Mattias Löw Explained

Mattias Löw
Birth Date:1970 9, df=yes
Birth Place:Nacka, Sweden
Nationality:Swedish
Occupation:Film director, documentary filmmaker, photographer.
Years Active:1990–present
Notable Works:The Referee, The Other Sport, The Wilderness Diva

Mattias Löw (born 17 September 1970) is a Swedish film director, documentary filmmaker[1] and photographer[2] [3] [4] based in Stockholm and Motala, who specializes in social issues documentaries and documentary photography.[5] [6] [7] He gives lectures and workshops on the topics of storytelling[8] and documentary filmmaking,[9] in addition to occasional acting.[10]

Life and career

Mattias Löw was born in Västerhaninge, Haninge Municipality, Sweden. After high school, he went on to study cinema arts and history at Stockholm University and screenwriting for film and TV at UCLA – University of California, Los Angeles.

1990s

Beginning his career in the early 1990s as a short film and music video director.

During his studies at UCLA, Mattias Löw was a nominee and received honourable mention at the prestigious Diane Thomas Screenwriting Awards in 1997, presented by Steven Spielberg, Michael Douglas, Walter F. Parkes, Kathleen Turner and James L. Brooks.[11]

Upon return to his native Sweden from Los Angeles in the late 1990s, Mattias turned to documentaries and has won acclaim from critics and audiences alike, and been the recipient of several international television, film and journalism awards as well as arts grants[12] and stipends[13] [14] [15] for his social-, educational- and sport-themed documentaries primarily made for Swedish public broadcaster SVT – Sveriges Television[16] and Canadian public broadcaster CBC Television – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.[17]

2000s

Since 2008 Mattias Löw collaborates with Sweden's number one adventure destination, the ephemeral Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi,[18] Swedish Laponia, making documentary shorts[19] about the artists and designers creating a temporary hotel made out of snow and sculpted blocks of ice.

Throughout the 2000s, Mattias Löw conducted classes and workshops at various schools and universities, including a senior external lectureship with focus on documentary and ethnographic storytelling in the Faculty of Humanities at University of Copenhagen, in addition to lectures and workshops on storytelling for user experience and design at Umeå Institute of Design.[20]

2010s

In June 2010 Mattias Löw released The Referee,[21] [22] [23] documentary film about the Swedish FIFA referee Martin Hansson[24] [25] [26] and his tumultuous road to ref at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.[27] [28] [29]

Mattias Löw's documentary TV-series The Other Sport[30] [31] [32] about the development of women's football since the 1960s was released in time for UEFA Women's Euro 2013 which was played in Sweden. The series centers around former and present football stars Pia Sundhage,[33] Marta Vieira da Silva, Lotta Schelin, Kosovare Asllani, Gunilla Paijkull, Anette Börjesson and Elisabeth Leidinge among others. The three episode limited series attracted over a million TV-viewers in Sweden.[34] [35] [36]

January 2015 Mattias Löw received Svenska Spel and the Swedish Sportjournalist Federation's Grant at the Swedish Sports Award – Svenska idrottsgalan.[37]

In 2015, his documentary film All the World in a Design School created headlines and political debate as it criticized the introduction of steep tuition fees for non-European students at Swedish universities.[38] The film follows a Turkish and a Chinese student during a study year at one of the world's top-ranked industrial design schools, UID – Umeå Institute of Design.[39]

2016, Mattias Löw released the one-hour documentary The Indian Priest[40] [41] about Raphael Kurian, on a reverse mission. Raphael is a Catholic priest from Kerala in south India arriving in secular Sweden, and the documentary emphasizes the reversing of the direction of earlier missionary efforts.

Mattias Löw's photopoetry exhibition Aatman – The Universal Spirit with images from the annual Burning Man counterculture event in Black Rock Desert, Nevada debuted at Linköping Art Gallery in November 2018.[42] [43] The exhibition was the first large scale public art gallery display of photographs from Burning Man in Sweden.[44] Part of the exhibition is on permanent display in Vallastaden, Linköping.[45]

At the beginning of 2019 Mattias Löw guided a group of recently arrived refugees in a photography exhibition[46] [47] at Linköping Art Gallery. The works showed a reality of asylum seeking youth arriving in Sweden during the European migrant crisis.

