000) |
| 2000 | Jessica Folcker – ‘Miracles’ | 2000 |
| 2001 | Meja – ‘Hippies in the 60’s’ | 2001-01-31 |
| 2002 | Awa Manneh – ‘Behind Schedule (Can I Get a Witness?)‘ | same 2002 album |
| 2002 | Awa Manneh – ‘Hip Hop Ballad’ | album ‘Sounds Like Me’ (Sept 2002) |
| 2005 | Beulah – ‘Sweet Kinda Something’ | 2005-08-15 |
| 2007 | Jamie Scott & The Town – ‘Standing in the Rain’ | 2007 |
| 2007 | Katherine Jenkins – ‘Rejoice’ | album ‘Rejoice’ (2007) |
Recovered from email (46 entries)
| Year | Engagement | Client | Company |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | VALIO Vanilla | Valio (FI) | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) |
| 2007 | VALIO Gefilus – Umbrella / Clocks | Valio (FI) | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) |
| 2007–2008 | Rawfilm (Karlavägen 56, Stockholm) — working years | Rawfilm (Karlavägen 56, Stockholm) | Rawfilm |
| 2007 | IKEA — in-store film projects, Älmhult | IKEA | Rawfilm |
| 2007 | Girls Aloud — ‘I Can’t Speak French’ (first draft) | Girls Aloud (Polydor) | — |
| 2007 | GOLDEN CAP — script & treatment | Golden Cap | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) |
| 2007 | GE MONEY — storyboard | GE Money | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) |
| 2008 | Infinity Productions — director relationship begins | Infinity Productions (UK) | Infinity Productions |
| 2008 | Tesco × Disney Kids — ‘Back to School’ campaign | Tesco & Disney | — |
| 2008 | GSK — ‘Love your mouth’ | GSK | — |
| 2008 | Johnson & Johnson — ‘Red/Yellow Offer’ | Johnson & Johnson | — |
| 2008 | Toblerone — BTS stationery | Toblerone | — |
| 2008 | Tesco Direct — versions | Tesco | — |
| 2008 | Tiimari — animatics (Finland) | Tiimari (FI) | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) |
| 2008 | Q Fort — treatment | Q Fort | Rawfilm |
| 2008 | Tesco — MPEG2 settings / delivery | Tesco | Infinity Productions |
| 2009 | Faryl Smith — shoot (Infinity Productions) | Faryl Smith (BGT singer) | Infinity Productions |
| 2009 | IKEA — ‘Kitchen knowledge tool’ (Quality) | IKEA | — |
| 2009 | Saunalahti — ‘KENNEDY’ treatment | Saunalahti (Elisa, FI) | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) |
| 2010 | Mekaniken (Stockholm) — Mekano archive retrieval | Mekaniken (SE) | Mekaniken (mekaniken.se) |
| 2010 | Nokia ‘Twiggy’ | Nokia | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) |
| 2011 | Garmin — ‘Bonzo’ | Garmin | — |
| 2011 | Baygon / Autan Tropical (Draft FCB) — short animatics | Baygon (SC Johnson) | Draft FCB |
| 2011 | Timotei — cast samples | Timotei | — |
| 2011 | Flairosol — product shoot | Flairosol | — |
| 2011 | Nokia Gear Pulse1 | Nokia | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) |
| 2011 | Nokia J — video | Nokia | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) |
| 2011 | Nokia ‘Inari’ film | Nokia | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) |
| 2012 | Olly Murs — lyrics video | Olly Murs / Sony Music | Nice + Polite |
| 2012 | Jackpotjoy — pitch | Jackpotjoy | — |
| 2012 | Josh Kumra — promo | Josh Kumra / Sony Music | Nice + Polite |
| 2012 | Julia Lezhneva | Julia Lezhneva | Nice + Polite |
| 2013 | Emilia Mitiku — ‘You’re Breaking My Heart’ | Emilia Mitiku | Nice + Polite |
| 2013 | Eurovision Song Contest 2013 — trailer, shot in Serbia | Sveriges Television (SVT) | SVT + Cyber: few good men |
| 2013 | Amelia Lily — tour trailer + ‘Party Over’ | Amelia Lily | Nice + Polite |
| 2013 | The Script — grade / ITV 40s | The Script | Nice + Polite |
| 2013 | Olly Murs — YouTube edit | Olly Murs / Sony Music | Nice + Polite |
| 2013 | Mikill Pane — lyrics video | Mikill Pane | Nice + Polite |
| 2013 | Disney / White Lies — ‘A Good Book’ | White Lies (Fiction/Polydor) | Nice + Polite |
| 2013 | Antistax — new pack | Antistax (Boehringer) | — |
| 2013 | LEGO Marvel ‘Thor 2’ — teaser trailer & main film edit | LEGO / Marvel | — |
| 2013 | Habitat — ‘50 Years’ online & retouch | Habitat | — |
| 2013 | Wet Wet Wet — lyric video | Wet Wet Wet | — |
| 2013 | Oddka — PR launch film | Oddka (vodka) | Havas Worldwide |
| 2013 | Havas Worldwide — Chivas, Credit Suisse, Mothercare, Peugeot | Chivas, Credit Suisse, Mothercare, Peugeot | Havas Worldwide |
| 2013 | Posti — 2nd unit | Posti (Finnish Post) | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) |
Education & background (9)
| Year | Project | Client / artist | Role | Production co. | Notes | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Born — Skelleftehamn, Västerbotten | — | — | — | SUBJECT-PROVIDED: Born in Skelleftehamn, Västerbotten — the Skellefteå area, on the coast. | stated |
| 1974–1977 | Lågstadiet, åk 1–3 (ages 7–10) | — | — | — | SUBJECT-PROVIDED: Primary school, Skelleftehamn. | stated |
| 1977–1980 | Mellanstadiet, åk 4–6 (ages 10–13) | — | — | — | SUBJECT-PROVIDED: Middle school, Skelleftehamn. | stated |
| 1980–1983 | Högstadiet, åk 7–9 (ages 13–16) | — | — | — | SUBJECT-PROVIDED: Bruksskolan, Ursviken — still in the Skellefteå area. | stated |
| 1983–1986 | Ekonomisk linje, 3 years (ages 16–19) | — | — | — | SUBJECT-PROVIDED: Upper secondary, Anderstorpsskolan, Skellefteå. | stated |
| 1986–1987 | Kommunikation och media, 1 year (ages 19–20) | — | — | — | SUBJECT-PROVIDED: Anderstorpsskolan, Skellefteå — the first media training. | stated |
| 1987–1988 | Militärtjänst / värnplikt, ~1 year (ages 20–21) | — | — | — | SUBJECT-PROVIDED: National service, Sweden. | stated |
| 1989–1990 | Drama, teater, film, 1 year (ages 22–23) | — | — | — | SUBJECT-PROVIDED: Umeå universitet — first formal drama and film study. | stated |
| 1990–1991 | Video- och teveproduktion, 1 year (ages 23–24) | — | — | — | SUBJECT-PROVIDED: Kalix folkhögskola — vocational video and TV production. His first professional credits follow from 1992. | stated |
Music videos (111)
| Year | Project | Client / artist | Role | Production co. | Notes | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s–2001 | Early career: directing promos & commercials in Sweden | Various Swedish artists & brands | Director | Mekano (Mekano Film & Television, Stockholm); Bob Film, Stockholm | Repped in Scandinavia by Mekano; Bob Film, Stockholm | stated |
| 1992 | The Bear Quartet – ‘Hrnn Hrnn’ | The Bear Quartet (Luleå, SE) | Director | — | YEAR 1992 — endorsed by you. Provenance: track 4 of the debut album Penny Century, released 20 Oct 1992, A West Side Fabrication (WeCD 037); recorded/mixed Studio KN, Skellefteå by Kjell Nästén. Direction: your own recognition plus an index-only listing — no published third-party credit found yet. Album spells it ‘Hrnn Hrnn’ (one r). A ‘1994 Version’ also circulated, but you believe 1992 is correct. | |
| 1995 | Cloudberry Jam – ‘Twice as Cool’ | Cloudberry Jam | Director | Mekano era (SE) | Year: 1995-04-21. Year = release year of the single/album the promo accompanied; direction credit index-only. | |
| 1995 | Garp – ‘Träden viskar ditt namn’ (music video) | Garp | Director | — | OWN CHANNEL: uploaded by you to youtube.com/channel/UCBo4z1SWIzjXOkCOw4_a0DQ — a self-curated credit. Titled ‘Garp - Träden Viskar Ditt Namn’. Same 1995 release you also did photo/cover design for (Popfakta). ⬅ CONCURRENT with SVT Sundsvall (1994–1997) — subject-confirmed: you were directing music videos while working at SVT Sundsvall, where your role was editor, graphic designer and cameraman. Release years date the song, so the shoot may be earlier still (likely 1994–95). Given that role you almost certainly shot and cut the early promos yourself — read ‘Director’ here as director + camera + edit. ⬅ SHOT ON 16mm — using SVT Sundsvall’s 16mm camera; shot and edited by you, unpaid, as personal work (‘for my own fun’). That is why this era leaves no commercial paper trail: no invoice, no contract, no producer. Self-made film, not commissioned video. | stated |
| 1995 | Shredhead – ‘Dork’ | Shredhead | Director | — | Year: ‘Dork’ MCD (1995). Year = release year of the single/album the promo accompanied; direction credit index-only. | |
