Biography
Lars Lidström was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, but grew up in Sweden. He attended media oriented schools as a teenager, Rudbecksgymnasiet in Örebro, Sweden, and Booker T. Washington High in Shreveport, USA (as a part of the Magnet Program). He went on to courses in Television at Kalix Folkhögskola, Sweden and Participatory Video at Biskops Arnö - Nordens Folkhögskola, Sweden. During the Participatory Video course, he visited the Ladakh region in northern India, where he stayed at the "Students' Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh" (SECMOL), a local NGO and helped train their media staff, among these were Stanzin Dorjai Gya, who has became a successful documentary filmmaker, filmmaker and performer Tsewang Paldan, and filmmaker and video producer Diskit Spaldon. After the course ended, he returned to Ladakh several times.
He started his professional career in 2004 as an audio technician and video editor at Mård Medialab, a small production company in Örebro, Sweden. But left the company after only three years to work in the telecommunications industry. During that time, he continued to work on minor video projects, mostly on volunteer basis, primarily at Studio14, an small media oriented Nonprofit in Sweden, or at SECMOL. He also continued to work as a freelancer.
In his early thirties, he married award winning Indian social entrepreneur, Thinlas Chorol and moved to Ladakh where he creates online content, primarily for Youtube, and occasionally works as a director, producer, writer or editor. He does occasionally return to Sweden and then often works on Studio14 projects.
