Always keen on making things, Jesper’s creative career started when he began exhibiting his own furniture, paintings and photos at exhibitions in his hometown of Falsterbo in Sweden. After completing Swedish military service he studied drama, theatre and film at the University of Lund before taking a scriptwriting course, then buying a camera and a Ford LTD ’73 and drove all over the US shooting a documentary called Elvis.
Destitute when he returned to Sweden, he assistant directed on commercials by day in order to work on the edit of Elvis at night. Hooked on the immediacy of commericals (not to mention the limitless cash and glamour) he teamed up with Robert Jitzmark in 1994 to form the successful directorial duo Mekano Baby. In 1997 Jesper began directing solo and in 2004 he joined the emerging Swedish production company Social Club.
Jesper came to the attention of Nice Shirt some years ago after making a lo-fi ad for bottled water featuring a sea monster. He eventually signed to Nice Shirt Films for representation in the UK in January 2007. He has been shortlisted at Cannes for the last 7 years, won Best Swedish Director at the ROY awards in 2007, and won the coveted Golden Egg for best commercial for SEB 'Forever Young' in 2007.
Not shy of a little sojourn in front of the camera, Jesper memorably dressed up as a chicken to warn us of the perils of alcohol abuse in a short film he made in 2007. After a red hot run of great work he hung up his directing boots in 2009 in order to serve “daddy time” for the birth of Sam, his second son. He returned behind the camera to shoot McDonald's 'Steps' here in the UK as well as the hilarious 9-part episodic spot for Comviq. He speaks significantly better English than most English people....

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