| 1995 | The Confusions – ‘At the Brickhouse’ | The Confusions | Director | Mekano era (SE) | Year: album ‘Being Young’ released 1995-02-06 (Sundsvall band). Year = release year of the single/album the promo accompanied; direction credit index-only. ⬅ CONCURRENT with SVT Sundsvall (1994–1997) — subject-confirmed: you were directing music videos while working at SVT Sundsvall, where your role was editor, graphic designer and cameraman. Release years date the song, so the shoot may be earlier still (likely 1994–95). Given that role you almost certainly shot and cut the early promos yourself — read ‘Director’ here as director + camera + edit. ⬅ SHOT ON 16mm — using SVT Sundsvall’s 16mm camera; shot and edited by you, unpaid, as personal work (‘for my own fun’). That is why this era leaves no commercial paper trail: no invoice, no contract, no producer. Self-made film, not commissioned video. | dated |
| 1995 | Vadå – ‘Trams’ | Vadå | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: Vadå ‘Trams’-Apple ProRes 422.mov. Year/context: Vadå, 1995 — Swedish, fits the 1995–97 northern era. ⬅ CONCURRENT with SVT Sundsvall (1994–1997) — subject-confirmed: you were directing music videos while working at SVT Sundsvall, where your role was editor, graphic designer and cameraman. Release years date the song, so the shoot may be earlier still (likely 1994–95). Given that role you almost certainly shot and cut the early promos yourself — read ‘Director’ here as director + camera + edit. ⬅ SHOT ON 16mm — using SVT Sundsvall’s 16mm camera; shot and edited by you, unpaid, as personal work (‘for my own fun’). That is why this era leaves no commercial paper trail: no invoice, no contract, no producer. Self-made film, not commissioned video. | master | |
| 1996 | Cloudberry Jam – ‘Another Moment Follows’ | Cloudberry Jam | Director | Mekano era (SE) | Year: 1996-03-18. Second video for this band. Year = release year of the single/album the promo accompanied; direction credit index-only. | |
| 1996 | Daybehavior – ‘Cinematic’ | Daybehavior | Director | Mekano era (SE) | Year: 1996. Second video for this band. Year = release year of the single/album the promo accompanied; direction credit index-only. ⬅ CONCURRENT with SVT Sundsvall (1994–1997) — subject-confirmed: you were directing music videos while working at SVT Sundsvall, where your role was editor, graphic designer and cameraman. Release years date the song, so the shoot may be earlier still (likely 1994–95). Given that role you almost certainly shot and cut the early promos yourself — read ‘Director’ here as director + camera + edit. ⬅ SHOT ON 16mm — using SVT Sundsvall’s 16mm camera; shot and edited by you, unpaid, as personal work (‘for my own fun’). That is why this era leaves no commercial paper trail: no invoice, no contract, no producer. Self-made film, not commissioned video. | dated |
| 1996 | Daybehavior – ‘Hello’ | Daybehavior | Director | Mekano era (SE) | Year: album ‘:Adored’ (1996). CREDIT INDEPENDENTLY CONFIRMED — Electrozombies: ‘Directed by Urban Strom’. ⬅ CONCURRENT with SVT Sundsvall (1994–1997) — subject-confirmed: you were directing music videos while working at SVT Sundsvall, where your role was editor, graphic designer and cameraman. Release years date the song, so the shoot may be earlier still (likely 1994–95). Given that role you almost certainly shot and cut the early promos yourself — read ‘Director’ here as director + camera + edit. ⬅ SHOT ON 16mm — using SVT Sundsvall’s 16mm camera; shot and edited by you, unpaid, as personal work (‘for my own fun’). That is why this era leaves no commercial paper trail: no invoice, no contract, no producer. Self-made film, not commissioned video. | confirmed |
| 1996 | Dublin Fair – ‘Jamboree’ | Dublin Fair | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: Dublin Fair ‘Jamboree’-Apple ProRes 422.mov. Year/context: Single 1996 (on Mr Music Hits 9-96). ⬅ CONCURRENT with SVT Sundsvall (1994–1997) — subject-confirmed: you were directing music videos while working at SVT Sundsvall, where your role was editor, graphic designer and cameraman. Release years date the song, so the shoot may be earlier still (likely 1994–95). Given that role you almost certainly shot and cut the early promos yourself — read ‘Director’ here as director + camera + edit. ⬅ SHOT ON 16mm — using SVT Sundsvall’s 16mm camera; shot and edited by you, unpaid, as personal work (‘for my own fun’). That is why this era leaves no commercial paper trail: no invoice, no contract, no producer. Self-made film, not commissioned video. | master | |
| 1996 | Ray Wonder – ‘Hang Me High’ | Ray Wonder | Director | Mekano era (SE) | Year: 1996. Year = release year of the single/album the promo accompanied; direction credit index-only. | |
| 1996 | Ray Wonder – ‘I Love But You’ | Ray Wonder | Director | — | OWN CHANNEL: uploaded by you to youtube.com/channel/UCBo4z1SWIzjXOkCOw4_a0DQ — a self-curated credit. Titled ‘Ray Wonder “I Love But You”’. ⬅ CONCURRENT with SVT Sundsvall (1994–1997) — subject-confirmed: you were directing music videos while working at SVT Sundsvall, where your role was editor, graphic designer and cameraman. Release years date the song, so the shoot may be earlier still (likely 1994–95). Given that role you almost certainly shot and cut the early promos yourself — read ‘Director’ here as director + camera + edit. ⬅ SHOT ON 16mm — using SVT Sundsvall’s 16mm camera; shot and edited by you, unpaid, as personal work (‘for my own fun’). That is why this era leaves no commercial paper trail: no invoice, no contract, no producer. Self-made film, not commissioned video. | stated |
| 1996 | The Confusions – ‘All Dressed Up’ | The Confusions | Director | — | Year: 1996. Second video for this band (with ‘At the Brickhouse’, 1995). Year = release year of the single/album the promo accompanied; direction credit index-only. ⬅ CONCURRENT with SVT Sundsvall (1994–1997) — subject-confirmed: you were directing music videos while working at SVT Sundsvall, where your role was editor, graphic designer and cameraman. Release years date the song, so the shoot may be earlier still (likely 1994–95). Given that role you almost certainly shot and cut the early promos yourself — read ‘Director’ here as director + camera + edit. ⬅ SHOT ON 16mm — using SVT Sundsvall’s 16mm camera; shot and edited by you, unpaid, as personal work (‘for my own fun’). That is why this era leaves no commercial paper trail: no invoice, no contract, no producer. Self-made film, not commissioned video. | dated |
| 1997 | Cloudberry Jam – ‘Day After Day’ | Cloudberry Jam | Director | Mekano era (SE) | Year: 1997-11-21. Third video for this band. Year = release year of the single/album the promo accompanied; direction credit index-only. | |
| 1997 | Cloudberry Jam – ‘Out of Control’ | Cloudberry Jam | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: Cloudberry Jam ‘Out Of Control’-Apple ProRes 422.mov. Year/context: On The Impossible Shuffle, 21 Nov 1997. ⬅ CONCURRENT with SVT Sundsvall (1994–1997) — subject-confirmed: you were directing music videos while working at SVT Sundsvall, where your role was editor, graphic designer and cameraman. Release years date the song, so the shoot may be earlier still (likely 1994–95). Given that role you almost certainly shot and cut the early promos yourself — read ‘Director’ here as director + camera + edit. ⬅ SHOT ON 16mm — using SVT Sundsvall’s 16mm camera; shot and edited by you, unpaid, as personal work (‘for my own fun’). That is why this era leaves no commercial paper trail: no invoice, no contract, no producer. Self-made film, not commissioned video. | master | |
| 1997 | Honeymoons – ‘Fabrications’ | Honeymoons | Director | Mekano era (SE) | Year: 1997, North of No South Records. Year = release year of the single/album the promo accompanied; direction credit index-only. ⬅ CONCURRENT with SVT Sundsvall (1994–1997) — subject-confirmed: you were directing music videos while working at SVT Sundsvall, where your role was editor, graphic designer and cameraman. Release years date the song, so the shoot may be earlier still (likely 1994–95). Given that role you almost certainly shot and cut the early promos yourself — read ‘Director’ here as director + camera + edit. ⬅ SHOT ON 16mm — using SVT Sundsvall’s 16mm camera; shot and edited by you, unpaid, as personal work (‘for my own fun’). That is why this era leaves no commercial paper trail: no invoice, no contract, no producer. Self-made film, not commissioned video. | dated |
