Another group of YLVP’ers recently left Sweden for their respective country. They have been in Sweden for four week’s, to attend the Swedish Institute’s inter-cultural leadership program, The Young Leaders Visitors Program. During these intensive weeks they have made a lot of new friendships that will last a lifetime. I believe that many think that their life has changed profoundly during this program. It brings a lot of new skillsets to the participants. It’s a great program that promotes democracy and teach the participants both leadership skills as well as the use of social media.
I had the prevlidge to meet all these amazing people because I was documenting their time here in Sweden in pictures and video. One of the projects during this period lasted for a week. I was following them around to make a film about them and the program. A short story about why they are in Sweden. Here’s the video:
During The 5th Global YES Summit, Rework The Work, I was following the participants from The Young Leaders Visitors Program (YLVP) around. Rework The World was a chance for all if the earlier and new participants to meet and build an even stronger network. Here are some of the images from the day’s in Leksand, more can be found on my Flickr.
The last couple of weeks I’ve been working with the Swedish Institute and YLVP. Mostly I’ve been broadcasting their lectures live via Bambuser, but I’ve also done some photography during my time there. Here are some of the pictures, more can be found on Flickr.
The Young Leaders Visitors Program (YLVP) is an intercultural leadership program with focus on social media as a tool for positive change. The program invites young opinion-makers from Sweden and selected countries in the MENA region who are actively working for social change in their respective contexts. To follow the program visit www.YLVP.se or use the #YLVP on Twitter.
On Monday I was at the Swedish Institute to document the first day of the 2010′s Young leaders Visitors Program (YLVP). YLVP is an intercultural leadership program with focus on social media as a tool for positive change. The program invites young opinion-makers from Sweden and selected countries in the MENA region who are actively working for social change in their respective contexts. To follow the program visit www.YLVP.se or use the #YLVP on Twitter.
Here are some of the images from the first day.
More can be found on my Flickr and here’s a video that I’ve made earlier for the program.
About a month ago a did four behind-the-scenes movies for Wreck Creative Studios (www.wreck.se). The were making four commercials for the MTV and Nordea campaign called Check-IN. What they needed was someone to create four short documentaries about those commercials in the making.
2010 has started with a bang as I started the year by doing a campaign for MTV and Nordea. As soon as I got back to Stockholm from the beautiful northern Sweden I had 13h shooting-day at MTV in Stockholm. The campaign will be coming out soon and I will be posting it here.
Now I’m all up in two documentary projects. This weekend I’m off to do some more interview’s with Lena, a former drug addict that I’m doing an animated documentary about. The story is starting to take form, and during the spring I should have my first edit of the movie. Read more about the project here: http://blog.vonwallstrom.com/?p=485
A couple of weeks ago I finished off a new video for the world known digital media school Hyper Island. I made a short documentary about one of their modules. The film focuses on the process that 4 student go through in the module. They laugh, they fight, they present great works for their clients SJ, ICA-Banken and The Pact Project.
Long time since my last post. It’s been summer, I’ve travelled half of Europe and when I got home it was straight back to work.
Right now I’m doing a short documentary. Everything is being shot on my 5D Mark ll. Soon I’ll post more about that and other projects that is keeping me busy. Until then here’s a shot of my 5D Mark ll rig during a day of shooting in Stockholm.
Last week a photo taken of Basma Abualila was published in the Los Angeles Times. The blog article is about a journalist and filmmaker living in Gaza, she recently caused a stir in the strip with her short film on rape in Gaza. In her 10-minute film, “ A Call at Night,” based on a real-life incident, a young woman shares her story of how she was raped by her boyfriend and then forced to marry her rapist out of fear when she got pregnant. Read the article here
It’s been really busy since I got back from Cannes. I’ve been finishing Maud & Leo and at the same time financing a project for this summer. Mainly I’ve been doing continous work with The Swedish Institute and their Young Leaders Visitors Program.
Last week we put the finishing touches on Maud & Leo and these days it’s all about distribution and the up-coming projects. At the moment I have two projects that I’m working on. One of them is a feature film, it’s partly sprung out of Maud & Leo but it’s too soon to tell anything about the project.
Beside that I’ve dedicated the spring to a reseach that I’m about to go on next week. I’m going to be travelling Europe to meet swedes that have moved from Sweden. My goal with the project is to portray what it means to be swedish. Sweden is more and more becoming full of everyday rasism. I think it’s mostly because of ignorance, this project will try to create discussion about swedishness. This is just the first phase but hopefully it will result in a exhibition this year or next year.
On the trip I will also be writing on the feature film. I will try to update as often as possible. On Sunday I fly to Berlin and then I’ll travell by train to Paris, Bordeaux, Barcelona, Alicante, Marseille, Annecy, Zell-am See, Budapest, Prague, Krakow and Gdansk.
