Christoffer Sandler
Awards
2022 – Outstanding first feature, Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ Film festival, Så jävla easy going (So Damn Easy Going)
2022 – Best first feature, Out on film, Atlanta, US, Så jävla easy going (So Damn Easy Going)
2022 – ECHT award, Braunschweig international Film Festival, Så jävla easy going (So Damn Easy Going)
2022 – Jury Award, Club of festivals youth, International Film Festival for children and young audience SCHLINGEL, Så jävla easy going (So Damn Easy Going)
2022 – The Jugendfilmpreis, Kirchliches Filmfestival Recklinghausen, Så jävla easy going (So Damn Easy Going)
2018 – Best idea for a scripted show, Riagalan, Sjukt Oklar (Ellen & Vera)
2018 – Best Swedish tv-show, MovieZine, Sjukt Oklar (Ellen & Vera)
Nominations
2022 – Best nordic film, Gothenborg International Film Festival, Så jävla easy going (So Damn Easy Going)
2022 – Best nordic film, Dragon Awards, Så jävla easy going (So Damn Easy Going)
2022 – Best feature film, Seattle International Film Festival, Så jävla easy going (So Damn Easy Going)
Apart from writing, Christoffer Sandler has worked a lot as a director, which has expanded his creativity and shaped his way of writing. He has a talent for transforming an image or a scene from an idea into text, which makes for very compelling manuscripts. Christoffer’s speciality lies in portraying people that the viewers can relate to, whether it is through their flaws or strengths. Over the years, he has worked in a lot of different genres, formats and constellations, always bringing his personal touch and eye for quality to the projects.
In the beginning of his career, Christoffer worked on a lot of shows with a shorter format, that were aired on SVT (Swedish National Television). This was a great way of finding his voice and style, both as a writer and director, through creative experiments that got high praise from the audience. Amongst these shows were Sjukt Oklar (Ellen & Vera), that he wrote and directed, which was voted as the best tv-show of 2018 by the site MovieZine.
In these years, Christoffer also started working with Thobias Hoffmén, a collaboration that is still ongoing, and that they both wish to continue. Their different personalities and strenghts complement each other in a way that reflects in the stories they write… and they have a lot of fun doing it.
When it comes to genre, audience and format, Christoffer likes to variate. The most important thing for him is to capture the everyday human experience, no matter the story. He is drawn to writing about outsiders that feel as if they are not enough for the world they live in, where he likes to explore the grand and spectacular in a person’s inner journey.
One striking example of this is the first feature film that he wrote and directed, Så jävla easy going (So Damn Easy Going), a multi-layered portrait of what it is like to be young in Sweden today. The film won lots of awards and opened the Gothenborg International Film Festival in 2022.
Filmography
2023 – Håkan Bråkan 2 (Håkan the Troublemaker 2), feature film, Unlimited stories, co-writer
2022 – Så jävla easy going (So Damn Easy Going), feature film, Cinecic film, writer & director
2019 – Sune – uppdrag midsommar (Sune – operation midsummer), feature film, Unlimited stories, co-writer
2019 – Försvarsmakten (The Swedish Armed Forces), commercial, FLX & Crazy Pitctures, writer & director
2019 – Ambassadören (The Ambassador), tv-series, Brain Academy for Viaplay, episode writer – with Thobias Hoffmén
2018 – Sjukt Oklar (Ellen & Vera), tv-series, Splay One for SVT, writer & director
2017 – Skitlycklig (Dumped), tv-series, Art & Bob for SVT, writer – with Thobias Hoffmén
2016 – Insiativet (The initiative), tv-series, Art & Bob for SVT, director & writer – with Thobias Hoffmén
2014-2015 – Konsten att få sin mamma att gråta (The Art of Making your Mother cry), tv-series (season 1 & 2), Art & Bob for SVT, writer & director
2013 – Semi, sketch-series, Art & Bob for SVT, writer & director