Producer and Director CV

Producer, Writer and Director for Film, TV, Theatre and Virtual Reality. Director and Story Designer both in VR – film and in VR – 3d/animation.

2024 Director, and Script supervisor of 20 educational VR-films with in healt care – to put the care givers in the shoes of the caretekers. Produced by the Virtual Reality production company VIROTEA.

2023 Co-producer of Throughout Time (Genom alla tider) with Producer Birgitta Liljedahl and Geozone AB, and director.

2022 Producer, writer and director of the multitrack script an interactive film Who’s the dork. The Modern Theatres first interactive film.

2021 The awardwinning film We are Family (2020) filmed in Copenhagen and Iceland. The film has won 4 festivals and made it to the top in 4. Latest win in September 2022 at The broad humor festival in Los Angeles.  Now in development for becoming a TV series.

2019 – 2020

VR FILM  (2020) Creative director of a serious game with educational VR film for a big helporganisation. Director of three VR films about cultural clashes between people in the innovation industry, when implementing their innovations i thir world countries.

FILM We are Family (2019/2020) Filmed in Copenhagen and in Iceland, a kind of teaser for the feature, but with a full story for the short format (15 minutes). The film already made it to the top in four festivals and won in three of them for Best Dramedy.

FILM, TV  IN DEVELOPMENT 2020

We are family Mini series with mentoring by Screenwriter Alvaro Rodriguez.
Finding your way home (Swedish TV series, int. co-production) TV series with Director Richard Jarnhed.

FILM, TV IN PRODUCTION 2019

We are Family a short filmed at Iceland and in Copenhagen, made as a pilot/trailer for the feature. It was shown at The PRODS Live Score Festival Stockholm and won the prize for best composition! Also won at Los Angeles Film Festival 2019.

Virtual Reality Jannike Grut designed and directed several VR films with actors staging specific challenges for innovators going to countries in conflict areas. The pilot project is own by the Swedish help orginazation SIDA and the concept will be taken over by UN during 2021/22.

VR IN DEVELOPMENT and IN PRODUCTION

The MAKE HAPPY series (Dogoodgames)
A trilogy of 5-10 min long Stories | Empathy games about bullying in school.

The players mission in each game, is to make your alienated and sad schoolmate happy, by taking certain actions. Then you both fly high, together through space, and become happy! 

Produced in UNITY for Samsung GEAR in VR/3dwith 3d artist Johan Ohlson, Studio-e

FILM, TV EARLIER PRODUCTIONS
Welcome to our seven years itch aka Välkommen till vår sjuårskris. A drama documentary. Feature, 72 min, and a TV film, 58 min. Co-produced with Swedish and Danish National TV.   About a crisis in a love couple’s relationship, and about their desperate wish to save their relation through investigating what a seven year crisis really is.

LORRY  Scriptwriter for hugely successful TV comedy show, on Swedish National TV.

THEATRE PRODUCTIONS
Harriet L. (Agneta Elers Jarleman)
Nattsystrar (Marianne Goldman)
Café Problem (co-production) (Ulla Kassius, Marianne Goldman)
Von Jönsson Får Fisk – a Criminal Comedy (Jan Sigurd, Pelle Öhlund)
De svagas Estrad (Jannike Grut)
Gudars Lek (Tony Grahn, Jannike Grut)
Babe Janice (Alter Ego, stand up, hundreds of performances by Jannike Grut)

RADIO PRODUCTIONS
Glädjetåget, Writer, producer and actress in this hugely successful comedy show, with Swedish renown Robert Gustavsson. Swedish National Broadcasting, SR, P3 – for 2 years.
Sketches for Flipper, Musik å sånt, Malmö Radiohus.
Satirical chronicles from Denmark for Finnish Broadcast Company Radio Yle.

BACKGROUND Film, VR, Theatre

EARLY FILM SCRIPTS, and co-productions
Alexander (Award winning short) with Mårten Nilsson
Ensam | LONELY (Experimental short. Selected to Arnheim festival, in The Netherlands) with Mårten Nilsson
Next stop Sovjet (Short, shown at Folkets bio) with Mårten Nilsson
Änglaspel (Novel film, produced at SFI) with Michael Westerlund
Sagan om Anton Antonsson (Pilot) with cinematographer Marek Wieser

EARLIER VR PRODUCTIONS
2014  Oculus Transformer – to walk in someone elses shoes a prototype.
A story driven Virtual reality-experience in the meeting point between Serious Games and Performance Art and Film. Produced in UNITY for Oculus Rift.

EARLY THEATRE PIECES
Travelers Lund (short)
Feminist festival Café 44 (short)
Tjejerna i lumpen (short)