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FRIDA (8) is longing to meet her father and lately she strongly believes he has to be an alien. She tries to get contact through an old radio in the goat shed, on the farm where she lives with her mother, but to no use. But one day a funny looking guy GUY shows up and Frida soon realises he is her father. Now she not only needs to convince her mother, but also hide him from an alien hunter.
My dad’s an alien! is a 14 min short film for kids and YleFem’s contribution to the EBU children’s drama 2021.
Original language: Swedish
Written and directed by Elin Grönblom
Photography by Rasmus Tåg
Produced by Eva Lingon
A fun short film shot in a few hours in a hotel room in Stockholm. Original language Swedish
Directed by Elin Grönblom
Written by Josefin Sonck
Photography by Magnus Selander
ESTHER (17) is invisible, to her classmates, to her teachers, and mostly to all the boys. Her biggest wish, is not only to be seen, but to experience a hot and mature sexual relationship to meet her needs for closeness, sexual desires and fantasies. The somewhat naiv, many “balls” in the air, LINDA becomes her savour, when she takes on Esthers virginity issue. Everyone in high school has, or want to get laid, so this shouldn’t be a problem. But Esther’s clumsiness, insecurities and desperate need to fit in puts her in a lot of awkward situations. At the same time, an unexpected friendship grows between the girls, not without its own problems.
JAG KOMMER is a live action TV drama series for 16-25 year olds consisting of 8x14min TV episodes.
Original Language: Swedish
Commissioned by the National Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE, Finland and NRK, Norway. Premiered December 2020
Directed by Elin Grönblom
Written by Helmi Tolonen
Photography by Mimmo Hildén
Produced by Citizen Jane Productions
School is a zoo, and ATLAS (14) is trying to survive it like everybody else, but it doesn’t help that his best friend Elliot has moved across the globe. Atlas survives with his ironic humor, fun imagination and critical thinking, but constantly battles with his sensitive and insecure inner thoughts. And how does one know, when you are in love?
VIRAL GENIUSES is a live action TV drama series for 12- 15 year olds based on the book Zoo - Virala Genier by Kaj Korkea-aho and Ted Forsström.
Season 1: 12 x 10min/Premiered spring 2020 Season 2: 8 x 12min/Premiered spring 2021
Commissioned by the National Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE, Finland and SVT, Sweden.
Original Language: Swedish
Written and Directed by Elin Grönblom
Photography by Mimmo Hildén
Produced by Citizen Jane Productions
Premiered on YleFem, Finland, March 2020
13-year-old STEFFI has lost her best friend JULIA in a tragic death, and she needs to find her own way of moving on. During a summer of theatre, potential new friends, love and adventure Steffi starts communicating with her dead friend. But friendship has its challenges, even when death do you part.
STEFFI is a live action TV and Web drama series for 8-12-year olds consisting of 10x10min TV episodes, 15x youtube clips with her and Julia and an instagram account where you can follow Steffi alongside the show.
Original Language: Swedish
Commissioned by the National Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE, Finland and SVT, Sweden. Premiering spring 2018
Written and directed by Elin Grönblom
Photography by Marika Hill
Produced by Five Corners Production
Premiered on YLE (Finland) 1.6.2018
Sommarkollo is a web and TV drama series for 8-12 year olds where we follow five 12-year old kids during a weeklong summer camp. A Scandinavian summer filled with drama, love, disappointments, friends and adventure.
13x 9-12min TV episodes, 35x youtube videos and instagram.
Original language: Swedish
Commissioned by The National Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE, in co-production with SVT (Sweden), NRK (Norway), DR (Denmark). Aired spring 2017
Written and directed by Elin Grönblom
Photography by Johannes Östergård
Produced by Five Corners Productions
Fanny is a TV and Web drama series for 8-12-year olds where we follow 12-year old Fanny and the drama in her life.
28x 4-8min TV episodes, 40x youtube videos + instagram.
Original Language: Swedish
Aired on The National Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE 2014.