2020s

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in India Mattias Löw created the photo-essay exhibition 98 Days, dealing with worry, uncertainty and social distancing during the 2020 lockdown.[48] [49] A digital exhibition with online viewing rooms of the project first appeared at Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen, Denmark during June, 2020.[50] [51]

During July 2021, Swedish and Norwegian news media drew attention to the fact that Mattias Löw together with Academy Awards-nominated producer Mathias Fjellström is working on a documentary film about a red scarf, originally a gift from Skellefteå Municipality to relocated residents around Christmas 2017 that appeared on one of the insurgents during 2021 storming of the United States Capitol.[52] [53] [54] [55]

In February 2022, Swedish newspapers from Norrbotten reported that Mattias Löw was making a documentary TV-series for Sveriges Television about Carina Henriksson, an opera diva from Tornedalen or Meänmaa, a culturally rich region at the border of Sweden and Finland. The series was broadcast on SVT and SVT Play in September and October 2023 with the Swedish title Vildmarksdivan, and international title The Wilderness Diva.[56] [57] [58]

In the summer of 2022, when the COVID-19 pandemic's restrictions were lifted, Mattias Löw exhibited photographs, essays and video works under the title Fångad i rädsla - Frozen in Fear about his experiences of worry, uncertainty and social distancing in India in the spring and summer of 2020.[59]

