JIMMY OLSSON
DIRECTOR SCREENWRITER
Jimmy Olsson is an award winning director and writer who began working with film professionally in 2005 after attending Kulturama film school in Stockholm. After school, to get experience he worked a lot in the advertising industry as an assistant director, production manager, editor and director. He released his first professional short film after finishing film school in 2011. It was called Repressed and it toured the world for over four years.
Jimmy´s short films have won numerous awards all over the world. His film 2nd Class has played over 170 festivals and claimed 65 awards. He followed up that film with Alive which won the Huesca international film festival and became Oscar qualified and won over 30 awards after that. Both Alive and 2nd class were picked for Vimeo Staff Picks, Short of the week and Omeleto. His comedic short mockumentaries have been a big success on the national broadcaster SVT and been seen by over 3,5 million. He is currently writing and developing several series and features. In 2022 he made his debut feature Fiktiv Granskning. Jimmy's goal is to continue making art house movies for broader audiences.
Filmography
“Thin blue line” tv-series, SVT 2024
“Last weekend with Jenny and John” short film 2023
“Fiktiv Granskning”, feature film 2022
“Notes” , short film 2021
“Acrimonius Alfie Atkins”, short film 2021
“Spookys”, tv series SVT 2020
”Alive”, short film, 2020, 23 min
”Whatever happened to Ms Longstocking, short film, 2020, 14 min
"2nd class" short film, 2018, 14 min
"The Palme Group Takes A Long Lunch" short film, 2018, 27 min
"Void" short film, 2017, 4 min
"Ceasar" short film, 2014, 29 min
"In your Interest" short film, 2012, 10 min
"Repressed" short film, 2011, 15 min
Some Selected Films Festivals: Palm springs, Brooklyn Film festival, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Leuven international short film festival, Huesca international film festival, Edmonton international film festival, Short shorts film festival & Asia, Hollyshorts, Zaragoza international film festival, Leeds international film festival, Giffoni Film festival, Bogoshorts, Rhode Island International film festival, Cleveland international film festival Fort Lauderdale international film festival, Tirana international film festival Galway film fleadh, Sao Paulo international film festival,Jaipur international film festival, Nordisk Panorama, Goteborg filmfestival