Biography

Magnus Gertten was born and raised in Malmö, Sweden. 20 years old he became a journalist, working for newspapers, Swedish National Radio and later Swedish National Television, SVT, for many years. Several of these years he was specialised as a music journalist.

In 1998 he left SVT and created the production company Auto Images together with director and cinematographer Stefan Berg, focusing on making documentaries. Today he runs the company together with Danish producer Ove Rishøj Jensen. In September 2023 Auto Images celebrated 25 years in the film business.

Magnus Gertten has been working mainly as a director, but has also as a producer, writer and a co-producer in international co-productions. His first feature length documentary - the soccer doc Blådårar (English: True Blue) - was released in December 1998. The film was screened at Swedish cinemas and was co-directed with his brother Fredrik Gertten and Stefan Berg. Since then Magnus Gertten has directed 13 feature length documentaries, several of them winning international film festival awards. Nelly & Nadine premiered at the Berlinale in 2022, where it won the Teddy Award. It has since been screened at more than 120 film festival and won 23 awards.

Magnus Gertten's documentaries are character-driven, often made in an intimate style and with a powerful emotional narrative. Since 1998, he has made 12 feature length documentaries for international tv channels and film festivals.
- IMDb mini biography by: Magnus Gertten