David Sandberg

Biography

David Sandberg is a Swedish filmmaker who has directed television commercials and music videos. In 2012, he quit the commercial directing business and focused on writing a script for an action comedy film set in the 1980s, inspired by action films of that era. In December 2013, David released the trailer and began a Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund the film’s production with the goal of raising $200,000 to produce a 30-minute film and stream it online for free. By the end of the campaign he had more than 17,000 backers with a total of $630,019. In 2015 the film was presented at Cannes’ Quinzaine des réalisateurs and uploaded to Youtube, where it garnered more than 24 million views. David Sandberg is currently working on a Kung Fury feature film.