| 1997 | Komeda – ‘Rocket Plane (Music on the Moon)‘ | Komeda (Umeå) | Director | Mekano era (SE) | IMDb dates the video 1997; the single was released Feb 1996 — a real example of the ±1 gap. ⬅ CONCURRENT with SVT Sundsvall (1994–1997) — subject-confirmed: you were directing music videos while working at SVT Sundsvall, where your role was editor, graphic designer and cameraman. Release years date the song, so the shoot may be earlier still (likely 1994–95). Given that role you almost certainly shot and cut the early promos yourself — read ‘Director’ here as director + camera + edit. ⬅ SHOT ON 16mm — using SVT Sundsvall’s 16mm camera; shot and edited by you, unpaid, as personal work (‘for my own fun’). That is why this era leaves no commercial paper trail: no invoice, no contract, no producer. Self-made film, not commissioned video. | confirmed |
| 1999 | Christian Falk – ‘Make It Right’ | Christian Falk | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: Christian Falk ‘Make It Right’-Apple ProRes 422.mov. Year/context: On Christian Falk’s album Quel Bordel (1999). | master | |
| 1999 | Heed – ‘Seldom Seen’ | Heed | Director | — | Year: 1999. Year = release year of the single/album the promo accompanied; direction credit index-only. | |
| 2000 | Feven – ‘Bränn Bh’n’ | Feven | Director | — | Year: video released 2000-11-20. Second video for this artist. Year = release year of the single/album the promo accompanied; direction credit index-only. | dated |
| 2000 | Feven – ‘Dom tio budorden’ | Feven | Director | — | Year: album ‘Hela vägen ut’ (2000). Year = release year of the single/album the promo accompanied; direction credit index-only. | dated |
| 2000 | Jessica Folcker – ‘Crash Like a Wrecking Ball’ | Jessica Folcker | Director | — | Year: album ‘Dino’ (2000). Year = release year of the single/album the promo accompanied; direction credit index-only. | dated |
| 2000 | Jessica Folcker – ‘Miracles’ | Jessica Folcker | Director | — | Year: 2000. Second video for this artist. Year = release year of the single/album the promo accompanied; direction credit index-only. | dated |
| 2001 | Kinnda – ‘Freak You Out’ | Kinnda | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: Kinnda ‘Freak You Out’-Apple ProRes 422.mov. Year/context: Swedish artist on Telegram Records Stockholm; ‘Freak You Out’ reached No. 12 in Sweden. | master | |
| 2001 | Kinnda – ‘Lovestruck’ | Kinnda | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: Kinnda ‘Lovestruck’-Apple ProRes 422.mov. Year/context: Same Telegram Records Stockholm single/album pairing as ‘Freak You Out’. | master | |
| 2001 | Meja – ‘Hippies in the 60’s’ | Meja | Director | — | Year: 2001-01-31. Earliest of several Meja promos. Year = release year of the single/album the promo accompanied; direction credit index-only. | dated |
| 2002 | Awa Manneh – ‘Behind Schedule (Can I Get a Witness?)’ | Awa Manneh | Director | — | Year: same 2002 album. Second video for this artist. Year = release year of the single/album the promo accompanied; direction credit index-only. | dated |
| 2002 | Awa Manneh – ‘Hip Hop Ballad’ | Awa Manneh | Director | — | Year: album ‘Sounds Like Me’ (Sept 2002). Year = release year of the single/album the promo accompanied; direction credit index-only. | dated |
| 2002 | Cheeky Girls – ‘Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)‘ | Cheeky Girls | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: Cheeky Girls ‘Cheeky Song’-Apple ProRes 422.mov. Year/context: Single 2002. | master | |
| 2002 | Gareth Gates – ‘Suspicious Minds’ | Gareth Gates | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: Gareth Gates ‘Suspicious Minds’-Apple ProRes 422.mov. Year/context: Double A-side ‘Suspicious Minds’ / ‘The Long and Winding Road’ with Will Young, 2002 — a UK No. 1. | master | |
| 2002 | Mary J. Blige feat. Common – ‘Dance for Me’ | Mary J. Blige | Director | — | IMDb dates the video 2002; song on ‘No More Drama’ (2001) — video year wins. | confirmed |
| 2003 | Cheeky Girls – ‘Have a Cheeky Christmas’ | Cheeky Girls | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: Cheeky Girls ‘Have A Cheeky Christmas’-Apple ProRes 422.mov. Year/context: Single 2003. | master | |
| 2003 | Cheeky Girls – ‘Hooray Hooray (It’s a Cheeky Holiday)‘ | Cheeky Girls | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: Cheeky Girls ‘Hooray Hooray’-Apple ProRes 422.mov. Year/context: Single 2003. | master | |
| 2003 | Richard X vs Liberty X – ‘Being Nobody’ | Liberty X / Richard X | Director (co-dir. Paul Gore) | Flynn Productions | Producer: Dan Curwin | confirmed |
| 2003 | S Club 8 – ‘Don’t Tell Me You’re Sorry’ | S Club 8 | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: S Club 8 ‘Don’t Tell Me You’re Sorry’-Apple ProRes 422.mov. Year/context: Single 2003, from Sundown. | master | |
| 2003 | S Club 8 – ‘Sundown’ | S Club 8 | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: Sclub 8 ‘Sundown’-Apple ProRes 422.mov. Year/context: Single 2003. | master | |
| 2003 | Summer Matthews – ‘Little Miss Perfect’ | Summer Matthews | Director | Flynn Productions | Producer: Kat Armour-Brown; Editor: Mark Aarons; Label: Sony Music | confirmed |
| 2003 | Supernatural – ‘Supernatural’ | Supernatural | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: Supernatural ‘Supernatural’-Apple ProRes 422.mov. Year/context: Swedish girl group, years active 2002–2004 (Mathilda Carmbrant, Linda Erik…). ⚠️ MusicBrainz’s 1994 date is a different act — wrong-artist trap. | master | |
| 2003 | Tantalize – ‘Body Rockin’ | Tantalize | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: Tantalize ‘Body Rockin’-Apple ProRes 422.mov. Year/context: On Smash! Hits Chart, Summer 2003. | master | |
| 2004 | All Eyes – ‘She’s a Vision’ | All Eyes | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: All Eyes ‘She’s A Vision’-Apple ProRes 422.mov. Year/context: Official Charts first chart date 13 Nov 2004; released on the Specsavers label (CXSPECS1) as a charity single for Guide Dogs for the Blind. | master | |
| 2004 | Bellefire – ‘Spin the Wheel’ | Bellefire (Irish girl group) | Director | Flynn Productions | IMDb: Director Urban Ström; production company Flynn Productions; production manager Zara Pink. Producer Kat Armour-Brown (credits on the 2004 CD single). Single released 11 Oct 2004 (UK No.67). | confirmed |
| 2004 | Gabrielle – ‘Ten Years Time’ | Gabrielle | Director | Flynn Productions | IMDb: 2004 — corrects an earlier 2007 guess. Prod: Flynn Productions. | confirmed |
| 2004 | I Dream – ‘Dreaming’ | I Dream | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: I Dream ‘Dreaming’-Apple ProRes 422.mov. Year/context: Tied to the UK TV series I Dream (2004). | master | |
| 2004 | Kimberley Locke – ‘Wrong’ | Kimberley Locke | Director | — | IMDb: 2004 (not 2005). | confirmed |
| 2004 | Rachel Stevens – ‘More, More, More’ | Rachel Stevens | Director | — | — | confirmed |
| 2004 | Ronan Keating & LeAnn Rimes – ‘Last Thing on My Mind’ | Ronan Keating | Director | Luke’s Farm Productions, Inc. | IMDb confirms director credit, title ‘Last Thing on My Mind’ (2004). | confirmed |
| 2004 | Shonagh Daly – ‘All I Want’ | Shonagh Daly | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: Shonagh Daly ‘All I Want’-Apple ProRes 422.mov. Year/context: From Beautiful View (2004). ARCHIVE: the ‘Beautiful View’ album TVC is also held. | master | |
| 2005 | Amy Diamond – ‘What’s in It for Me’ | Amy Diamond | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: Amy Diamond ‘Whats In It For Me’-Apple ProRes 422.mov. Year/context: Single 2005 (on the Swedish Absolute Music 50). | master | |
| 2005 | Beulah – ‘Sweet Kinda Something’ | Beulah | Director | — | Year: 2005-08-15. Year = release year of the single/album the promo accompanied; direction credit index-only. | dated |
| 2005 | DJ Sammy feat. Britta Medeiros – ‘Why’ | DJ Sammy (cover of Annie Lennox) | Director | Flynn Productions | CONFIRMED: Wikipedia’s DJ Sammy music-videos table lists ‘Why’ (2005) — Director: Urban Ström. Single 13 June 2005, album ‘The Rise’, label Ministry of Sound/Data. Production co. per your own recall — Flynn also did the Ministry of Sound ‘Fade’ promo. | confirmed |
| 2005 | El Presidente – ‘Rocket’ | El Presidente | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: El Presidente ‘Rocket’-Apple ProRes 422.mov. Year/context: On the album El Presidente (2005). | master | |
