FLX - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Acting Head of Programs Drama
Job Titles:
- Co - Owner
- Creative Director
- Director
- Founder
Felix Herngren is a Swedish filmmaker and founder of FLX, one of Scandinavia's fastest growing production companies. He is behind some of Sweden's most well known series such as Solsidan (currently in season 8) and Bonusfamiljen (currently in season 4 and a feature film), and features such as The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Solsidan The Movie and Day by Day.
Felix breakthrough came with series SMASH in the 1990s, and later in the 90ties with characters Papi Raul, Dan Bäckman and Tim Hibbins that became Swedish cult icons. In 1999, together with Fredrik Lindström, he made his feature debut with comedy Adult Behavior, in which he also acted. His second feature, comedy Every Other Week, was released in 2006, a film he wrote, directed and acted in together with Hannes Holm, Hans Ingemansson and brother Måns Herngren.
In 2010, endlessly popular TV-series Solsidan premiered in Sweden. The series had the broadcasters highest viewing of the decade and won multiple awards. Season 8 is set to premiere in 2023. In 2013, the feature adaptation of bestselling novel The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, which Felix wrote and directed, premiered Christmas Day in Scandinavia, and is one of the all-time highest grossing films in Sweden.
In 2015, Pontus Edgren and SF Studios joined FLX, and became the first Swedish production company to produce a Swedish Netflix Original. Since then Felix has directed and conceptualized series such as Jana - Marked for life, The Simple Heist, Happy at Sea and Second Ride, and features such as sequel The 101-Year Old Man Who Skipped the Bill and Disappeared, Day by Day and Long live the Bonus family.
Job Titles:
- Head of Development and Programs Comedy
Joel Marklund is Sweden's most award-winning sports photographer. He's the Chief Photographer of Bildbyrån, the nation's nr 1 sports photo agency, and is based in both Manhattan, New York and Stockholm. He has covered numerous international sports events around the world, among them the FIFA World Cup and six Olympic Games.
He works regularly as an official photographer for the International Olympic Committee and the world's most prestigious tennis tournament, Wimbledon. Since 2006 he's a Nikon Europe Ambassador. Joel is a certified diver and one of few photographers in the world that from year to year manage underwater cameras at Olympic Games and World Championships.
Being an expert in adapting to different situations and getting the shot in one take Joel shoots pictures in available light, advanced studio light setting or even totally silent, right next to the film camera. He also works on longer documentary projects and contemporary stories.
Job Titles:
- Head of Development and Programs Non Scripted TV
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- CEO at FLX After Nine Years As Head of Business Affairs
Job Titles:
- Acting Head of Development Drama
Martin Persson left southern Sweden as a 19-year-old and slid straight into the television industry. After more than a decade as a creator in entertainment television he begun writing and directing. He started off with the comedy drama Blomstertid for TV4, which became the first Swedish scripted format ever to be adapted for an American network. He then continued his directing career with a feature film, several award-winning TV series and roughly three hundred commercials. Among the TV series are The Bonus Family, Andra Åket and Äntligen, SVT's Christmas drama for 2022. Martin has won the Swedish TV award Kristallen six times and made a name for himself by ingeniously navigating between laughter and well- calibrated emotional drama. Perhaps it's the fact that he has sung and played several instruments since a young age that has given him the musical sense for tempo and timing that often permeates his productions.
Job Titles:
- Head of Commercials & Branded Content
Job Titles:
- Director
- Actor and Director
Tova Magnusson, actor and director, started her acting career in the early 90s when she filled in for an actor who'd literally broken a leg. She's been killing it ever since. She's directed the long-running soap opera Rederiet, Gynekologen in Askim, the feature film Four More Years and the television series Det mest förbjudna. She is particularly skilled at getting to the heart of characters and coaxing nuanced performances out of practically nothing. Tova has two Guldbagge Award nominations to her name. We also had the pleasure of seeing Tova in front of the camera in both Vår tid är nu/Our Time is Now and Gråzon/Grey Zone.