Tobias Lindholm

Tobias Lindholm is considered by many to be the ‘golden boy’ of Danish film and television. Five years after graduating from the National Danish Film School, Lindholm’s capacity for storytelling and his ability to captivate an audience has already generated numerous awards and firmly established him as one of the driving forces in the Danish industry.

Lindholm started out writing several episodes of DR’s drama series, SOMMER in 2007. In 2008‐2011 Lindholm co‐wrote BORGEN, which was seen by 1,5 million Danish viewers every Sunday and is now an international success. He debuted as a screenwriter with Thomas Vinterberg’s SUBMARINO (2010), which went on to receive the Nordic Council’s Film Award.

Tobias Lindholm had his own debut as film director in 2010, when, with Michael Noer, he wrote and directed the prison drama R. The filming took place in the state prison at Horsens and garnered a great deal of recognition for authenticity and its unique use of reality and realism in a fictional story. The film went on to win several awards including eight Robert Awards and the FIPRESCI‐prize at the Gothenburg Film Festival 2010. In addition, Lindholm received a special Bodil award for the SUBMARINO and R scripts.

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