Works

Exhibitions

Bibliography

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Notes and References

  1. News: Israelsson. Marit. The documentary filmmaker speaks about the man with the Swedish scarf at the U.S. Capitol. SVT Nyheter. 2 December 2021. Sveriges Television. Swedish. 3 December 2021.
  2. Web site: Vaswani. Anjana. A summer of fear. Mumbai Mirror/The Times of India. 14 June 2020.
  3. News: Yussuf. Mohamed. The visit to India turned into an art project. Dagens Nyheter. 13 July 2020. Swedish. 13 July 2020.
  4. News: Rolla. Divya. Drama in the desert. The Hindu. 12 September 2018. 22 February 2020.
  5. Web site: Adelai. Amina. New photo project depicts India's brutal corona strategy. SVT. 23 July 2020. Sveriges Television. Swedish. 25 July 2020.
  6. News: Carlsson. Oskar. 98 days in the world's biggest quarantine. Svenska Dagbladet. 17 July 2020. Swedish. 19 July 2020.
  7. Web site: India closed down: "A fight for survival". TV4. TV4. Swedish. 19 July 2020.
  8. Web site: Storytelling at UID. UID. Umeå Institute of Design. 22 February 2020.
  9. Web site: Workshop on Film Making. The New Indian Express. The New Indian Express. 13 June 2020.
  10. Web site: Q&A World Premiere. GFF. Göteborg Filmfestival. 22 February 2020.
  11. Web site: Johnson. Ted. Pool wins UCLA screenwriting award. 24 February 1997. Variety. 11 June 2021.
  12. Web site: Arts Grant. The Swedish Arts Grants Committee. Swedish. 22 February 2020.
  13. Web site: Sweden's Government Agency for Development Cooperation Stipend. The Swedish Union of Journalists. Swedish. 29 January 2021.
  14. Web site: Stipends for Swedish Journalists. The Swedish Union of Journalists. Swedish. 31 May 2021.
  15. Web site: Stipend. The Swedish Publicist Club. Swedish. 29 January 2021.
  16. News: Ahl. Fredrik. Mattias Löw's unique Burning Man exhibition. SVT Nyheter. 10 January 2019. Sveriges Television. Swedish. 22 February 2020.
  17. Web site: Hosein. Lise. Exhibitionists. CBC Arts. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 22 February 2020.
  18. Web site: Mattias Löw directing Canadian ice sculptors. CBC Arts. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 22 February 2020.
  19. Web site: Ice Carosello at InterFilm. InterFilm. InterFilm. 22 February 2020.
  20. Web site: Storytelling in Design. UID. Umeå Institute of Design. 1 March 2020.
  21. News: Kuper. Simon. Mattias Löw Interview. Financial Times. 11 February 2011. 22 February 2020.
  22. Web site: Lamont. Tom. The Referee Article. The Guardian. 23 January 2021. 15 May 2021.
  23. Web site: Delaney. Miguel. The Referee Article. ESPN. 25 June 2016. 15 May 2021.
  24. News: Sweden's 'Hand of Henry' ref Hansson quits. Reuters. 4 July 2013. 2 January 2021.
  25. Web site: Henry handball referee quits football. ESPN. 4 July 2013. 2 January 2021.
  26. Sweden's 'Hand of Henry' ref Martin Hansson quits. Sports Illustrated. 2 January 2021.
  27. Web site: Diallo. Raf. Mattias Löw Interview. Newstalk. Off The Ball. 22 February 2020.
  28. Web site: The Martin Hansson documentary. Player FM. Team33. 2 April 2020.
  29. Web site: Whooley. Declan. The firefighter, handball and the real impact of Paris. RTE.ie. 17 November 2019. Raidió Teilifís Éireann. 22 February 2020.
  30. Web site: Christensson. Erika. The Other Sport. SVT. 27 June 2013. Sveriges Television. Swedish. 22 February 2020.
  31. Web site: Modin. Jenny. The Other Sport Chapter One. SVT. 14 June 2013. Sveriges Television. Swedish. 22 February 2020.
  32. Web site: Modin. Jenny. Lotta Schelin felt like she disappeared. SVT. 17 June 2013. Sveriges Television. Swedish. 22 February 2020.
  33. Web site: Frohm. Mikael. Pia Sundhage – 50 years of women's football. Allas. 18 June 2013. Allas. Swedish. 22 February 2020.
  34. Web site: The Other Sport Viewership. FiV. Film i Västerbotten. Swedish. 22 February 2020.
  35. Web site: I Vincitori Del 35° International Sport Film Festival Di Palermo. Giornale Cittadino Press. Giornale Cittadino Press. Italian. 13 June 2020.
  36. Web site: 4° Matera International FICTS Festival. International Sport Movies TV Federation. 6 October 2014. International Sport Movies TV Federation. Italian. 13 June 2020.
  37. Web site: Journalisten Awards. Journalisten. Journalisten. Swedish. 22 February 2020.
  38. Web site: Turborn. Elin. Not the whole world anymore. VK. 19 August 2015. Västerbottens-Kuriren. Swedish. 22 February 2020.
  39. News: Documentary Film Awards. SVT Nyheter. 29 November 2015. Sveriges Television. Swedish. 22 February 2020.
  40. News: The Indian Priest Review. The Hindu. 6 October 2015. 3 March 2020.
  41. Web site: Persson. Gunnel. The Indian Priest. Sydöstran. 21 September 2015. Sydöstran. Swedish. 23 February 2020.
  42. News: Paitandy. Priyadarshini. Burn down the night. The Hindu. 12 September 2018. 22 February 2020.
  43. Web site: Pihlblad. Micke. Mattias Löw caught the madness with his camera. Corren. 24 November 2018. Östgöta Correspondenten. Swedish. 22 February 2020.
  44. Web site: Mattias Löw Radio Interview. SR. Sveriges Radio. Swedish. 22 February 2020.
