Jon Mankell

Birth : 1980-09-28, Norrköping, Östergötlands län, Sweden

History

Jon Karl Kristian Mankell, born September 28, 1980 in Norrköping's Sankt Olai parish in Östergötland County, is a Swedish film producer. Jon Mankell studied at Örebro University from 2002–2005. He was a producer at Yellow Bird 2005–2014 and has been active at Chimney since 2014. Among other things, he has worked with film productions from the Wallander series and the Millennium series. He has been a board member of Yellow Horse Film & TV AB and Palco Media AB since 2009. He is the son of the author Henning Mankell and Ulla Blom Ivarsson and the grandson of Ivar Mankell. He is cohabiting with Lina Jernström (born 1980) and has a daughter (born 2015).

Profile

Movies

Lamb

Executive Producer

An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected development and the prospects of a new family brings them much joy before ultimately destroying them.

Alice T.

Co-Producer

Alice, a buoyant and impertinent red-hair teenager is far from the charming little girl her mother adopted as she was unable to have a child of her own. Being an endless source of problems and affected by the specter of her mother’s disappointments, Alice acts with her back against the wall, forging lies and blurring lines between the fiction she designs for herself and the reality of her existence. Until her mother discovers she is pregnant.

Goliath

Producer

Goliat is set in a small industrial town somewhere in Sweden. When Roland is sentenced to prison, his son, 16-year old Kimmie, is expected to provide for the family by taking over his dad's criminal business. This is a task he's not ready for. The film's depicting a boy's brutal entry into adult life and examines aspects of social heritage and patriarchal structures, at a time when the welfare is declining and Sweden is at change.

The Wife

Executive Producer

A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

#will

Producer

A teenage boy with possible self-harm behavior is allowed to use the school auditorium alone to record a video but after strange events and threats he has to gain control of both his mind and own destiny.

Wallander 32 - The Sad Bird

Producer

When a restauranteur is abducted, Wallander's investigation leads him to suspect the Malmö police might be involved.

Wallander 31 - The Arsonist

Producer

When an arsonist is released from prison, the villagers do not want him anywhere near them. Soon they take matters into their hands and Wallander has to investigate whether their fear is justified.

Wallander 30 - The Loss

Producer

A young woman is found dead in Ystad. When the police begin the case, they are told that the woman came from Moldova and that she worked as a prostitute in Sweden. Kurt, who leads the case, decides to seek out the woman's family in Moldova. When he returns to Sweden, he is involved in a car accident and takes a leave of absence from work. Around the same time, Kurt finds where his forgetfulness comes from.

Wallander 29 - The Betrayal

Producer

A young student reports her mother missing. The next day, the mother's body is found buried in the sand close to the family's house.

Wallander 28 - Missing

Producer

A girl disappears on her way to school, and suspicion falls on her father who has been fighting for her custody. Wallander's investigation is helped when he visits a woman whom he had arrested when her own daughter disappeared.

Wallander 27 - The Troubled Man

Producer

Wallander has become a grandfather and is trying to seize the role as good as it goes because he wants to be closer to his daughter Linda and her family. When Linda's father-in-law mysteriously disappears, Wallander is drawn into the case that takes him back in time to the Cold War and the submarine violations in the Stockholm archipelago. At the same time, he's starting to suspect that something is not right with him...

Nobel's Last Will

Post-Production Manager

While covering the annual Nobel Banquet for tabloid Kvällspressen, crime reporter Annika Bengtzon witnesses a spectacular murder right in front of her. Two people are shot, one of them the controversial Laureate in Medicine, Aaron Wiesel. Annika is the key witness and is bound by the police not to disclose anything she has seen. A terrorist group with connections to the Middle East quickly admits responsibility for the murder. International press is all over the story, as are the police.