Last Weekend with Jenny and John by Jimmy Olsson at Film Festivals

London, UK – Following a successful festival run of two of his latest short films Notes and Alive, Filmmaker Jimmy Olsson presents his 14th short film, the drama – Last weekend with Jenny and John. This is his most personal project to date and. Together with producer Karin Lundahl and DP Anna Smoronova, they completed the film in late December and it premiered in January at Göteborg Film Festival and followed up with Santa Barbara International Film Festival early February.

Logline: It’s the weekend when John and his daughter Jenny go to Motala for a basketball game that Jenny is going to play. It’s the weekend when John gets replaced at his job. It’s the weekend when Jenny wants to stop playing basketball and be more with her friends. It’s the weekend when everything about the relationship between Jenny and John is going to change. It’s the last weekend with Jenny and John.

Watch Official Trailer for Last Weekend with Jenny & John Directed by Jimmy Olsson

Writer and Director Jimmy Olsson said; “As always I read a lot and I listen a lot to different stories and certain things resonate with me and tend to stick in my mind. In this case it was a short reflection from a podcast that made me think of my own situation. It was a story about a father and his daughter. She was singing along to an old song in the car and he was watching her while driving and he thought about her future.”

“What decisions she will have to go through and all the exciting things she is going to experience while growing up. I have a daughter who is 10 and I felt I wanted to write something about being a parent and what happens to you when your children don’t need you anymore.”

“You could say that I’m preparing mentally for that already. Visually I am very inspired by the great painter Johannes Vermeer and Anna Smoronova who shot the film was very into him as well so we were a great team.”

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