Jac Rytterholm
- Actor
- Producer
Jac Rytterholm was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1970. Independent film producer and CEO/Founder of Filmalize International. Editor in Chief of the well renowned film magazine SHOCK!, a movie magazine in Scandinavia in the 90's.
Jac has been a huge film fan ever since childhood, growing up in Stockholm watching old classics on TV - especially the work of his favorite director Alfred Hitchcock - while he was also going to the cinema theatres watching Star Wars and James Bond. The huge impact of all of this made him want to do something special too. At the age of 12 he started acting, writing and directing his own amateur movies with a Super 8 camera; heavily inspired by a TV documentary at the time about Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Harrison Ford during the making of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981) where they showed all the work behind the camera.
At the age of 19 he was offered to write (uncredited) professional screenplays for low budget B-action movies for the international market. A few years later he was invited to write some TV scripts for Sweden's most popular television drama series, "Rederiet".
In the late 1990's he formed Filmalize International, a movie production company where he was trying to do something new for being a Swedish company. Having the ambition of making English-spoken movies for the international market with the then brand new technology of digital film (almost unheard of in Sweden at the time) but unfortunately he later found out this was of no interest in "Ingmar Bergman-land". He was being told that he was "thinking too much of profit rather than art" which he found out was a big no-no in Sweden where film was considered art - meaning that great reviews and awards were way more important than audience's showing up! (At the time most of the Swedish films produced in the 80's and 90's were financial flops - but saved by the Swedish tax system).
He realized he needed to find his financing from abroad instead of his own country. While this was about to go through - with him as writer/director/producer - around the same time both of his parents, his grandfather and older brother passed away in a short moment of time...forcing him to take a long break from all of his plans.
Instead of film he changed his focus to music, his other big interest.
As the lead singer, songwriter and co-founder of the heavy metal band Skellington Jac has released several well-received albums and EP's. Having a cult reputation the band is considered by many as one of Stockholm's best live acts!
Lately he has decided to get back into the film business and pick up his many ideas and plans from the early 2000's. Inspired by the fact that digital film technology is well-known today and needless to say it's more or less industry standard around the world. Feeling perhaps a bit like an early "misunderstood visionary digital film pioneer" in Sweden, he is now preparing to make new projects.
As always full of ideas and stories with the international market in mind.
Jac has been a huge film fan ever since childhood, growing up in Stockholm watching old classics on TV - especially the work of his favorite director Alfred Hitchcock - while he was also going to the cinema theatres watching Star Wars and James Bond. The huge impact of all of this made him want to do something special too. At the age of 12 he started acting, writing and directing his own amateur movies with a Super 8 camera; heavily inspired by a TV documentary at the time about Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Harrison Ford during the making of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981) where they showed all the work behind the camera.
At the age of 19 he was offered to write (uncredited) professional screenplays for low budget B-action movies for the international market. A few years later he was invited to write some TV scripts for Sweden's most popular television drama series, "Rederiet".
In the late 1990's he formed Filmalize International, a movie production company where he was trying to do something new for being a Swedish company. Having the ambition of making English-spoken movies for the international market with the then brand new technology of digital film (almost unheard of in Sweden at the time) but unfortunately he later found out this was of no interest in "Ingmar Bergman-land". He was being told that he was "thinking too much of profit rather than art" which he found out was a big no-no in Sweden where film was considered art - meaning that great reviews and awards were way more important than audience's showing up! (At the time most of the Swedish films produced in the 80's and 90's were financial flops - but saved by the Swedish tax system).
He realized he needed to find his financing from abroad instead of his own country. While this was about to go through - with him as writer/director/producer - around the same time both of his parents, his grandfather and older brother passed away in a short moment of time...forcing him to take a long break from all of his plans.
Instead of film he changed his focus to music, his other big interest.
As the lead singer, songwriter and co-founder of the heavy metal band Skellington Jac has released several well-received albums and EP's. Having a cult reputation the band is considered by many as one of Stockholm's best live acts!
Lately he has decided to get back into the film business and pick up his many ideas and plans from the early 2000's. Inspired by the fact that digital film technology is well-known today and needless to say it's more or less industry standard around the world. Feeling perhaps a bit like an early "misunderstood visionary digital film pioneer" in Sweden, he is now preparing to make new projects.
As always full of ideas and stories with the international market in mind.