Director reserch.

Background information.
Johan Renck, born 5 December 1966, used to be a Swedish musician (under the stage name Skatta Bo), music video director, and now film director.He has directed music videos for a number of artists including Kylie Minogue, All Saints, Madonna, Robbie Williams, The Libertines, Suede, New Order, Beyoncé Knowles and Bat for Lashes. He has become one of the most respected and sought after directors of commercials and music videos today.

Bat for Lashes- Daniel


Music Career
Stakka Bo scored a hit single in 1993/1994 with the song "Here We Go". This song has been featured on an episode of Beavis and Butt-Head with Beavis stating he thinks "Ace of Base sucks." "Here We Go", was also featured in the movie, Never Been Kissed; in the video game UEFA Euro 2004 and the film, Alien Autops



Directing Career
His directing career started in 1992 when he joined the production company Mekano Film and Television in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1994 he left Mekano to join forces with childhood friend director Jonas Åkerlund. They established a new production company, Renck Åkerlund Films, which immediately became one of the leaders of its kind in Sweden. During the same time he worked with his music project, Stakka Bo, with big success and a lot of his time was occupied by the music career. In 1997 he started to work as a director full time and quickly became a well-known name worldwide and in 1999 he was working with Madonna among others.

Downloading Nancy.
Johan just finished his feature film "Downloading Nancy", starring Maria Bello, Jason Patric, Rufus Sewell, Amy Brenneman among others.
The film has its world premiere in the 2008 Sundance Festival where it also is competing in the Dramatic Competition picked out of thousands of submissions.

Trailer for Downloading Nancy.


Sick of her life, housewife Nancy just wants it to be over and done with, but rather than kill herself, she hires a stranger from the Internet to do the job for her. But fate takes a strange turn when she meets her killer and the two fall in love. Of course, Nancy realizes that love and murder do not naturally go hand in hand.

Some comercials.



In 2007 Johans short film 'Cow',for SOS Live Earth, was nominated in Eurobest and in Epica Awards where it won the Bronze price. This video has also been stated to be 'intence' and 'brilliant' to say a few, by the many youtube users who have seen it. After this commercial was relesed Johan Renck was listed as the 25th most rewarded director of commercials in The Gunn Report.



The above video is a his campaing he did for Karl Lager for H&M which he collected a Silver Lion for. This film also awarded Grand Prix in Eurobest and a Gold in Epica.

Some still images.

Awards and responces.

He has achieved prestigious nominations and awards for his work, such as MTV award nominations to his music videos to Madonna and Beyoncé and two Cannes Bronze Lions for the Nike commercial "Racing Marion". In 2005 he won an award for best video in MVPA and was nominated in several categories in CAD for his music video for The Streets. In 2006, again he had several MVPA nominations, this time for his videos for Madonna's "Hung Up" and for Robbie Williams "Trippin".