Lennart Ström

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.