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]
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