Jonas Sima

Gunnar Jonas Sima (born 31 May 1937 in Hudiksvall, Sweden) is a Swedish filmmaker,^[1] journalist, writer and educator.^[2]

Biography

Stockholm City Theatre at Sergels torg and Drottninggatan

Though born in Hudiksvall, Sima grew up in Ljusdal in Gävleborg County. He has continuously served as secretary of the Hälsingland Academy since that cultural group was founded in 1988.

In the autumn of 2006 he stood for election to Parliament on the Social Democratic list in Stockholm, but with the party's popular vote declining to 35 percent, he was not one of the 130 MPs the party elected, and a centre-right coalition government led by the Moderate Party took office.

In recent years he has held positions on the board of the Stockholm City Theatre (1998-2006) and served as secretary of the Kulturarbetarnas socialdemokratiska förening ("Cultural Workers Social Democratic Union", known by its Swedish initials KSF), a left-leaning community of artistic workers centred on Stockholm.

Sima is married to Inger Edvardsson, an executive with the Swedish Film Institute; they have two adult daughters.^[3]

Writing- and film-related activities

Sima was connected with the Swedish tabloid newspaper Expressen as a film critic for 11 years, followed by 22 years as a reporter. During the last two years before leaving the paper in 2000 he chronicled personal interviews for the tabloid's back page. He currently works as a freelance reviewer of movies and books, as well as a journalist and lecturer for the Arbetarnas bildningsförbund ("Workers Educational Association", known as ABF). He writes for movie magazines, political magazines and other publications, and regularly contributes columns for smaller Hälsingland newspapers, including Hudiksvalls Tidning, Ljusdals-Posten, Ljusnan and Söderhamns Kuriren.

Jonas Sima has coauthored more than 20 books, including the internationally acclaimed interview book Bergman on Bergman (1970, English translation 1993, ISBN 978-0-306-80520-2).^[4] He is one of the contributors to Murvelminnen: 46 journaliter berättar ("Reporting memories: 46 journalists' accounts", 2012)^[5] and has written three children's books about his Blåsjöbarna characters ("Blue Lake children", 1974–77).

He served as editor of three anthologies on the Hälsingland region, in one book writing about the influence of Nazi ideology in his homeland. Another work, Kalas-Praktika (2009), describes how to prepare sculpin soup. Another anthology, Citizen Schein (2010), has the theme of mastery of conflict and is devoted to Harry Schein (1924-2006), a writer and film critic for Dagens Nyheter who was instrumental in placing the Swedish film industry on a sound financial footing.

Jonas Sima has produced some 60 documentary films and two feature films, most shown on Swedish television. Recent productions include Filmaren i Storskogen (2009); Inget jävla joll! (2010); and Lisbet (2011), a conversation with Lisbet Palme, widow of assassinated Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme and now a spokesperson for UNICEF and a member of the OAU team which investigated the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

Filmography

2011: Lisbet
2004: Storsamlaren på Hillsta
2003: Solo
2002: Kalle Kamrat
1996: Vildhussen
1993: Dragspelskungen
1991: Putte à la clarinette and Putte på Stampen
1990: Ljuset i dalen
1988: De sista skidåkarna
1984: På tur med Tor
1983: Åke Hasselgård Story and Pipmäster
1980: Barna från Blåsjöfjället
1976: Hej Amerika, lyssna!
1974: Drömmål
1973: Cosmic Love and Döden tänkte jag mig inte så
1972: Oh, mein Poppe! and Revolutionen i Sveg
1971: Älgjakten and En filmförfattare
1970: Röde skräddarn and Välkommen till Grekland
1969: Matchen
1968: Porträtt av Per and Tage
1967: Kajsa
1965: Den våta stenen
1962: Dragarbrunn^[1]

Notes

^ ^a ^b Jonas Sima Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine in the Swedish Film Database. Accessed 7 Dec. 2011.
^ Sveriges befolkning 1970, (CD-ROM version 1.04), Sveriges Släktforskarförbund (Federation of Swedish Genealogical Societies), 2003.
^ Jonas Sima Produktion Fakta. Accessed 2011-12-18.
^ "Det är Bergman som bestämmer bilden". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). November 23, 2008. Retrieved 6 December 2011.
^ Murvelminnen: 46 journaliter berättar ("Reporting memories: 46 journalists' accounts", 2012, Hjalmarson & Högberg (Swedish, 218 pp.), ISBN 9789172241589.

External links

Sveriges Släktforskarförbund (Federation of Swedish Genealogical Societies)

[filmsv-1] Jonas Sima Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine in the Swedish Film Database. Accessed 7 Dec. 2011.

[cd-2] Sveriges befolkning 1970, (CD-ROM version 1.04), Sveriges Släktforskarförbund (Federation of Swedish Genealogical Societies), 2003.

[bio-3] Jonas Sima Produktion Fakta. Accessed 2011-12-18.

[4] "Det är Bergman som bestämmer bilden". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). November 23, 2008. Retrieved 6 December 2011.

[murvel-5] Murvelminnen: 46 journaliter berättar ("Reporting memories: 46 journalists' accounts", 2012, Hjalmarson & Högberg (Swedish, 218 pp.), ISBN 9789172241589.

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