Göran Olsson

Göran Hugo Wilhelm Olsson (born 20 September 1965) is a Swedish film director, documentarist and screenwriter.

Born in Lund, Olsson studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm.[ 1] He started his career working for Sveriges Television as a documentarist.[ 2] He made his film debut in 1998 with Fuck You, Fuck You Very Much.[ 1]

Olsson's 2011 documentary film The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 premiered at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival and was later screened at the 27th Sundance Film Festival.[ 3] [ 4] [ 5] His following documentary film Concerning Violence premiered in-competition in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at 2014 Sundance Film Festival,[ 6] and was screened at 64th Berlin International Film Festival, in which it was awarded the Cinema Fairbindet Prize.[ 7] The film also won the Guldbagge Award for best documentary.[ 8]

In 2018, Olsson directed That Summer, a portrait of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale featuring some 1972 lost footage by Lee Radziwill predating the 1975 documentary Grey Gardens.[ 9] [ 10] The film premiered at the 68th Berlin Festival.[ 11] In 2024, Olsson's documentary film Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 premiered out of competition at the 81st Venice International Film Festival.[ 12] [ 13]