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FREETOWN FILMS
FreetownFilms is a Swedish production company founded in 2011 by director, producer, and journalist Viktor Nordenskiöld. With a strong international outlook, the company creates documentaries for cinema and television that combine journalistic depth with cinematic storytelling. Our films are character-driven and emotionally resonant, offering audiences both connection and reflection.
In addition to independent productions, FreetownFilms collaborates with NGOs and institutions such as UNHCR, WWF, and SPL, creating films that merge artistic ambition with pressing global issues.
Over the years, FreetownFilms has worked with a wide network of creative collaborators, including producers, editors, cinematographers, composers, broadcasters, and cultural institutions across Europe.
Viktor Nordenskiöld
Viktor Nordenskiöld is an award winning Swedish director, producer and journalist. He has since 2001 made films for Swedish TV, his short Out of This World premiered at Berlinale (2014), his first released feature The Feminister premiered at CPH DOX (2019), the second Behind The Swedish Model at GIFF Gothenburg Film Festival and CPH:DOX (2022), and third Hemligheten at Tempo FF (2023). The EUkrainian premiered at CPH:DOX, competing for the F:ACT Award, which celebrates engaged cinematic storytelling of contemporary and political urgency.
Viktor has a Master of Arts (MA) from Stockholm University of the Dramatic Arts (2017) and a Bachelor (BJ) in Journalism from The Netherlands and Denmark (1994). He has been a member of the Artistic Commission for Film at The Swedish Arts Grants Committee (2020-2023).
FILMOGRAPHY
THE EUKRAINIAN, documentary, director & producer, 2025
THE SECRET / HEMLIGHETEN, documentary, director, 2023
BEHIND THE SWEDISH MODEL, documentary, director, 2022
THE FEMINISTER / UTRIKESMINISTERN, documentary, director, 2019
OUT OF THAT WORLD, short documentary, director, 2017
OUT OF THIS WORLD, short documentary, director, 2014
MISSION: SAVE THE OCEAN, National Geographic documentary series, 3*28 min, editor, producer & field producer, 2012-2013
TOMORROW, short documentary, director, 2011
DOM KALLAS RASISTER (THEY ARE CALLED RACISTS), TV4 documentary, producer, 2010
I WAS WORTH 50 SHEEP, documentary by Nima Sarvestani, assistant producer, 2010
EN SOM ALLA - ALLA SOM EN (ONE LIKE ALL‚ ALL LIKE ONE), documentary, director & producer, 2008
SVENSKA SOLDATFABRIKEN (SWEDISH SOLDIERS FACTORY), documentary, director & producer, 2008
KANTULES SKUGGA (THE SHADOW OF KANTULE), SVT documentary, director 2006
IDOLS AGAINST ALL ODDS, TV4 documentary, director, 2007
FREDLÖS (OUTLAW / GIRLS IN JEOPARDY), TV4 documentary, director, 2001

Collaborators
Producers & Co-Producers
Anita Rehoff-Larsen – Co-producer, Sant & Usant AS, The EUkrainian
Ashley J. Smith –Creative Producer, Lust for Life
Christian Popp – Producer, The EUkrainian
Dirk Manthey –Producer, Lust for Life
Dylan Williams – Producer, The EUkrainian; Development Producer & Drama Consultant, Hemligheten; Producer, Behind the Swedish Model
Helen Prestgard – Line Producer, Sant & Usant AS, The EUkrainian
Karin Ekberg – Development Producer, Hemligheten
Malcolm Dixelius – Co-Producer, Hemligheten, Producer, The EUkrainian
Mario Adamson –Creative Producer, Lust for Life
Olha Beskhmelnytsina – Producer, The EUkrainian
Per Lindström –Producer
Sergio Ghizzardi – Producer, The EUkrainian
Stina Gardell - Producer
Tone Grøttjord-Glenne – Co-producer, Sant & Usant AS, The EUkrainian, Behind the Swedish Model
Tom Brennan – Producer / Production Support
Zara Arrehed – Assistant Producer / Production Support, The EUkrainian
Editors
Audrey Maurion – Editor, The EUkrainian
Britta Norell – Editor, The Feminister
Eva Tillberg – Editor, The Feminister
Jakob Åsell – Editor, The Feminister
Lina Mannheimer – Edit Consultant, Hemligheten
Matti Kentrschynskyi – Editor, The Feminister