| 2005 | G4 – ‘When a Child Is Born’ | G4 | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: G4 ‘When I Child Is Born’-Apple ProRes 422.mov. Year/context: On G4 & Friends, 28 Nov 2005. | master | |
| 2005 | Kano – ‘P’s & Q’s’ | Kano | Director | — | DoP: Greg Copeland | stated |
| 2005 | Kimberley Locke – ‘Coulda Been’ | Kimberley Locke | Director | — | IMDb: 2005 (not 2004). | confirmed |
| 2005 | Ministry of Sound / Solu Music feat. Kimblee – ‘Fade’ | Solu Music / Ministry of Sound | Director | Flynn Productions | Producer: Charlotte Woodhead; Commissioner: Iain Hagger | confirmed |
| 2005 | Xavier – ‘Give Me the Night’ | Xavier | Director | — | — | confirmed |
| 2006 | Dario G – ‘Ring of Fire’ | Dario G | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: Dario G ‘Ring Of Fire’-Apple ProRes 422.mov. Year/context: Single 2006. | master | |
| 2006 | Everlife – ‘Real Wild Child’ | Everlife | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: Everlife ‘Real Wild Child’-Apple ProRes 422.mov. Year/context: From the Disney ‘The Wild’ soundtrack, 11 Apr 2006. | master | |
| 2006 | Laila – ‘Glitter’ | Laila | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: Laila ‘Glitter’-Apple ProRes 422.mov. Year/context: Laila Adèle’s own site lists ‘Glitter’ (Video) 2006. She is a Swedish soul singer (‘Lill Aretha’). | master | |
| 2006 | Sandi Thom – ‘Lonely Girl’ (+ director’s cut) | Sandi Thom | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: Sandi Thom ‘Lonely Girl’ / ‘lonely Girl - Directors cut’. Year/context: From Smile… It Confuses People (2006). | master | |
| 2006 | Shapeshifters – ‘Sensitivity’ | Shapeshifters | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: Shapeshifters ‘Sensitivity’-Apple ProRes 422.mov. Year/context: Single 2006. | master | |
| 2006 | Shawn Emanuel – ‘U Better Believe It’ | Shawn Emanuel | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: Shawn emanuel ‘U Better Belive It’-Apple ProRes 422.mov. Year/context: Single 2006. | master | |
| 2007 | All Angels – ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ | All Angels | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: ALL ANGELS - BLOWIN IN THE WIND-t-Apple ProRes 422 (HQ).mov. Year/context: All Angels’ second album Into Paradise, released 26 Nov 2007 (MusicBrainz’s 2010 date is a compilation — the trap). | master | |
| 2007 | All Angels – ‘Come Away with Me’ | All Angels | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: ALL ANGELS - COME AWAY WITH ME—Apple ProRes 422 (HQ).mov. Year/context: Into Paradise, 26 Nov 2007 (Norah Jones cover). | master | |
| 2007 | All Angels – ‘I’ll Fly Away’ | All Angels | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: ALL ANGELS - ILL FLY AWAY-Apple ProRes 422 (HQ).mov. Year/context: All Angels era (debut 2006, Into Paradise 2007, Fly Away 2010); per-track date not sourceable. | master | |
| 2007 | All Angels – TVCs (3 versions) | All Angels | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: ALL ANGELS - TVC / TVC-Sound Version V2_1 / V3. Year/context: Campaign set delivered with the 2007 All Angels masters. All Angels: UK classical group, debut 2006, Into Paradise 26 Nov 2007. | master | |
| 2007 | Girls Aloud — ‘I Can’t Speak French’ (first draft) | Girls Aloud (Polydor) | Director / edit | — | EMAIL: ‘Girls Aloud “I Can’t Speak French” first draft’, 13 Nov 2007. ⚠️ FLAG: a first-draft edit or treatment — confirm your role and whether it was delivered before treating this as a credit. The single was released Mar 2008. | |
| 2007 | Jamie Scott & The Town – ‘Standing in the Rain’ | Jamie Scott | Director | — | Year: 2007. Year = release year of the single/album the promo accompanied; direction credit index-only. | dated |
| 2007 | Katherine Jenkins – ‘Rejoice’ | Katherine Jenkins | Director | — | Year: album ‘Rejoice’ (2007). Year = release year of the single/album the promo accompanied; direction credit index-only. | dated |
| 2007 | Vei Wei – ‘Go-Girl-Go’ | Vei Wei | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: Vei Wei - ‘Go-Girl-Go’-Apple ProRes 422.mov. Year/context: Wei Wei (Chinese pop star, ‘The Empress of Pop’) with FC Barcelona’s Messi, Deco, Márquez and Puyol — ‘Go-Girl-Go (Fly With Me)’, the official song and video of the FIFA Women’s World Cup, China 2007. Matches that stray 2007 email about a ‘wei wei dvd’. | master | |
| 2009 | Faryl Smith — shoot (Infinity Productions) | Faryl Smith (BGT singer) | Director | Infinity Productions | EMAIL EVIDENCE: ‘Re: website info. and shoot dates - faryl Smith’, 14–19 Jan 2009. Shotlist follow-up 27 Jan 2009. | |
| 2009 | Jade Ewen – ‘My Man’ | Jade Ewen | Director | Stamp Films | SUBJECT-CONFIRMED: Stamp Films is correct. Wikipedia claims ‘Fountain of Youth Entertainment’ — superseded. Promonews files the promo under Stamp Films (earliest credit in their Stamp profile, 2009). Producer Danny Germaine also produced Stevie Hoang for Stamp Films — consistent with the two names being related/renamed. Shot Beverly Hills, July 2009. | stated |
| 2009 | Sharam – ‘She Came Along’ (+ remix) | Sharam | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: Sharam ‘She Came Along’ / REMIX-Apple ProRes 422. Year/context: Single 2009. | master | |
| 2010 | Elena Esenina – ‘Odyssey’ (‘Одиссей и Пенелопа’ / Odyssey and Penelope) | Elena Esenina (RU) | Director | Stamp Films | Your recall: UK job, company Stamp. Corroborated by crew slate ‘ELENA ESENINA ODYSSEY & PENELOPE DIR URBAN STROM / CAM ADAM FRISCH F.S.F.’. Single released 18 Sept 2009 (album ‘Кругосветное путешествие’); video published 19 June 2011. Stamp Films active 2009–2011. NB: Adam Frisch FSF also shot your Volvo/IKEA/Q Fort/Valio work. | stated |
| 2010 | Emin – ‘Obvious’ | Emin | Director | Stamp Films | SUBJECT-CONFIRMED: video made for Stamp Films. Artist is Emin Agalarov, the Azerbaijani singer & businessman (b. 1979, Baku) — this disambiguates from the Swedish/Russian artists of the same name. Official video published 30 Sept 2010; album ‘Wonder’ (2010), written with Jamie Scott and produced by Brian Rawling after Emin relocated to London (2010). | stated |
| 2010 | Stevie Hoang – ‘No Coming Back’ | Stevie Hoang | Director | Stamp Films | Producer: Danny Germaine; Label: Mercury; Commissioner: Dan Curwin; Movement: Natricia Bernard | confirmed |
| 2012 | Jodie Marie – ‘I Got You’ | Jodie Marie | Director | — | — | confirmed |
| 2012 | Josh Kumra — promo | Josh Kumra / Sony Music | Director | Nice + Polite | EMAIL: treatment, budget and shoot threads Nov 2012 – Jan 2013 with Chloe Page, Ross Anderson, Gail Mosley, Ben Sullivan and Sony Music. DP: Greg Copeland. | |
| 2012 | Julia Lezhneva | Julia Lezhneva | Director | Nice + Polite | EMAIL: ‘Julia Lezhneva’, 19 Nov 2012 (Chloe Page). | |
| 2012 | Olly Murs — lyrics video | Olly Murs / Sony Music | Director | Nice + Polite | EMAIL EVIDENCE: ‘Olly - Work In Progress 2’ 28 Sep 2012 with Alice Frost (Sony Music) and [email redacted]; ‘Olly - Lyrics Video - Animated type’ 1 Oct 2012. | |
| 2013 | Amelia Lily — tour trailer + ‘Party Over’ | Amelia Lily | Director | Nice + Polite | EMAIL: ‘Amilia Lily Tour Trailer (Changes) / Invoice 1313’ 15 Mar 2013; ‘Amelia Lily Party Over - Itunes / TV - Invoice 1321’ 3 May 2013 (Luke Graham, Daniel Huggett). | |
| 2013 | Disney / White Lies — ‘A Good Book’ | White Lies (Fiction/Polydor) | Director | Nice + Polite | EMAIL: ‘White Lies’, ‘A Good Book…’, ‘Disney / White Lies’, 23–25 Jul 2013 (Luke Graham). | |
| 2013 | Emilia Mitiku – ‘You’re Breaking My Heart’ | Emilia Mitiku | Director | — | — | confirmed |
| 2013 | Emilia Mitiku — ‘You’re Breaking My Heart’ | Emilia Mitiku | Director | Nice + Polite | EMAIL: full pre-production Mar 2013 — DP options, gym recce, musicians casting, scene mood board, floor-tom prop, radio edits. With Russ Noon, Jen Herrera. CONFIRMS the 2013 date on your site. | |
| 2013 | Mikill Pane — lyrics video | Mikill Pane | Director | Nice + Polite | EMAIL: ‘Mikill Pane - Lyrics Video - Invoice 1325’, 23 Jul 2013 (Luke Graham). | |
| 2013 | Olly Murs — YouTube edit | Olly Murs / Sony Music | Director / editor | Nice + Polite | EMAIL: ‘RE: Olly - Lyrics Video - Animated type’ 1 Oct 2012; ‘Olly Murs - You Tube - Invoice 1324’ 23 Jul 2013 (Luke Graham, Ross Anderson, Sony Music). | |
| 2013 | Sam Smith – ‘Money on My Mind’ (lyric video) | Sam Smith | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: SamSmith_MoneyOnMyMind-LyricsVideo-021213_HD.mov. Year not yet sourced. | master | |
