Festival de Cine de Huesca - Huesca Film Festival

JENS JONSSON, THE REVELATION OF THE SWEDISH CINEMA, WILL SHOW HIS AWARDED FILMOGRAPHY IN HUESCA

The International Huesca Film Festival, following the trend set in the section “Cult Directors”, introduces the outstanding work of a director virtually unknown in Spain. Swedish director, Jens Jonsson, is considered as one of the most outstanding emerging directors in his native country, and will be personally presenting his complete cinematographic work in Huesca, most of which have received numerous awards at festivals such as Cannes, Berlin or Sundance and thus given him international recognition.

Jonsson´s artistic career did not start out in filmmaking but in graphic design and illustration, which he studied at the College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. During this time he attracted a lot of attention from several advertising agencies. His cartoons, which were published in Swedish magazines such as Magnum and Chili, gave him the opportunity to draw storyboards. This, in turn, gave him the chance to collaborate in various productions as assistant producer, a role which aroused his curiosity and made him get behind the camera as a director.

Partly thanks to the National museums Scholarship for young artists, and partly him succeeding in persuading one of his tutors, Jens got the opportunity to present his Thesis to The College of Arts, Crafts and Design in the form of a movie. The result was “Stefanja 1:3”, his first movie, and which also gave him his first recognition as a film-maker, and the “1 km film”-Scholarship, which is given by Stockholm’s Film Festival. This Scholarship marked the beginning of the short film “The Execution” and launched his career as a short film director.

After graduating from The College of Film, Television, Radio and the Theatre, Jens spent five months in Paris, supported by a Scholarship from the Cannes Film Festival thanks to his short films “Reparation” (2001) and “KG for better or for worse” (2002). Amongst his most prestigious awards is the Silver Berlin Bear for “Bror Min” (2001), which also received a nomination for best short film at the European Film Awards; the Grand Prix award at the Tampere International Short Film Festival for “Utvecklingssamtal” (2003), and the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for first feature film “Ping-pongkingen” (2008).

One of the constant features in his films, following in the tradition of the great masters of Swedish cinema such as Bo Winderberg, Roy Anderson or Ingmar Bergman, is the study of human relationships and family bonding.

29/04/2009