Kalle Fransson

Kalle Fransson is a screenwriter and director who graduated from Stockholm University of the Arts, Alma education and Biskops Arnö. In storytelling, he loves escapism and dreaming away to elevated worlds. He holds long-form narratives, big emotions, stories that touch on injustice, nostalgia and nonsense close to his heart.

He is currently developing the feature film Grottan (The Cave), a puppet adventure for children that explores grief, betrayal, and acceptance. It tells the story of two siblings whose father is moving back to Japan with his new wife. Convinced that their stepmother has bewitched their father, the children venture into a magical cave world to save him. Grottan is a fairytale about children’s desire to rescue their father from disappearing — a tale about the fear of being abandoned.

He is also working on the short film Pianot (The Piano), about a young adult who faces a life crisis just after moving out and starting at a prestigious school, but finds himself in a piano in the garbage room.

With inspiration from, among others, Hasse and Tage, Grotesco, various junk TV (and other references) from the turn of the millennium as well as his own miserable life, he also works on the more light-hearted TV series Kartellen (The Cartel), follows three pre-teens who, upon learning that their school will become a sugar-free zone, take matters into their own hands and start a sugar cartel. It leads to sugar-high and corrupt kids, drunk on power, who end up facing off against an iron lady-like principal determined to eradicate the school’s sugar problem at any cost.