| 2013 | The Script — grade / ITV 40s | The Script | Director / post | Nice + Polite | EMAIL: ‘Grade The Script - Invoice 1323’ 6 Jun 2013; ‘ITV / The Script 40s’ 4 Jun 2013 (Luke Graham, Ross Anderson). | |
| 2013 | Wet Wet Wet — lyric video | Wet Wet Wet | Director | — | EMAIL: ‘Wet Wet Wet - Work in progress’ / ‘Lyric video’, 28–31 Oct 2013 (Daniel Huggett). | |
| 2014 | Alistair Griffin & Kimberley Walsh – ‘The Road’ | Alistair Griffin & Kimberley Walsh | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: THE ROAD - ALISTAIR GRIFFIN & KIMBERLEY WALSH (1080p CLOCK MASTER).mov. Year/context: The official song of the 2014 Tour de France Grand Départ in Yorkshire; CD released 29 Jun 2014. Kimberley Walsh = Girls Aloud. | master | |
| 2014 | Disney – ‘The Pirate Fairy’ | Disney | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: Disney - The Pirate Fairy - Master Fri 6 Jun.mov. Year/context: Film released 1 Apr 2014; your master filename reads ‘Fri 6 Jun’ = Friday 6 June 2014. | master | |
| 2014 | Katherine Jenkins – ‘Dreaming of the Days’ | Katherine Jenkins | Director | Nice + Polite | Shot in LA aboard the Nice & Polite jet | confirmed |
| 2014 | Kirsty Bertarelli – ‘Disappeared’ | Kirsty Bertarelli | Director (also editor) | Nice + Polite | IMDb: director AND editor (2014). Prod: Nice + Polite. | confirmed |
| 2014 | Kirsty Bertarelli – ‘There She Goes’ | Kirsty Bertarelli | Director | Nice + Polite | — | confirmed |
| 2015 | Meja – ‘Yellow Ribbon’ | Meja | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: Meja-Yellow Ribbon-Master.mov. Year/context: Written with Nicolas & Alessandra Gunthardt, released 2015 with Amnesty International / Free the Angola 3. | master | |
| 2015 | Stereo Kicks – ‘Love Me So’ | Stereo Kicks | Director | — | — | confirmed |
| 2016 | Ward Thomas – ‘Cartwheels’ | Ward Thomas | Director | — | DoP: Charlie Goodger; choreography/dance film shot in London | confirmed |
| 2017 | Rollock – ‘The Agent’ | Rollock | Director | — | — | confirmed |
| 2017 | The Shires – ‘Daddy’s Little Girl’ | The Shires | Director | — | — | confirmed |
| 2017 | Una Healy & Sam Palladio – ‘Stay My Love’ | Una Healy | Director | — | IMDb confirms director credit (titled ‘Una Healy feat. Sam Palladio: Stay My Love’). | confirmed |
| 2018 | Max George – ‘Barcelona’ | Max George | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your own archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Music Video (ProRes)). File: MaxGeorge_Barcelona_MASTER(24JUN2018).mov. Year not yet sourced. | master | |
| 2020 | Kirsty Bertarelli – ‘Tick Tock’ | Kirsty Bertarelli | Director | — | — | stated |
| 2020 | Ronan Keating & Emeli Sandé – ‘One of a Kind’ | Ronan Keating & Emeli Sandé | Director | — | IMDb title is ‘Ronan Keating & Emeli Sandé: One of a Kind’ (2020) — site calls it ‘Your Love Is One Of A Kind’. | confirmed |
| 2021 | Jodie Marie – ‘Carageen’ | Jodie Marie | Director | — | — | confirmed |
| 2024 | Alexis Ffrench – ‘Canyons’ | Alexis Ffrench | Director | — | — | confirmed |
| n.d. | Ana – ‘Life’ | Ana | Director | — | OWN CHANNEL: uploaded by you to youtube.com/channel/UCBo4z1SWIzjXOkCOw4_a0DQ — a self-curated credit. Titled ‘Ana “Life“‘. | stated |
| n.d. | Annie Lennox – ‘Why’ (DJ Sammy version) | Annie Lennox / DJ Sammy | Director | — | — | unverified |
| n.d. | Elena Esenina – ‘Odyssey’ | Elena Esenina | Director | — | — | stated |
| n.d. | Meja – ‘Strange Kind of Love’ | Meja | Director | — | — | stated |
| n.d. | User – ‘Do You?‘ | User | Director | — | OWN CHANNEL: uploaded by you to youtube.com/channel/UCBo4z1SWIzjXOkCOw4_a0DQ — a self-curated credit. Titled ‘User “Do You”’. Resolves the previously unidentified ‘Do You?’ entry. | stated |
Commercials & brand films (66)
| Year | Project | Client / artist | Role | Production co. | Notes | Conf. |
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| 1999 | WETTEX — ‘50 år’ | Wettex | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). Swedish cleaning-cloth brand, 50th-anniversary spot. (Distinct from the Habitat ‘50 Years’ job.) Year basis: Wettex was invented in 1949 (Curt Lindquist, Celloplast, Norrköping) — so a ‘50 år’ anniversary spot is 1999. Inferred from the brand’s founding, not from a broadcast record. | master | |
| 2000 | STOCKHOLMS FILMFESTIVAL 2000 — festival ident | Stockholms Filmfestival | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). Stockholm Filmfestival 2000 master — a second festival ident, two years after the 1998 one already in this map. This one was sitting in the archive unnamed in the record. | master | |
| 2000 | WEDINA SKOR — ‘Ny Loggo’ | Wedina Skor | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). Swedish shoe brand; ‘new logo’ spot. Year basis: Wedins Skor hired Leo Burnett Stockholm around 1999–2000; Dagens Media (9 Nov 2000) records Wedins winning best popular-press campaign. Lürzer’s Archive also holds the Leo Burnett Stockholm Wedins work (‘Make The World A Bit More Beautiful’). Why ‘Ny Loggo’ fits: a new-logo launch spot belongs to the rebrand at the start of that agency relationship — ≈1999–2001. | master | |
| 2004–2010 | TELIA — ‘Familjen Ström’ | Telia | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). Telia Familjen Ström master — Swedish telecom; the spot is named ‘Familjen Ström’. Year basis: Telia’s family ad series ran January 2004 – December 2010 (90 films; SVT/Sv. Wikipedia ‘Telia-reklamen’). Concept by Martin Marklund, Enis Püpülek & Petrus Kukulski; later films made with the production company Esteban. ⚠️ The on-screen family was ‘familjen Svensson’ — your master is named ‘Familjen Ström’; if this is not that series, treat the window as unconfirmed. | master | |
| 2005 | IL DIVO — TVC | Il Divo | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). Il Divo Il Divo TVC master — the classical-crossover vocal group. Year basis: Il Divo’s debut album was released Nov 2004 and the first videos date 2004–2005 — so this TVC is ≈2004–2005. | master | |
| 2005 | WILL YOUNG — ‘Live In London’ HMV | Will Young | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). Will Young Live In London HMV master — in-store/HMV retail film. Young was Gareth Gates’ 2002 duet partner. Year basis: Will Young’s Live in London was recorded at Wembley Arena on 21 Dec 2004 and released 21 March 2005 (Official Charts first chart date 02/04/2005) — so this HMV retail film is 2005. | master | |
| 2006 | CARTOON NETWORK — ‘Ben 10’ ident | Cartoon Network | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). Named ident master (Cartoon Network Ben 10). ARCHIVE: four named ident masters held — Ben 10, Fosters, Half Term, My Gym Partner. Year basis: Cartoon Network UK idents tied to Ben 10 (2005–), Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends (2004) and My Gym Partner’s a Monkey (2006) — placing this ident package ≈2005–2006. | master | |
| 2006 | CARTOON NETWORK — ‘Fosters’ ident | Cartoon Network | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). Named ident master (Cartoon Network Fosters). ARCHIVE: four named ident masters held — Ben 10, Fosters, Half Term, My Gym Partner. Year basis: Cartoon Network UK idents tied to Ben 10 (2005–), Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends (2004) and My Gym Partner’s a Monkey (2006) — placing this ident package ≈2005–2006. | master | |
| 2006 | CARTOON NETWORK — ‘Half Term’ ident | Cartoon Network | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). Named ident master (Cartoon Network Half Term). ARCHIVE: four named ident masters held — Ben 10, Fosters, Half Term, My Gym Partner. Year basis: Cartoon Network UK idents tied to Ben 10 (2005–), Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends (2004) and My Gym Partner’s a Monkey (2006) — placing this ident package ≈2005–2006. | master | |
| 2006 | CARTOON NETWORK — ‘My Gym Partner’ ident | Cartoon Network | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). Named ident master (Cartoon Network My Gym Partner) — for My Gym Partner’s a Monkey. ARCHIVE: four named ident masters held — Ben 10, Fosters, Half Term, My Gym Partner. Year basis: Cartoon Network UK idents tied to Ben 10 (2005–), Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends (2004) and My Gym Partner’s a Monkey (2006) — placing this ident package ≈2005–2006. | master | |
