Amanda Högberg
Writing
Biography
AMANDA HÖGBERG (b.1990 in Gagnef, Dalarna) is an exciting screenwriter with a unique voice and a recipient of an Oscar for best student film “Get Ready With Me” (2018). Amanda has a background in the performing arts, as an actress, dancer, and choreographer. Her wide-ranging interests touch on everything from writing coming-of-age stories to mystery horror. She is drawn to American indie films and is especially skilled in character-driven dramas with dark, witty humor. Amanda has written episodes for director Lisa Langseth’s beloved original series “Kärlek och anarki / Love and Anarchy” for Netflix and is currently head writer for a drama-comedy series. Currently, Amanda is working on a Danish series that’s in development.
Known For
A married consultant and a young IT tech kick off a flirty game that challenges societal norms — and leads them to re-evaluate their entire lives.
Love & Anarchy
When her friend's daughter goes missing, criminologist Lejla joins the search — and must confront the haunting trauma of her own childhood abduction.
The Glass Dome
On a summer's evening in 1984, a five-year-old boy vanishes in rural southern Sweden. The police investigation fails to find the truth, leaving behind rumors, suspicion, and a grieving family. Twenty years later, the boy's older sister Vera is leading a group therapy session in Stockholm, when a young man describes a strangely familiar childhood memory of a disappearance. A shaken Vera travels home to her fractured family to uncover, once and for all, what really happened in the summer that never ended.
End of Summer
A mysterious disappearance makes two completely separate worlds collide, creating an extremely odd couple - the lawyer Emily and recently released convict Teddy.
Top Dog
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Sommaren 85
Inspired by true events. A 14-year-old girl reports that she was raped, but is not believed. The entire village turns against her and her family.
Flocking
Aspiring youtuber Vendela decides to get up infront of her high school class and show a disturbing video that disrupts the lesson and causes her teacher Lukas to fear for her life. Get Ready With Me is a refreshingly unpredictable thriller about generational power struggles that combines grim satire with the current urgencies of teen angst, social media and fame.
Get Ready with Me
Ahead of the upcoming swimming competition, 11-year-old Ziggy discovers something that's happening to his body. A transformation that makes him want to hide.
Freak
While heading to the war in the East of Ukraine, the Swedish war photographer Karin Holm encounters a young couple in Kyiv. The unexpected meeting carries her away much further from work, and closer to confronting her private-self. 'Lost in Kyiv' is a vibrant inner journey and a coming-of-age of a grown-up woman.