Team m:brane
Lennart Ström
Phone: +46 (0) 708 768 951
E-mail: lennart@mbrane.se
Lennart is former, award-winning documentary producer and festival Head and oversees the entire event in Malmö, which he is also the fundraiser for. He has a strong, vivid network within and knowledge of the documentary sector and well beyond. Lennart is maintaining the forums long-term relationships within the industry while actively working to attract new partnerships aligned with the forum’s development and future initiatives. Further Lennart is expert in anchoring the forum locally and regionally to nationally and internationally.
Lennart Ström has been in the film industry since the mid 80’s wearing many different hats, Producer, Festival Director, Project Manager, and as an initiator and member of boards of different organisations connected to the audio-visual industry. Lennart has received several Awards for his work within this field. For 15 years he was CEO of the documentary production company Auto Images, producing successful titles touring both the international festival circuit as well as becoming darlings for cinema goers, naming titles as “1000 bitar – a portrait of Björn Afzelius”, Harbour of Hope, Every Face has a Name, Becoming Zlatan and Armadillo (co-producer) going on to win at Cannes Film festival.
Annette Brejner
Phone: +46 (0) 733 612 619
E-mail: annette@mbrane.se
Annette has founded the vision, identity and organisation of m:brane - now in it’s 19th consecutive edition. REALYOUNG© docs for and with young audiences, m:brane Learning© and the Non Didactic Universe© are all her brain children.
The Focus on Denmark, which is co-programmed with Prami Larsen and this year fill the entire program of the Opening Industry Conference is a special delight for her. Annette started in the film industry in Denmark in the 1990’s as project coordinator at the Danish Film Institute for both documentaries and children’s documentaries. When she relocated to Malmö, she took with her knowledge and network and started the forum on Swedish soil. Her role model was the financing market forums, that seem to flourish the industry of documentaries on which she designed the first structure for a professional forum for audio visual content for the savvy, younger audiences, that emerged side by side with the technological evolution. Since then, the forum has evolved and undergone adjustments into what is now a steady recurring event gathering 200+ representatives of the industry from 35 countries coming to Malmö week 11 each year.
She has through her work become increasingly curious and deeper submerged in the question about the correlation between new technology, immersive experiences, the industry and young audiences’ innate intelligence and intellectual sophistication.
She believes that working in this part of the media industry assumes that we embrace climbing a steep, never-ending learning curve.
Cecilie Bolvinkel
E-mail: cecilie@mbrane.se
Cecilie is in charge of of the Pitch sessions and is the direct contact to all selected pitch producers. She comes with close to 15 years of experience from the international documentary industry including producing workshops and pitching events such as the Nordisk Panorama Forum and the European-Asian collaboration programme Crossing Borders.
Furthermore she is currently involved in organising the industry programme at IDFA and doing freelance work with fundraising and consulting on documentary projects.
Ove Rishøj Jensen
Ove has been part of the m:brane team since 2014 as moderator and tutor. Together with Creative Director Annette Brejner he initiated the concept of REALYOUNG© workshop for developing docs for and with kids and youth.
He has been working in the international documentary sector since 2003 and has an advanced network within the industry. He launched in 2019 his company for documentary training and consultancy, entitled Paradiddle Pictures. He moderates, lectures and run workshops about documentary script writing, project development, international financing, co-production and distribution.
Since 2011 Ove has worked for the Swedish production company Auto Images as Producer and Outreach Manager. He has been involved in several highly acclaimed documentaries as "Nelly & Nadine", "Only the Devil Lives Without Hope" and "Patriotic Highway".
Camilla Larsson
E-mail: camilla@mbrane.se
Camilla is responsible for all one-to-one meetings at m:brane and it is her 6th year as part of the team. She is a journalist, film critic and moderator. She is the Programme Manager of Seminars, as well as a programmer, at Göteborg Film Festival. She works, and has worked, for several different film festivals and other cultural events, such as Carl International Film Festival, the International Comedy Film Festival and Scen Österlen, a theatre company for children and teenagers. She frequently moderates seminars and talks at film festivals, cinemas and other events. Earlier in her career she directed a few short films and hade a go at different film crew positions as well as acting.