| 2007 | GE MONEY — storyboard | GE Money | Director | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) | EMAIL: ‘Re: GE MONEY storyboard’, 26 Mar 2007 to the Otto Film address. | |
| 2007 | GOLDEN CAP — script & treatment | Golden Cap | Director | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) | EMAIL: ‘Golden Cap Script’, ‘Golden Cap Script again’, ‘Golden Cap Treatment 1’, 27 Nov 2007 (Otto Film thread). | |
| 2007 | IKEA — in-store film projects, Älmhult | IKEA | Director | Rawfilm | EMAIL: ‘Är inne på mitt andra IKEA projektet… man måste vara i Älmhult så mycket’ (8 May 2007) — so a SECOND IKEA project by May 2007, shot at IKEA HQ, Älmhult. Follow-up ‘Re: Hej från IKEA land’ 12 Feb 2008. | |
| 2007 | VALIO Gefilus – Umbrella / Clocks | Valio (FI) | Director | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) | SUBJECT-CONFIRMED: an Otto Film production. Provenance: email ‘Valio Vanilla EDL’S (OTTO FILM)’ 17 Nov 2007; all Valio threads match ‘ottofilm’; producer Risto Nikkilä. Shoot/storyboard Oct–Dec 2007; Swedish AND Finnish versions (‘Valio Clocks Swedish 20s’, ‘Clocks Finnish 20s’, ‘Umbrella 20s’). RECONCILIATION: the Oct 2007 animatic emails also ran via Per Welén at Rawfilm (Stockholm) — consistent with Otto Film producing in Helsinki while the Swedish-market versions were handled from Stockholm. ARCHIVE CONFIRMS the two-language split: director’s cuts held for Valio Gefilus ‘Clocks’ FIN, ‘Clocks’ SVE and ‘Umbrella’, plus Valio Vanilla and an ORIGINAL version. | |
| 2007 | VALIO Vanilla | Valio (FI) | Director | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) | SUBJECT-CONFIRMED: an Otto Film production. Provenance: email ‘Valio Vanilla EDL’S (OTTO FILM)’ 17 Nov 2007; all Valio threads match ‘ottofilm’; producer Risto Nikkilä. Shoot/storyboard Oct–Dec 2007; Swedish AND Finnish versions (‘Valio Clocks Swedish 20s’, ‘Clocks Finnish 20s’, ‘Umbrella 20s’). RECONCILIATION: the Oct 2007 animatic emails also ran via Per Welén at Rawfilm (Stockholm) — consistent with Otto Film producing in Helsinki while the Swedish-market versions were handled from Stockholm. ARCHIVE CONFIRMS the two-language split: director’s cuts held for Valio Gefilus ‘Clocks’ FIN, ‘Clocks’ SVE and ‘Umbrella’, plus Valio Vanilla and an ORIGINAL version. | |
| 2008 | GSK — ‘Love your mouth’ | GSK | Director / post | — | EMAIL: ‘GSK Love your mouth briefing (1/2, 2/2)’ and GSK asset files, 18 Jun 2008 (Caroline Holton). | |
| 2008 | Johnson & Johnson — ‘Red/Yellow Offer’ | Johnson & Johnson | Director / post | — | EMAIL: ‘J&J Red/Yellow Offer’, 13 Aug 2008. | |
| 2008 | Q Fort — treatment | Q Fort | Director | Rawfilm | EMAIL: ‘QFort treatment’ + replies, 7 Apr 2008. Q Fort is also on Adam Frisch FSF’s CV alongside your Volvo/IKEA/Valio work. ARCHIVE: four finished Q Fort spots held (Ciocolatte, Compact, Neibour, Window) — so this was a real shoot campaign, not only a treatment. | |
| 2008 | Tesco Direct — versions | Tesco | Director / post | — | EMAIL: ‘Tesco Direct Version New / V2’, 21–22 Jul 2008. | |
| 2008 | Tesco × Disney Kids — ‘Back to School’ campaign | Tesco & Disney | Director / post | — | EMAIL: Aug–Sep 2008 threads on ‘Tesco Disney Food - Back to School’, ‘Disney Kids Food V2/V10’, baby fair, stationery & clothing. With Rupert Stubbs, Helen Chaffey, Caroline Holton. | |
| 2008 | Tesco — MPEG2 settings / delivery | Tesco | Post | Infinity Productions | EMAIL: ‘Re: Tesco MPEG2 settings’, 12 Jun 2008 — the delivery side of the Tesco work also running through Infinity that summer. | |
| 2008 | Tiimari — animatics (Finland) | Tiimari (FI) | Director | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) | SUBJECT-CONFIRMED: the Nokia adverts were produced by Otto Film, Helsinki, Finland. EMAIL: ‘Tiimari 10 animatic’ 3 Jul 2008; ‘Tiimari work in progress’ 29–31 Jul 2008. With Risto Nikkilä (Otto Film) — the same producer as the 2011 Nokia Purity job. | |
| 2008 | Toblerone — BTS stationery | Toblerone | Director / post | — | EMAIL: ‘BTS-STATIONERY TOBLERONE’, 15 Aug 2008. | |
| 2009 | IKEA — ‘Kitchen knowledge tool’ (Quality) | IKEA | Director | — | EMAIL EVIDENCE: invoice ref 554009, May 2009 (‘Invoice: Kitchen knowledge tool (Quality)’); IKEA invoice chase 20 May 2009. Matches Adam Frisch FSF’s CV listing Urban Strom on IKEA/Volvo/Q Fort/Valio. | |
| 2009 | Saunalahti — ‘KENNEDY’ treatment | Saunalahti (Elisa, FI) | Director | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) | EMAIL: ‘Script from Finland’ 10 Apr 2009 then ‘Saunalahti KENNEDY - First draft of treatment and a moodboard’, 10–15 Apr 2009. Saunalahti is a Finnish telecom brand (Elisa). | |
| 2010 | Nokia ‘Twiggy’ | Nokia | Director | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) | EMAIL: ‘FW: Twiggy’, ‘Twiggy New Version’, ‘Twiggy demo film / memo’ — Oct 2010, Risto Nikkilä; Nokia contact [email redacted]. | |
| 2011 | Baygon / Autan Tropical (Draft FCB) — short animatics | Baygon (SC Johnson) | Director | Draft FCB | EMAIL EVIDENCE: ‘Re: Baygon (Draft FCB) Short animatics / films - Quick & Rough’ 18 Jan 2011; ‘Draft FCB “Autan Tropical” script’ with Mark Stothert, Sep 2010. | |
| 2011 | Flairosol — product shoot | Flairosol | Director | — | EMAIL EVIDENCE: ‘Pack shot shoot.’ / ‘Re: Flairosol product shoot and reel feedback’ 26–27 Apr 2011; Jennie Shaw. | |
| 2011 | Garmin — ‘Bonzo’ | Garmin | Director | — | EMAIL EVIDENCE: ‘Setting up the offline on Garmin’ 30 Jun 2011; ‘Garmin WAVs from Zoo’ 15 Jul 2011; ‘Invoice 1274 - Garmin Bonzo’ 28 Nov 2011. | |
| 2011 | NOKIA Gear, Belgrade pt.2 – ‘Luna’ / ‘Scallop’ / ‘Essence’ | Nokia | Director | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) + Cyber: few good men (service, Belgrade) | SUBJECT-CONFIRMED: the Nokia adverts were produced by Otto Film, Helsinki, Finland. Line producer: Vuk Marjanovic; DoP: Vladan Jankovic; post: DIGITALKRAFT | confirmed |
| 2011 | NOKIA Purity headphones – ‘Dancer’ & ‘HD Rocker’ | Nokia | Director | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) | SUBJECT-CONFIRMED: the Nokia adverts were produced by Otto Film, Helsinki, Finland. Producer: Risto Nikkilä; DoP: Greg Copeland; shot London, Red Epic & 5D | confirmed |
| 2011 | NOKIA – ‘Squid’ / ‘Master’ | Nokia | Director | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) + Cyber: few good men (service, Belgrade) | SUBJECT-CONFIRMED: the Nokia adverts were produced by Otto Film, Helsinki, Finland. DoP: Vladan Jankovic | confirmed |
| 2011 | Nokia ‘Inari’ film | Nokia | Director | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) | EMAIL: ‘Ottofilm / Nokia Inari Film 3rd Lineup ready for download’ and ‘additional suggestion’, 24 Aug 2011. | |
| 2011 | Nokia Gear Pulse1 | Nokia | Director | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) | EMAIL: ‘Nokia Gear Pulse1 video & products’, 21 Jan 2011 ([email redacted]). | |
| 2011 | Nokia J — video | Nokia | Director | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) | EMAIL: ‘FW: Nokia J video - urgent request’, 18 Aug 2011 (Risto Nikkilä). | |
| 2011 | Timotei — cast samples | Timotei | Director | — | EMAIL EVIDENCE: ‘Fwd: Timotei cast samples’ 14 Mar 2011 (Infinity thread). | |
| 2012 | Jackpotjoy — pitch | Jackpotjoy | Director | — | EMAIL EVIDENCE: ‘Jackpotjoy pitch 1’ 8 May 2012. Pitch stage, not necessarily awarded. | |
| 2012 | MICHAEL KIWANUKA — ‘Home Again’ TVC (40s) | Michael Kiwanuka | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). Michael Kiwanuka TVC - Home Again 40s - Out Now - 720p MASTER — an album promo TVC for Home Again (album released 2012). Year basis: Michael Kiwanuka’s Home Again album (2012) — the spot is an album-promo TVC (‘Out Now’). | master | |
| 2012 | NOKIA Purity – commercial | Nokia | Director | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) | SUBJECT-CONFIRMED: the Nokia adverts were produced by Otto Film, Helsinki, Finland. | stated |
| 2013 | Antistax — new pack | Antistax (Boehringer) | Director / post | — | EMAIL: ‘Antistax - New Pack - Invoice 1319’, Apr 2013 (Edward Bishop). | |
| 2013 | Habitat — ‘50 Years’ online & retouch | Habitat | Post / online | — | EMAIL: ‘Habitat 50 Years Online & Retouch 1 day / Invoice 1336’ 14 Oct 2013; ‘In store Standing’ 15 Oct 2013 (Daniel Huggett, Matt Frost). | |