Directed by Elin Grönblom
Photography by Mikael Gustafsson
Produced by Svenska Yle
Fanny teaser
GANDHI is a goldfish with an attitude and a big dream; to one day live in the ocean. However, his dream becomes secondary when he discovers friendship with the struggling young musician RUFUS, but as Rufus gets distracted by his own career and their friendship slowly disappears Gandhi once again remembers his own dream.
Short film, 14min.
Original language: English
Thesis film 2011, New York Film Academy.
Written and directed by Elin Grönblom
Photography by Ezequiel Arribas
Produced by Amanda Tomasetti
You can learn so much from the older generation by listening and talking to them, and my grandfather can feel lonely just as much as I can, and having a cup of coffee at his kitchen table makes him so happy.
Still photography documentary, 5:30min, Arcada 2008
Original language: Swedish
Written and directed by Elin Grönblom
Photography by Johanna Brådd
Music Video for the winner of music competition for kids.
Music Video for the winner of a music competition for kids.
ELIN GRONBLOM
EDUCATION
New York Film Academy (New York & Los Angeles) 2009 - 2011
MFA in Filmmaking, with a focus on scriptwriting and directing
Arcada - University of Applied Sciences (Helsinki, Finland) 2004 – 2009
BA in Film and Television, with a major in scriptwriting and directing
FILMOGRAPHY
Bloodsuckers – Feature film, 90 min (under development with support from Moving Sweden).
writer/director/creator
Ett Lik i Garderoben – TV series, dark comedy 6x30min (under development with Yle and Söder Films)
writer/director
Vesta-Linnéa Season 2 – TV series 14 x 10min (produced by Långfilm Productions, airing on Yle 2023)
Co-writer
My dad’s an alien! – short film, 2021, 15min
writer/director. Produced by Eva Lingon for Yle
• Part of EBUs children’s drama 2021
• Winner at several film festivals, amongst others: winner of the Premio Citta di Fiorano award at Ennesimo Film Festival and official selection of Cinekid Film Festival 2022
Virala Genier 2 - TV series, 2021. 8 x 14min
writer/director. Produced by Citizen Jane Productions in association with YLEFEM and DR.
Jag Kommer - TV series, 2020. 8 x 14min.
director. Produced by Citizen Jane Productions in association with YLEFEM and NRK.
Virala Genier 1 - TV series, 2020. 12 x 10min.
writer/director. Produced by Citizen Jane Productions in association with YLEFEM and SVT.
Steffi – TV series, 2018. 10 x 12min series
writer/director/creator. Produced by Five Corners Productions in association with YLEFEM and SVT
Sommarkollo – TV series 2017. 13 x11min series.
writer/director/creator. Produced by Five Corners Production in association with YLEFEM, NRK, DR and SVT
Melodi Grand Prix – live TV show, 2014/2015/2016, YLEFEM
live show script writer and content director
Fanny – TV- and webb series, 2014, YLE. 28 x 4-9min series.
director/re-wrote the scripts
Goldfish Love – New York Film Academy (NYFA) thesis project, short film, 2011
writer/director
· BEST STUDENT COMEDY SHORT, The International Family Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2013
· BEST DIRECTOR SHORT FILM, Broad Humor Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2013
· Official Selection: Newport Beach Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2013. Holly Shorts Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2013. The European Independent Film Festival, Paris, 2012.
Mr Whiskers – NYFA first year thesis project, short film, 2010
writer/director
* BEST DRAMA SHORT at Atlanta Underground Film Festival, 2011
My Grandfather – ARCADA, still photography short documentary, 2008
writer/director/editor
* BEST sound design and 2nd place in the best short documentary category at the VERA film festival in Åland, Finland, 2009
BUU – klubben – Childrens’ TV show, 2008 – 2009
TV-host/writer
2023/2024 worked as script consultant and directing mentor for Filmskolan. A project working with middle school kids making their own short films.
2018 worked as directing mentor at Arcada - University of Applied Science