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:
Yesterday we entered Maud & Leo into the “Get It Made”-competition over at Openfilm.com. There will be six finalists, nominated by you the audience, then a jury will pick the lucky winner. Please help us by voting for Maud & Leo. The winner get financing for a feature film.
If you haven’t already watched the movie you can do so below or at Clearbits.net.
Maud & Leo has reached 15 000 downloads! That’s well exceeding our expectations. We’ve done some online marketing for the movie but not as much as we should have. Even without that notion it’s a great number for a independent short film. I have some hope that the movie itself will make the audience themselves want to keep sharing the movie, but that’s not exactly a certainty. We won’t leave it up to them to decide if the movie is spread or not, but I have a great feeling that they will keep seeding the movie and sharing their experience with friends and lovers.
To watch the movie you can do so online at Openfilm.com, and if you prefer to download the movie that can be done at Clearbits.net
Please keep sharing the movie with friends and lovers, and be sure to join us on Facebook for full listing of download locations and news about the movie.
We recently opened up our Facebook page for Maud & Leo. It’s the first step towards spreading the movie across the Internet. We’ve licensed the movie as a Creative Common. Which mean that we will be spreading it for free all over the place. Our wish is that everybody who like the movie will be spreading the movie to their dear friends and lovers.
All download links are available on our Facebook page.
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.
Today we finished a limited edition of DVD’s for Cannes. They travel today together with Tobias for Cannes. Here’s how it turned out. I will join up with them on Monday in Cannes.
Yesterday I uploaded the finished short documentary about the Young Leaders Visitors Program to Vimeo. The project was finished a couple of months ago. Now the next group is coming to Sweden in May to get exposed to social media, leadership tools etc.
The Swedish winter is in many ways extremely depressing. A lot of people choose to stay inside, especially in the bigger cities. In the series that I call Winter I’m trying to capture that but as a beautiful moment. That magical moment that you’re often to busy to live these days…
Last week we finally sent a copy of Maud & Leo to Cannes. Hopefully it will be picked as official selection. We decided to edit it down to 15 minutes which is demanded to be in the official selection. The original cut i 28 min but I’m liking the short version and maby it’s even better, it’s not totally finished though…
