Biographie
Daniel Fridell is a globally recognized film director, producer, author, and screenwriter whose work has been featured at major festivals such as Toronto, SXSW, Montreal, Tokyo, Telluride, Mar del Plata, and Busan. He has earned numerous awards, including multiple Best Film honors, the HBO Prize, the Nordisk Film Prize, and several Swedish film accolades.
Fridell directed the Scandinavian box office hit The Searchers (1993), which topped theaters across Scandinavia. Following this success, he directed Cry, another Scandinavian box office leader that competed at the Tokyo International Film Festival and won several awards, including Best Youth Film at the Rotterdam Film Festival. In the early 1990s, Fridell honed his skills at the European Film Academy in Berlin, studying with directors like Wim Wenders and Jan de Bont. He later collaborated with de Bont on Twister and attended the Judith Weston Academy for Directors and Actors in Santa Monica.
His career features a series of critically praised and commercially successful films. Under the Surface (1997) found success in Scandinavia, France, the U.S., and beyond, while Dubbel-8 (2000) was an official selection at the Toronto International Film Festival. In the mid-2000s, Fridell wrote and directed two consecutive hits: Bloodbrothers (2005), starring Noomi Rapace and Sofia Helin, and Say That You Love Me (2006), both box office successes that earned several awards, including Best Actress honors.
As a producer, Fridell delivered Robbers for Universal Nordic, starring Sofia Helin and Mikael Persbrandt, and Exit (2006) for Paramount Nordic, featuring Mads Mikkelsen and Alexander Skarsgård. He also produced the Japanese horror film Apartment 1303 (2007), based on Kei Oishi's novel Ju-on, and later co-directed the American remake Apartment 1303 3D (2011) starring Mischa Barton. In 2011, he directed the acclaimed documentary El Medico: The Cubaton Story, which won Best Documentary at the New York International Latino Film Festival and received the HBO Prize. The film was showcased at numerous prestigious festivals worldwide.
Fridell has directed and produced several successful television projects, including the 2014 SVT drama Daddy's Girl, the C More original True Crime series Svartenbrandt (2019), the SVT documentaries Blackout (2021) and Versace (2021), the Congo-based documentary Panzi Hospital (2021), and the TV series 100 Percent (2021), Domen (2022), and Flying Souls (2023-24).
His novels Sökarna, 30th of November, and Svartenbrandt have all been adapted for film or television. His 2023 biography One Word for Blood, about Somali poet Faysa Idle, has been optioned for film and is set to premiere as a stage production at the Norwegian National Theatre in 2025. His crime novel series The Witch (2025) is currently in development as a TV series, and his forthcoming works—the biographies Gängledarens arv (2025) and Queen of Trash (2026), as well as the crime series Gangster Anonymous (2024)—have already been sold to multiple countries.
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