| 2013 | Havas Worldwide — Chivas, Credit Suisse, Mothercare, Peugeot | Chivas, Credit Suisse, Mothercare, Peugeot | Post / online | Havas Worldwide | EMAIL: ‘Additional work - Chivas / Mothercare / Peugeot / Credit Suisse - Invoice’, 28 Oct 2013; ‘Chivas Christmas Card’ final masters 2 Dec 2013. | |
| 2013 | LEGO Marvel ‘Thor 2’ — teaser trailer & main film edit | LEGO / Marvel | Editor / online | — | EMAIL: ‘LEGO edit’ 15 Oct 2013; ‘Lego & Marvel Thor 2 (Job Number 1212) - Invoice 1340’ 28 Oct 2013; Greenwich Film. With Matt Frost. | |
| 2013 | NOKIA Purity Pro – ‘Skater’ | Nokia | Director | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) | SUBJECT-CONFIRMED: the Nokia adverts were produced by Otto Film, Helsinki, Finland. | confirmed |
| 2013 | Oddka — PR launch film | Oddka (vodka) | Director | Havas Worldwide | EMAIL: ‘Oddka / PR Launch film - Invoice 1334’ 14 Oct 2013 (Rebecca Rickards / Jon Price, Havas Worldwide). | |
| 2013 | Posti — 2nd unit | Posti (Finnish Post) | 2nd unit director | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) | EMAIL: ‘Re: Postin 2nd unit’, 3 Jun 2013 — thread includes Dome Karukoski (Finnish film director) and Ari Laitinen. ⚠️ You are on a 2nd-unit thread; confirm your role. | |
| n.d. | Ads On Maps — NAVTEQ | Nokia / NAVTEQ | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). Two masters: Ads_On_Maps-NAVTEQ_FINAL and Ads_On_Maps-NOKIA_FINAL — NAVTEQ was Nokia’s mapping arm, so this sits with the Otto Film Nokia work. | master | |
| n.d. | DOLE — ‘Bananer’ | Dole | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). Swedish-language spot (Dole Bananer). | master | |
| n.d. | ERICSSON — ‘Lego’ | Ericsson | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). Ericsson Lego master. | master | |
| n.d. | FINNET 999 — ‘Puhelu Ystävälle’ | Finnet 999 (FI) | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). Finnish-language spot (‘a call to a friend’) for Finnet 999, a Finnish telecom service. | master | |
| n.d. | MAKU Magazine — ‘ENG’ | Maku | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). Maku Magazine - ENG master (Swedish magazine title). | master | |
| n.d. | MERCEDES — ‘Vinn en’ films 1–3 | Mercedes-Benz | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). Three competition films (Mercedes Vinn en film 1/2/3, Swedish ‘Win a…‘). | master | |
| n.d. | MONTBLANC – ‘Katherine’ | Montblanc | Director | — | EMAIL EVIDENCE: ‘Mont Blanc - Test’ named in your Jan 2009 reel list. | stated |
| n.d. | NOKIA Gear — BH-505 | Nokia | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). NOKIA_GEAR_BH-505_MASTER. | master | |
| n.d. | NOKIA Gear — BH-905i | Nokia | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). NOKIA GEAR BH-905i MASTER — a headphone model not previously in the record. | master | |
| n.d. | NOKIA Gear — Long Film | Nokia | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). NOKIA GEAR LONG FILM MASTER (14 GB — the biggest Nokia asset you hold). | master | |
| n.d. | NOKIA – ‘Play 360’ / ‘MD-310’ / ‘BH-111’ | Nokia | Director | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) | SUBJECT-CONFIRMED: the Nokia adverts were produced by Otto Film, Helsinki, Finland. | stated |
| n.d. | SHONAGH DALY — ‘Beautiful View’ album TVC | Shonagh Daly | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). Shonagh Daly Beautiful View Album TVC — the album TVC for the act whose music video is also in your record (2004). ARCHIVE: the ‘Beautiful View’ album TVC is also held. | master | |
| n.d. | STINGPLAY — company presentation | StingPlay | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). StingPlay Company Presentation MASTER. | master | |
| n.d. | VW — ‘Hyr en Beetle’ | Volkswagen (SE) | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). Swedish VW spot (‘Rent a Beetle’). | master | |
| n.d. | VW — ‘www’ | Volkswagen (SE) | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). Second Swedish VW master. | master | |
| n.d. | Volvo / IKEA / Q Fort / Valio Yogurt (commercials) | Volvo, IKEA, Q Fort, Valio | Director | — | DoP: Adam Frisch, FSF ARCHIVE CONFIRMS the two-language split: director’s cuts held for Valio Gefilus ‘Clocks’ FIN, ‘Clocks’ SVE and ‘Umbrella’, plus Valio Vanilla and an ORIGINAL version. | stated |
| n.d. | WASA Bread — commercials | Wasa (SE/FI) | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). Consolidated Wasa Bread Commercials master. ARCHIVE: the Wasa family is bigger than this row — also ‘Ad Break’ 1/2A/2B, ‘Sugar’, ‘Slideshow’ and a consolidated ‘Wasa Bread Commercials’ master, with audio stems. | master | |
| n.d. | WASA Topping / WASA slideshow | Wasa (SE/FI) | Director | — | — ARCHIVE: the Wasa family is bigger than this row — also ‘Ad Break’ 1/2A/2B, ‘Sugar’, ‘Slideshow’ and a consolidated ‘Wasa Bread Commercials’ master, with audio stems. | stated |
| n.d. | WASA — ‘Ad Break’ 1 / 2A / 2B | Wasa (SE/FI) | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). Three ad-break masters, plus audio stems (.aif) in the same folder. ARCHIVE: the Wasa family is bigger than this row — also ‘Ad Break’ 1/2A/2B, ‘Sugar’, ‘Slideshow’ and a consolidated ‘Wasa Bread Commercials’ master, with audio stems. | master | |
| n.d. | WASA — ‘Sugar’ | Wasa (SE/FI) | Director | MASTER: delivered ProRes master in your archive (N:\Backup - Video Archive\Masters - Commercials & TVC (ProRes)). Wasa Sugar Eng master + stem. ARCHIVE: the Wasa family is bigger than this row — also ‘Ad Break’ 1/2A/2B, ‘Sugar’, ‘Slideshow’ and a consolidated ‘Wasa Bread Commercials’ master, with audio stems. | master |
TV, sport & broadcast (7)
| Year | Project | Client / artist | Role | Production co. | Notes | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994–1997 | SVT Sundsvall — regional television (Mittnytt district) | Sveriges Television (SVT) | Editor, graphic designer & cameraman (staff) | SVT Sundsvall | SUBJECT-STATED: 1994–1997, worked in Sundsvall for SVT (Sveriges Television). CONTEXT: SVT Sundsvall was a full SVT district, not just a transmitter — it produced Mittnytt, the regional news programme for Västernorrland and Jämtland (on air 1973–2015, broadcast from Sundsvall and, until 10 Jan 1994, also Falun). The district also produced other output: SVT’s public-service reports name SVT Sundsvall (Mittnytt), and the district was where SVT later concentrated its nature programming (‘alla naturprogram ska produceras i Sundsvall’), alongside studio shows such as Röda Rummet and Studio pop. ⚠️ Role at the station not yet established. ⬅ OVERLAP CONFIRMED: you did music videos while working at SVT Sundsvall — the two run in parallel, so the station was the base from which the early promo career started, not a job you left behind. Likely also explains the northern bias of the 1994–97 videos (Sundsvall’s The Confusions, Umeå’s Komeda and Honeymoons, Skellefteå’s Bear Quartet and Garp). ⬅ ROLE: editor, graphic designer and cameraman. You were not producing at the station — you were the person who cut, designed and shot. That is the origin of the ‘Director, VFX Artist & Editor’ profile your own site and YunoJuno carry, and it means the 1995–97 promos were made by someone with camera and edit-room skills in his day job — almost certainly his own camera and editor on those videos. It also raises the odds that SVT Sundsvall’s own paperwork names you on that early work. ⬅ THE STATION’S 16mm CAMERA IS THE ORIGIN STORY. You used SVT Sundsvall’s 16mm camera and you edited the films yourself — unpaid, for your own fun. Not commissioned work: self-made cinema, made possible by the kit and the edit suite in your day job. This is also why 1992–2003 is the blank in every database — unpaid personal work with an employer’s equipment leaves no invoice, contract or producer. And it means the 4K remasters on your own YouTube channel are your own transfers of 16mm originals: Bear Quartet ‘Hrnn Hrnn’ (1992), Garp, Ray Wonder ×2, Cloudberry Jam, Heed, User, Ana. | stated |
| 1998 | Stockholms Filmfestival — official festival ident (‘vinjettfilm’) | Stockholms Filmfestival | Post / online operator at Mekaniken (also on screen, behind the projector) | Mekano | Dir/script: Jesper Ericstam & Robert Jitzmark; DoP: Henrik Gyllensköld; Producer: Johan Skog (Mekano CEO); Post: Mekaniken | confirmed |