Nils Nouchi – Editor, The EUkrainian, Behind the Swedish Model
Petter Brundell – Editor, The EUkrainian, Behind the Swedish Model
Simon Carlgren – Editor, The EUkrainian, Hemligheten, Behind the Swedish Model
Tell Aulin – Editor, The EUkrainian, Behind the Swedish Model
Tone Grøttjord-Glenne – Edit Consultant, The EUkrainian, Behind the Swedish Model
Yousra Said – Edit Consultant, Hemligheten
Cinematographers & Photography
Alain Fisch – Cinematographer, The EUkrainian
Andrii Kotliar– Cinematographer, The EUkrainian
Bo Landin – Cinematography Support
Denys Melnyk – Cinematographer, The EUkrainian
Erik Pauser – Additional Photography, The EUkrainian
Felicia Margineanu – Still Photographer (Director portrait), The EUkrainian
Ilja Yehorov – Cinematographer, The EUkrainian
Johannes Molin – Title Graphics, The EUkrainian
Niklas Panthell – Cinematographer, Gimbal Photography, The EUkrainian, Behind the Swedish Model
Patrice Michaux – Cinematographer, The EUkrainian
Serhiy Stetsenko – Cinematographer, The EUkrainian
Tim Ekendahl – Additional Photography, The EUkrainian
Viktor Nordenskiöld – Director of Photography, multiple films: The EUkrainian, Hemligheten, Behind the Swedish Model, The Feminister
Åke Bertil Johansson – Archive Photographer, Hemligheten
Music & Sound
Martin Landquist – Composer, The EUkrainian, The Feminister, Behind the Swedish Model
Adrian Souyris Strumse – Sound Effects Editor, The EUkrainian
Anna Nilsson – Dialogue Mixer, The EUkrainian
Fredrik Ståhlne – Sound Design, Hemligheten
Håkon Lammetun – Sound Design & Re-recording Mixer, The EUkrainian
Jonas Sjöberg – Sound Design, Hemligheten
Raf Keunen – Original Music, The EUkrainian
Thomas Résimont – Sound Design, The EUkrainian
Script & Drama Consultants
Åsa Blanck – Drama Consultant, Hemligheten
Kersti Grunditz Brennan – Drama Consultant, Hemligheten
Phil Jandalay – Drama Consultant, Hemligheten
Dylan Williams – Drama Consultant, Hemligheten
Nils-Thomas Andersson – FilmCentrum
Sofia Klemming Nordenskiöld
Stig Hansén
Tom Brennan
Ulla Nordenskiöld
Research, Translation & Archive
Ellenor Larsson – Translator, Svensk Medietext, The EUkrainian
Sara Henriksson – Log / Archive, The EUkrainian, Hemligheten
Sofi Helleday – Archive Log, Hemligheten
Tomas Lindblad – Researcher, The EUkrainian
Design, Graphics & Postproduction
David Ricci – Film Graphics, The EUkrainian
Fredrik Harreschou – Color Grader, The EUkrainian
Jens Valberg – Online Editor, The EUkrainian
Miimi Muskos (Vårsön) – Grade / Colorist, Hemligheten
Simon Carlgren – Online Editor, The EUkrainian
Tone Grøttjord-Glenne – Edit Consultant, The EUkrainian, Behind the Swedish Model
Broadcasters & Commissioning Editors
Asta Dalman – Executive Producer, SVT, The EUkrainian, Behind the Swedish Model
Charlotte Hellström – SVT, Hemligheten
Fredrik Færden – Acquisitions Executive, NRK, The EUkrainian
Ida Høyer Bom – Commissioning Editor, DR2, The EUkrainian
Film Institutes & Funds
Swedish Film Institute (via Anna Weiss, Jenny Örnborn, Klara Nilsson Grunning) – The EUkrainian
Fritt Ord Foundation (Bente Roalsvig) – The EUkrainian
Norwegian Film Institute (Eirin Gjørv) – The EUkrainian
Nordisk Film & TV Fond (Karolina Lidin, Lise Lowholm) – The EUkrainian
Swedish Film Institute Festival Manager (Sara Rüster) – The EUkrainian
Sales, Distribution & Impact
Autlook Film Sales – World Sales, The EUkrainian, The Feminister, Behind the Swedish Model
Anna Dziapshipa – Distribution, Georgia
Karina Bernauer – Impact & Distribution
Special Thanks & Collaborators
Antonio Rosso Merenda
Bo Landin
Britta Norell
Claes Nordenskiöld
Edvard Stockstad
Emil Engerdahl
Erik Gandini
Eva Tillberg
Gustaf Nordenskiöld
Ingela Bendt
Jacob Solgren
Johan Palmgren
Johan Söderberg
Jonathan Ewing
Katherine Yan
Kattis Hellberg
Matti Kentrschynskyi
Nils Nordenskiöld
Nils-Thomas Andersson – FilmCentrum
Sofia Klemming Nordenskiöld
Stig Hansén
Tom Brennan
Ulla Nordenskiöld