Magnus Fredriksson
Directing
Biography
Animator, filmmaker, and artist born in 1977, based in Kiruna. Has created around forty short films and tv-series, most of which are animated. Primarily inspired by the nature, culture, and environment of northernmost Sweden. In 2005, directed the worlds first animated film in the minority language Meänkieli; Kaisa & Harax: The Moose painting. The Moose painting was selected for competition at the Annecy International Animation Festival in 2006. In 2007, together with Håkan Rudehill and Anton Raukola, founded the production centre Bortbyting. Has received the Filmsparken award in 2005, the Rubus Arcticus cultural grant in 2006, and in 2015 was awarded a scholarship from the Irma and Einar Forseth Cultural Fund. In 2021 the film The Great Overflow won the Pija Lindebaum award at Sundsvall Filmfest.
Known For
A lonely guardian of land, longing for a companion in life, battles uncomfortable dates and long distances in his search for love in this short puppet film.
Who Can Love Pikku Iso?
A red shoe floats down the river.
The Red Shoe
A man, fishing in his boat, catches a blue lady’s shoe floating along the river. Did it belong to Andrea, the Polish berry-picker, who fled from the tyranny of the Blueberry King, supported by the Blueberry King’s own son, the poetic weakling Stig?
The Blue Shoe
Come along and experience a hot summer day in the small Japanese town of Misato.
Notes from a small Japanese town
After a great flood, Pää floats down the river on the roof of his house. Soon he is joined by Nif, and together they travel downstream and out into the ocean. Along the way they meet many peculiar creatures.
The Great Overflow
Spooky Wednesday is a radio show that airs every other Wednesday from 10 p.m. until the witching hour, two hours later. In the show, listeners can call in and share their own experiences, or those of someone they know, with the supernatural. Usually, it’s about some cousin from Gällivare who has seen a shadow in the corner of his eye or heard a mysterious noise once. But this Wednesday, everything is different. Frightened listeners calling in have all experienced terrifying phenomena throughout the evening. There have been sightings in the city of a revenant, apparently heading straight for the radio studio.
Spooky Wednesday on Kiruna Radio 97.3
In the animated short film Hello Robot!, we follow a girl in a desolate world as she finds an abandoned robot in a cave. Luck is short though, as batteries are hard to come by.
Hello Robot!
Pa-zu is the local mascot who stayed behind when his childhood friends moved south. Out of love for the place he grew up, he has endured a lot, as he pushes through adversity towards his goal of one day becoming a successful yuru-chara, or mascot character.