Academy Award® Winner’s Kim Magnusson and Martin Strange-Hansen’s drama ON MY MIND has been shortlisted for an OSCAR®

Student Academy Award® and Academy Award® winner Martin Strange-Hansen’s ON MY MIND shares a story about a man who is desperate to sing his wife a song whatever it takes. This live action short film was Produced by double Academy Award® Winner Kim Magnusson and has just been announced that it has been shortlisted for an OSCAR®

The film is inspired by the director’s experience of losing his daughter. In situations like these singing a song in a sleepy bar, suddenly feels so important and meaningful, because it connects you to the life you’ve shared with the one you have to let go.

Henrik wants to sing a song for his wife. It has to be today; it has to be now. It’s a question of life, death and karaoke.

Writer/Director Martin Strange-Hansen graduated from the Danish Filmschool in 2001, with his Student Academy Award® winning graduation film FEEDING DESIRE. His next short film THIS CHARMING MAN won an OSCAR® in the Short Live Action category in 2003. He is the creator of the first Danish webisode in 2008 the Webby Awards-Honoree PINLY & FLAU. Martin Strange-Hansen gained a nomination nod at The Danish Film Awards (Robert) for his previous short film JENSEN LIVES HERE. He is a member of AMPAS® as well as The Danish Filmacademy. Besides writing and directing his own projects Martin Strange-Hansen recently has started script writing for fellow directors, including the actual events inspired drama (Synkefri) SUNKEN HEARTS, currently in development with Swulli Film, Aarhus.

Producer Kim Magnusson founded M&M Productions with his father, Tivi Magnusson in 1995. He was later headhunted to run Nordisk Film’s Film Division. He has produced or Executive Produced more than 150 films, and TV-series such as ADAM’S APPLES, HEADHUNTER, TERKEL IN TROUBLE, R, PUSHER II &P III, MEN & CHICKEN and I KILL GIANTS. He has been Oscar® nominated in the category “Live Action Short Film” six times and won the coveted award 2 times – in 1999 for ELECTION NIGHT and in 2014 for HELIUM. Kim Magnusson has been the chairman of the Danish Producers Association for 9 years as well as chairman of the Danish Film Academy for 20 years. He recently co-founded a new pan-Nordic distribution company Scandinavian Film Distribution.