Behind the Scenes with Millennium Trilogy Producer Sören Stærmose with Moderator Mikael Södersten. (Immediately following Maria Wern: May Death Sleep/Må döden sova)
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Sören Stærmose, producer of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy film adaptations, analyze the Swedish version and American adaptation of the film with moderator Mikael Södersten, as well as discussing the popularity of Nordic crime series and other authors he collaborates with at Yellow Bird production.

About the producer:
Søren Stærmose is the producer behind Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy turning into a 3 feature-film franchise – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo/Män som hatar kvinnor; The Girl Who Played with Fire/Flickan som lekte med elden; and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest/Luftslottet som sprängdes – as well as a high profile TV mini-series based on the books.

Stærmose received an MA in Literature & Film from Copenhagen University and began producing documentaries and short films in 1985. He moved into feature films and TV fiction in 1988, where his most famous titles are the suite of 3 feature films and a TV mini-series based on the internationally famous Swedish detective authors Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö and their protagonist Martin Beck, 3 feature films and TV mini-series based on the internationally known Swedish author Henning Mankell and his protagonist Kurt Wallander.

About the moderator:
Mikael Södersten is a dramaturg and script doctor to Scandinavia's leading directors and producers. He’s worked on over 40 films, most recently with director Tomas Alfredson on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Södersten also consulted closely to best-selling novelist Henning Mankell (Wallander) on the upcoming Swedish TV mini-series on the life of Ingmar Bergman. As Senior Script Consultant to the Swedish Film Institute, he developed over 25 films, including Grand Jury prizewinners at Tribeca and Sundance. As a filmmaker, he’s made award-winning shorts and two novella-length films broadcast on Swedish TV: Pass, with Michael Nyqvist (Millennium trilogy) and Fissura, which he wrote and directed, and was hailed as “the best Swedish short of the decade.” Södersten studied Film Theory at Stockholm University and has a BA from Harvard University.