DEAR DIRECTOR

Marcus Lindeen is a Swedish director and playwright, working with both film and theatre. He made his debut with Regretters (2010), a play and a documentary feature The play was translated into several languages and the film went on to win numerous awards, amongst them the Prix Europa for best European Documentary in Berlin, the Swedish Academy Award (Guldbagge) and Kristallen (Swedish Emmy) for Best Documentary Film. In 2011, Accidentes Gloriosos, Lindeen’s second film, won Best Medium Length Film at the Venice Festival. In 2012 Lindeen wrote and directed the play The Archive of Unrealized Dreams and Visions, based on unfinished and never- before seen scripts by Ingmar Bergman. During that production he discovered the fan letter that his new short film Dear Director is based upon.