Born in 1938 in Nysve, Jämtland. He now works and lives in Bahia, Brazil. He is one of Sweden´s premier documentary filmmakers. Winner of the Widerberg scholarship in 2000. Since the early 60´s he made approximately 300 films. Some of them as an employee for the former Swedish Radio TV. In 1969 he was dismissed by political reasons. Since then he works as an independent filmmaker.