CHRISTIAN PELLVING
Creative director/Film director/Producer/Copywriter
Christian Pellving has been in the media industry since the early 1990´s.
When Christian was studying sociology at Örebro University, he started a local TV station. Christian´s experience of his chairmanship at the TV-station, was useful when he in 1996 was working as a line producer at the TV station KMOS-TV6 in Missouri, USA, parallel to his education in Film and Communication at Central Missouri State University.
Back in Sweden he started to work as a director and editor at Mediabolaget AB, directing and working with postproduction for TV Stations such as National Swedish Television SVT and TV4. One of them, a documentary for SVT “Miracles of the heart” (3 x 50 min), won several awards in Europe.
In 2002 Christian´s enthusiasm for the communication side of production resulted in the start of the production company DV RED. DV RED worked with clients such as; National Property Board, Absolut Vodka, Tetra Pak, Stora Enso and several other industrial companies. The work included both print ads, TV shows, interactive and corporate productions.
In 2004 he produced a documentary of the acclaimed Swedish filmdirector Roy Andersson called “Studio 24 – The house of Roy Andersson”. It has been shown in several Nordic countries and has been awarded.
In the beginning of 2005 Christian Pellving sold parts of his company to the production company Animech AB and he has been involved in numerous projects all over the world. The client list is among others: GE Healthcare, National Property Board, Radi Medical System, Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), Thermogenesis, SKB, Astra Zeneca, Novozymes.
Between 2007-2009 Christian co-founded and worked as Creative director at the communication agency Oddville in Uppsala. There he has been developing communication platforms, commercials, strategy work and infomercials. He is responsible for the works to customers Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Tetra Pak, Öhlins amongst others.
During last years Christian has been awarded six Gold awards and six special/Silver awards at international film and communication festivals; World Media Festival in Hamburg, Telly awards in New York and US International Film & Video Festival in Los Angeles. One special award was an interactive and accessible DVD included with a paper book. With over 200 pages of voice-over readable e-document and over 60 minutes of film and still images for National Property Board project “Accessibility now”.
Christian has a unique eye to find the essence in whatever subject he is assigned. This is an asset when working as a creative director or as a producer in his productions. But in the end, he focuses on storytelling and on how to communicate; whether it is for film, web, interactive or a print.
Today Christian is working for his own agency, Pellving Communications, as Creative Director, consultant and entrepreneur.
