USA tycker om Andreas Tibblin och hans kortfilm Goda råd. Filmen är nu uppe i hela fem priser bara under 2009.
Sheran Pollack James from BAFTA/LA hands over the award
for Best Short Film 2009 to Andreas Tibblin.
Photo: Allison Levenson
Andreas Tibblin's short film Good Advice (Goda råd) is going down a storm everywhere, especially in America. Just recently the film picked up a BAFTA/LA in San Francisco for Best Short Film 2009. Not long before that, Tibblin won The Silver Hugo Grand Jury Prize for Short Film at the Chicago International Film Festival (where Attached to You, by Carin Bräck, Mia Hulterstam and Cecilia Actis also received a Special Mention).
Earlier this year Good Advice has picked up awards at three other US festivals – Athens International Film and Video Festival, Palm Springs International Shortfest and the Malibu Film Festival.
By the end of this year the film will have screened at 30 international festivals. Upcoming festivals include the Austin Film Festival, Interfilm in Berlin, Nordic Film Days in Lübeck, the Leeds International Film Festival, the Ljubljana International Film Festival and the St. Louis International Film Festival.
Good Advice centres on 10 year-old Rasmus who is tired of his parents and decides to run away from home. But before he goes he makes a tape recording with various pieces of advice about the life he wishes for his unborn sibling.
– The film was screened in America the same day that the story of the boy carried off in the balloon hit America. And since Good Advice is about a boy who disappears but is subsequently discovered in the attic, I got lots of questions about it. I'd just spent hours on a plane across the Atlantic, so I missed the story and wasn't at all sure what everyone was talking about. And then Woody Harrelson came up and congratulated me at the party afterwards, and I was so jetlagged I couldn't think of anything sensible to say to him. Typical! says Andreas Tibblin.
Good Advice was produced by Mikael Flodell for Drama Svecia and the Stockholm International Film Festival with production funding from the Swedish Film Institute's former film commissioner, Anne-Marie Söhrman Fermelin, and Sveriges Television.
For further information about Swedish shorts internationally, contact:
Andreas Fock, head of short films at the Swedish Film Institute's international department.
andreas.fock@sfi.se, +46 8 665 11 36