| 2013 | Eurovision Song Contest 2013 — trailer, shot in Serbia | Sveriges Television (SVT) | Director | SVT + Cyber: few good men | EMAIL: Apr–May 2013 — location brief, animatics, casting selects, light quotes, helicopter footage, props (‘Cables’). With Andreas Malmgren (SVT), Vuk Marjanovic (Cyber), Vladan Janković (DoP), Risto Nikkilä. | |
| 2013 | SVT – Eurovision Song Contest 2013 trailer (‘Cables’) | Sveriges Television (SVT) | Director, Editor, Post | SVT + Cyber: few good men (service) | Producer: Andreas Malmgren (SVT) / Vuk Marjanovic (Cyber); DoP: Vladan Jankovic; 3D: Jonas Hummelstrand | confirmed |
| 2017 | SVT – ‘Sommarlov 2017’ promo — EBU Connect Awards GOLD | Sveriges Television (SVT) | Director | — | — | confirmed |
| 2019 | SVT – Ice Hockey World Championship trailer — EBU Connect SILVER | Sveriges Television (SVT) | Director | — | — | confirmed |
| 2020 | Red Bull 3x3 World Championship 2020 trailer | Red Bull | Director | — | — | confirmed |
Corporate / other (11)
| Year | Project | Client / artist | Role | Production co. | Notes | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Garp — ‘Träden viskar ditt namn’ (CD release: photo & cover design) | Garp | Photography & cover design | Buffel (Buf.S 09) | Popfakta / Svenskt Rockarkiv credits ‘Foto: Urban Ström’ and ‘Omslagsdesign’ on the 1995 Garp CD. Recorded at Studio KN, Skellefteå by Kjell Nästén; songs published by Tambourine Songs. NOTE: a design/photography credit, separate from the music video of the same song. | confirmed |
| 2006 | CARTOON NETWORK – idents | Cartoon Network | Director | — | EMAIL EVIDENCE: ‘Cartoon Network - My gym partner’ named in your Jan 2009 reel list (ident/promo). ARCHIVE: four named ident masters held — Ben 10, Fosters, Half Term, My Gym Partner. Year basis: Cartoon Network UK idents tied to Ben 10 (2005–), Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends (2004) and My Gym Partner’s a Monkey (2006) — placing this ident package ≈2005–2006. | stated |
| 2007–2014 | Otto Film (Helsinki, Finland) — production house | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) | Director | Otto Film | SUBJECT-CONFIRMED: Otto Film, Helsinki, Finland. Producer Risto Nikkilä. Client work: Valio (Vanilla, Gefilus — Oct–Dec 2007), Nokia (Purity, Gear, Twiggy, J, Inari — 2011–2013), Tiimari (2008), Saunalahti (2009), Golden Cap (2007), GE Money (2007), Posti 2nd unit (2013). Belgrade shoots serviced by Cyber: few good men. Threads run to Dec 2014 (‘Urban Strom - Some work 2014’). | stated |
| 2007–2008 | Rawfilm (Karlavägen 56, Stockholm) — working years | Rawfilm (Karlavägen 56, Stockholm) | Director | Rawfilm | YEARS MARKED: 2007–2008. 2007 is the working year — direct correspondence Jan, May, Aug, Sep, Oct (‘Anna Persson’, ‘hemsida’ ×2, ‘Nytt nummer!’, ‘Kommer till Stockholm’, ‘Hej!’ ×2). 2008 via the Q Fort treatment (Apr 2008). Association span is wider — Dec 2006 (a Christmas greeting sent to Rawfilm) to Nov 2010 — but 2009–2010 shows only incidental third-party mentions, no work. Contact: Per Welén, Producer ([email redacted]) and [email redacted]. Rawfilm, Karlavägen 56, 114 49 Stockholm · +46-8-4591885 · www.rawfilm.se | |
| 2008 | Infinity Productions — director relationship begins | Infinity Productions (UK) | Director (represented) | Infinity Productions | EMAIL EVIDENCE: first contact 16 Jun 2008 — recommended by Charlotte Woodhead: ‘a co called infinity, they are small… They really look after people’ (infinityproductions.com). Contact: Mark Stothert ([email redacted]). Later also Olivia Chenevix-Trench and Edward Bishop (website/reel). | |
| 2010 | Mekaniken (Stockholm) — Mekano archive retrieval | Mekaniken (SE) | — | Mekaniken (mekaniken.se) | EMAIL EVIDENCE: Per Sjökvist ([email redacted], ‘Pärlan’) 24 Jun 2010 sent two files — one filtered on you as regi (director), one everything Mekano produced. Exported from ‘Farmers Media Library’. Also asks: ‘Gjorde du några Petterson & Åkerlund projekt?’ and mentions other ‘onlineprojekt’. Alexander Mork (Mekaniken SE) 21 Jun 2010. Follow-up 1 Jul 2010 (562 KB). | |
| 2013 | Disney – ‘The Lone Ranger’ William Tell Overture/Finale (Future Cut mix) | Walt Disney Pictures | Directing, Motion Graphics, Edit | — | Arranged/produced by Geoff Zanelli; remixed by Future Cut | confirmed |
| 2020 | Stora Enso – ECO RFID Tag Technology | Stora Enso | Director | — | — | confirmed |
| n.d. | NOKIA Gear – headphone design documentary | Nokia | Director | Otto Film (Helsinki, FI) | SUBJECT-CONFIRMED: the Nokia adverts were produced by Otto Film, Helsinki, Finland. | stated |
| n.d. | SPORTON – ‘How it works’ | Sporton | Director | — | — | stated |
| n.d. | SPORTON – Peter Forsberg vs Markus Näslund | Sporton | Director | — | — | stated |
Home / personal (not credits) (3)
| Year | Project | Client / artist | Role | Production co. | Notes | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Nina – ‘I Will Know’ | Nina | Home film | SUBJECT-CORRECTED: a home film / personal video — NOT a professional credit. Recorded here so the file is accounted for, but excluded from the credit count. Year: 1992 — same year as The Bear Quartet ‘Hrnn Hrnn’, per your correction. | master | |
| n.d. | Erik Gadd – ‘Live at Etage’ | Erik Gadd | Home film | SUBJECT-CORRECTED: a home film / personal video — NOT a professional credit. Recorded here so the file is accounted for, but excluded from the credit count. Filmed at Etage, Skellefteå — a personal document of the local music scene, not a commission. The Wannadies are a Skellefteå band. | master | |
| n.d. | The Wannadies – ‘Live at Etage’ | The Wannadies | Home film | SUBJECT-CORRECTED: a home film / personal video — NOT a professional credit. Recorded here so the file is accounted for, but excluded from the credit count. Filmed at Etage, Skellefteå — a personal document of the local music scene, not a commission. The Wannadies are a Skellefteå band. | master |
⭐ IMDb name page: nm6421135
10 director credits + 1 editor credit (1997–2020). Missing: the 16mm SVT-era films and the whole 1992–2003 Swedish block, the Finnish Otto Film work, the 2007–2013 commercial and lyric work, and the entire 2002–2007 UK pop block.
⚠️ Open
- SVT Sundsvall 16mm films — station equipment logs (the camera sign-out book), staff rosters, Mittnytt end-credits, internal records; SMDB (free) + SVT public-service reports (1997/1998) + Norran/ST.
- 20 commercials still undated — TVCheck (subscription) or agency paperwork.
- Un-swept master folders:
Masters - Clients (ProRes),Masters - Nice & Polite TVC,SVT MASTERS,Masters - Not final,TO SORT,TREATMENTS,Compressed - Mekaniken,Compressed - Showreel Clips,Agency Work,RONAN MASTER. - Lokal-TV Skellefteå / Scenografiskolan — Norran, lokalhistoriaskelleftea.se, Skellefteå museum, LTU, Kalix folkhögskola.
- Pettersson & Åkerlund · Girls Aloud draft (Nov 2007) · Posti 2nd unit (Jun 2013) · Telia ‘Familjen Ström’ check.
⚠️ Database traps this project hit
- Compilation dates masquerading as original dates. ‘Hrnn Hrnn’ → 2003 (Early Years) vs the 1992 release; All Angels’ ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ → 2010 vs the 2007 album.
- Wrong-artist matches. Supernatural – ‘Supernatural’ → 1994 on MusicBrainz, a different hip-hop act.
- Parse errors read as empty results. An invalid date query returns no rows — identical to ‘nothing older exists’.
- Personal files inside a professional archive. 3 of 40 music-video masters looked like credits and were not.
- Filesystem dates are not evidence.
- A trademark anniversary is a date. ‘50 år’ + founding year 1949 → 1999.
- A negative result is not a finding. Every SVT Sundsvall / Skellefteå search came back empty — and you grew up there.
- A release year is not a shoot year. Release years are a floor; the SVT overlap starts in 1994, not 1995.
- Unpaid work with borrowed kit leaves no trail. The 1992–2003 blank is not a gap in your career — it is the absence of paperwork. No invoice, no contract, no producer: just a 16mm camera you signed out from work.
⚠️ Namesake warnings — do NOT attribute these to you
- Urban Ström, ABB engineer — patent EP0663115A1 / B1 (HVDC).
- Urban Ström, sculptor/artist — marine paintings; also a 61-year-old Urban Ström in Skellefteå and one in Gävle.
- Annie Lennox’s original ‘Why’ (1992) — Sophie Muller. Yours is the DJ Sammy version (2005).
- ‘Urban Ström’ in Starke man / Stjärnkvällen — a character played by Fredrik Dolk.
- Emin — yours is Emin Agalarov, Azerbaijani singer & businessman.