MATS STRANDBERG
AWARDS
2025 – Méliès d’Argent, Best European Fantastic Feature, Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, Hemmet.
2025 – Creative Courage Award, Göteborgs Internationella Film Festival, Färjan.
2025 – Guldbagge, Best Supporting Actor, Guldbaggegalan, Hemmet.
2024 – Guldbagge, Best Make-up, Guldbaggegalan, Konferensen.
NOMINATIONS
2025 – New Visions Award, Best Motion Picture, Sitges – Catalonian International Film Festival, Hemmet.
2025 – Narcisse Award, Best Feature Film, Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival, Hemmet.
2025 – Octopus d’Or, Best International Feature Film, Festival Européen du Film Fantastique de Strasbourg (FEFFS), Hemmet.
2025 – Méliès d’Argent, Best European Fantastic Feature Film, Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, Hemmet.
2025 – Fear Good Award, Fear Good Award, Fantasy Filmfest, Hemmet.
2025 – Fresh Blood Award, Fresh Blood Award, Fantasy Filmfest, Hemmet.
2024 – Guldbagge, Best Visual Effects, Guldbaggegalan, Konferensen.
2016 – Guldbagge, Best Make-up, Guldbaggegalan, Cirkeln.
2016 – Guldbagge, Best Music, Guldbaggegalan, Cirkeln.
2016 – Guldbagge, Best Visual Effects, Guldbaggegalan, Cirkeln.
As an author, Mats has always been inspired by movies and television, which is evident in his way of building characters, telling stories and writing dialogue. Therefore, it is no surprise that his fiction is so well suited to being adapted into just that, movies and television.
The first of Mats novels to become film was The Circle (Cirkeln), which he co-wrote with Sara B. Elfgren. It became a major success, being nominated for three Guldbagge’s (Swedish Oscars) and paving the way for an upcoming generation of Swedish actors.
The second of Mats books to be adapted was The Conference (Konferensen), who arguably was an even bigger hit. After it premiered, on Friday the 13th 2023, it was the most streamed film on Netflix worldwide for four days running.
The third adaptation of Mats books was Blood Cruise (Färjan), a vampire tv-series produced by Northern Fable and Imaginarium UK. It was released in Sweden in September 2025 (SVT) and will be distributed internationally by CBS.
The latest adaptation of a Strandberg-book was The Home (Hemmet), which premiered in Swedish cinemas at Halloween 2025. Previous to that, it had its world premiere at the midnight section of South by Southwest. It won Silver for Best European Film at Brussels, and was nominated for best picture at Sitges, as well as being nominated for one Swedish Oscar.
For Mats, it is important to be involved in the process, either as a script writer or as an executive producer.
Apart from these films, Mats has written one play, The Most Dangerous Man in Europe (Salaligan), who received glorious reviews, and his children’s book series Frank the Monster was adapted into a play at Junibacken (The Astrid Lindgren museum in Stockholm).
FILM
2025 – The Home (Hemmet), feature film, [sic film], adaptation of book by Mats Strandberg, screenwriter.
2023 – The Conference (Konferensen), original feature Netflix film, adaptation of book by Mats Strandberg, manuscript consultant and Executive Producer.
2015 – The Circle (Cirkeln), feature film, Adaptation of book by Mats Strandberg and Sara B. Elfgren, Executive producer.
TV
2025 – The Cruise (Färjan), TV series, Northern Fable and Imaginarium for SVT & CBS, adaptation of book by Mats Strandberg, head writer.
THEATRE
2023 – The Most Dangerous Man in Europe (Salaligan), original play, manuscript, with Mikael Kallin.
2019 – Frank the Monster (Monstret Frank), musical at Junibacken, Sweden, original story for theatre adaptation.