Prami Larsen
E-mail: prami@mbrane.se
As head of the cost-effective talent development institution, Film Workshop Copenhagen, for 28 years Prami advised countries like Greenland, Tibet, Nepal, Palestine, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands in creating customized strategies developing a national film culture. His work includes leading the North Atlantic Talent Workshop, helping establish film institutes in Greenland and the Faroe Islands. He co-founded the Screen Talent Europe network, now 17 partners strong across 9 countries. And he also advised the Danish Film Institute to set up Foundation Filmtalent, which supports production based, non-formal film education across Denmark.
Eldina Sulejmani
E-mail: eldina@mbrane.se
Eldina is our a versatile coordinator at m:brane. She has studied film at Lunds university and Skurups Folkhögskola and has graduated at Kulturverkstan in Gothenburg as International Cultural Project Manager. In 2022 and 2023 Eldina was responsible for coordinating m:brane’s online section.
Moreover, Eldina has experience on working on film festivals as she has been an intern at Buff Filmfestival as well as volunteering at several film festivals around Skåne, besides that, she has worked on several film projects. Currently, Eldina is working as a film pedagogue alongside her own film projects.
Johan Kullberg
E-mail: guest@mbrane.se
It is exciting to welcome Johan as a part of the m:brane team and taking on the role as Guest Coordinator. Johan look forward to meeting all these new people - Johans goal is to make sure that all our visitors at m:brane get their best stay yet here in wonderful Malmö!
Johan is a firm believer in saying yes to things, through the years and have been lucky to be involved in many different projects, within several different spheres, in roles such as project manager, venue/area manager, coordinator, producer etc.
Johan has a background in musical theater and have worked for many years as a freelance performer, mainly as a singer and actor, and he has taught dance classes and created various shows and exhibitions with children.
Johan has educated himself within project management, organisational development and interpersonal communication.
Rehanna Svedin Ollerstam
Phone: +46 (0) 468 13 1985
E-mail: rehanna@mbrane.se
Rehanna is based in Sweden Malmö. She is a graduate of Skurup Folkhögskola and has screened several projects at different film festivals around the world. Rehanna is our venue coordinator.
Her biggest interest, except film, is since March her dogs Ripleyand Alice (yes, from the films Alien and Resident Evil). Equality, human rights and the environment are key topics to Rehanna that she loves to explore and discuss as she sees them as utmost important.
Thomas Borch Nielsen
Thomas Borch Nielsen is m:branes Pitch Coach for all selected pitch teams. He is a triple winner of “Best Pitch” at m:brane and has taught filmmakers in "The fine art of pitching" at film schools and festivals all over the world. Thomas draws on his broad experience as a film director, writer and producer. His feature film debut was the science fiction film "Webmaster" (1998), followed by the children’s adventure film "Jewel of the Desert" (2001) and the animated feature film, "Disco Worms" (2008), which was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and sold at 78 countries.
In 2023, Thomas produced Lowe Haak’s animated TV series "Apple Hills" for Danmarks Radio. Thomas is the founder of the production company Nice Ninja, which is based in Copenhagen.
Björn Ringdahl
U4 Ekonomi Malmö AB
Fredric Ollerstam
Phone: +46 (0) 70 60 999 06
E-mail: fredric@mbrane.se
Fredric brings a rich background in culture and media to his role as Communications Manager for m:brane. With experience spanning radio, TV, film, and the internet, he has led diverse projects and fostered innovation across platforms since the mid-90s.
A seasoned producer, educator, and speaker, Fredric combines creative prowess with a knack for storytelling. His early experiments with stop-motion animation as a child, evolving into a passion for creative programming, and later embracing Virtual Production and AI, showcase his commitment to evolving with technology.
Fredric hopes that his blend of creativity, and passion for creating content for young audiences makes him an asset to the m:brane team, driving engaging and forward-thinking communications.