  45. Web site: Art at work in the future. Sankt Kors. Sankt Kors. Swedish. 22 February 2020.
  46. News: Lindskog. Mikko. Refugees create a photography exhibition. SVT Nyheter. 13 February 2019. Sveriges Television. Swedish. 9 May 2020.
  47. Web site: Bomgren. Victor. Integration with the help of the camera. Affärsliv.com. 10 February 2019. Affärsliv/Corren. Swedish. 10 May 2020.
  48. Web site: 98 Days - Frozen in Fear. Amnesty Press. Amnesty International. Swedish. 25 September 2020.
  49. Web site: The photo-essay "98 Days" - Eyes speak of India's lockdown. Sydasien. 17 July 2020 . Sydasien. Swedish. 21 July 2020.
  50. News: Kala Bhavani. Divya. What the world can learn from Mattias Löw's COVID-19 photo essay '98 Days: Frozen in Fear'. The Hindu. 6 June 2020. 7 June 2020.
  51. Web site: Theresa. Deena. Chronicling a crisis. The New Indian Express. 16 May 2020.
  52. News: Braslow. Samuel. A Hollywood Insurrectionist’s Path to Extremism. The Hollywood Reporter. 10 August 2023. The Hollywood Reporter. English. 13 August 2023.
  53. News: Israelsson. Marit. Production on the red scarf story under way in Skellefteå. SVT Nyheter. 16 July 2021. Sveriges Television. Swedish. 5 August 2021.
  54. News: Marklund. Daniel. The mystery surrounding the scarf becomes a documentary. SVT Nyheter. 7 July 2021. Sveriges Television. Swedish. 5 August 2021.
  55. Web site: The story about the scarf becomes a film. SR. 6 July 2021. Sveriges Radio. Swedish. 5 August 2020.
  56. News: Åström. Eva. New series about the opera singer from Tornedalen. PT. 25 February 2022. Piteå-Tidningen. Swedish. 6 March 2022.
  57. News: Skoglund. Johan E.. Powerfully condensed requiem is reminiscent of the horrors of war. NSD. 28 February 2022. Norrländska Socialdemokraten. Swedish. 6 March 2022.
  58. News: Åström. Eva. New series about the opera singer from Tornedalen. SVT Play. 27 September 2023. Swedish Television. Swedish. 12 April 2024.
  59. News: Rimstedt. Anton. Mattias and Reshma were in the epicenter of the pandemic - exhibits in Godegård Church. Östgötatidningen. 25 April 2022. Östgötatidningen. Swedish. 8 June 2022.
  60. Web site: Pihlblad. Micke. The return to Burning Man. Corren. 24 September 2019. Östgöta Correspondenten. Swedish. 22 February 2020.
  61. News: Larsson. Carl. Documented the pandemic in India - had to escape from the police. SVT Nyheter. 27 June 2020. Sveriges Television. Swedish. 27 June 2020.
  62. News: Bjurs. Sofia. They defy the curfew for the art. Sveriges Radio. 27 May 2020. Swedish. 27 May 2020.
  63. Web site: 98 days of corona fear in India. Fine Spind. Kulturmagasinet Fine Spind. Danish. 26 June 2020.
  64. News: Larsson. Carl. "Fångad i rädsla" - A unique exhibition about India's really tough lockdown. SVT Nyheter. 6 May 2022. Sveriges Television. Swedish. 8 June 2022.
  65. News: Sundén. Philip. Images from an uncomfortable reality. Sveriges Radio. 13 February 2019. Swedish. 9 May 2020.
  66. Web site: Aatman – The Universal Spirit. TT. Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå. Swedish. 22 February 2020.
  67. Web site: Wounderland at FilmWeb. FilmWeb. Polish. 31 January 2021.
  68. Web site: Ice Carosello at Der Kurzfilmtag. Der Kurzfilmtag. German. 2 June 2020.
  69. Web site: Ice Carosello at Très Court. Très Court. Très Court International Film Festival. French. 22 February 2020.
  70. Web site: Ice Carosello at Interfilm. Interfilm. Interfilm Berlin. 10 May 2020.
  71. News: Eriksson. Mikael. Film Review. Sveriges Radio. 12 November 2010. Swedish. 17 May 2021.
  72. Web site: Film Review. Film Documentaire. Film Documentaire. French. 22 February 2020.
  73. Web site: TRT Documentary Film Award. TRT. Turkish Radio and Television Corporation. Turkish. 22 February 2020.
  74. Web site: Swedish Football Association Article. SvFF. Svenska Fotbollförbundet. Swedish. 22 February 2020.
  75. Web site: Documentary Series about Women's Football and Pia Sundhage. SVT. 15 January 2013. Sveriges Television. Swedish. 31 May 2021.
  76. Web site: Documentary Film Awards. FiV. Film i Västerbotten. Swedish. 22 February 2020.
  77. Web site: Jonsson. Susann. Directors. FPN. Filmpool Nord. Swedish. 23 February 2020.
  78. News: Article. The Hindu. 4 October 2015. 3 March 2020.
  79. Web site: Review. True Doc. True Doc Documentary Festival. 22 February 2020.
  80. Web site: The Indian Priest Review. Moviebuff. Moviebuff. 22 February 2020.
  81. Web site: Film Festival. IFTF. BH Tour Film Festival. 22 February 2020.
  82. Web site: Mattias Löw on CBC Arts. CBC Arts. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 22 February 2020.
  83. News: Karlsson. Eva. A unique exhibition in Godegård Church. Länstidningen. 24 May 2022. Länstidningen. Swedish. 8 June 2022.
  84. News: Åström. Eva. New series about the opera singer from Tornedalen. Kuriren. 24 February 2022. Norrbottens-Kuriren. Swedish. 6 March 2022.
  85. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1839981/awards Awards for Mattias Löw

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