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Christoffer Glans

Christoffer Glans

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Mostly shot on Alexa, but I handled a few shots (also me in front of the camera for those shots haha). Those are shot with Dragon 6K and Canon CN-E primes with only natural light and practicals.
Directed by Jakob Ström, DOP - Andres Rignell FSF. I provided equipment did some focus pulling and "acting".

Important film for all guys and especially dads out there.


EDIT:
Video just went viral today with over 2 700 000 views! (not the english, the original in Swedish).
 
Kelsey W. Smith said:
Nicely done Christopher. Great story, well written, and nicely shot! Love the VO girl, very powerful!

PS And a father of 2 daughters, OMG!:)
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Jakob and Andres should get most of the cred, also Sabina Törnberg who did the grading. I merely lended my face and my Dragon as well as focus pulling some shots.
 
Wow, this video just got viral, over 2 500 000 in just a day and all national papers are writing about it! Nice! :smiley:
 
Timothy Jones said:
Holey Smoke that looks great! Dragon and the canon cine look amazing!
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It's not all Dragon and CN-E, just a few shots. The rest is Alexa and from what I know, high speed mkII or III (but I need to check that to be sure).
 
Second day and over 5 million views :thumbsup:
 
Peter Arnold said:
Holy cow, that was touching!

Especially for me, being a father of a 10 year old daughter.


Very, very well done.
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It's been touching for a lot of people... right now it's over 6.2 million views and we're translating it to spanish, german and even mandarin (we keep getting requests for other languages... polish was the latest request). Insane how quickly this went from a few thousand to so many millions of views.
 
As a father, that summed up all of my fears in one very effective piece of filmmaking.
 
Interesting to see all of the dislikes on Youtube. Curious whether people didn't like how the message was delivered, the style of filmmaking. Hard to imagine it's the message itself that people don't like.
 
Thanks for bringing that into our world.
 
Steve Sherrick said:
Interesting to see all of the dislikes on Youtube. Curious whether people didn't like how the message was delivered, the style of filmmaking. Hard to imagine it's the message itself that people don't like.
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The comment section is now disabled, it was filled with hateful messages from men saying that the video was saying that all men are rapists and that it's feminist extremist propaganda etc. The nature of the "violence" in these comments really speaks for why this video is important and why the things in it needs to be said and heard.

The main problem I see with people (or rather only men) disliking this and in colorful language attacking the message in it and us who made it, is plain and simply because they are fucking stupid. The film doesn't portray men as rapists, it depicts that we have a culture of objectifying women and a general way of speaking using words like whore, cunt etc. that keeps affecting young girls growing up and boys as well. Making them keep this behavior to fit in to the social groups they live in until it's a part of who they are. For most people, this behavior just keeps continuing down to their own children and for some confused men this aggressive jargon leds them into committing rape.

So what most men who rage out against this video is missing is that the message is quite clear if they listen, it simply says that we as men should stop our jargon, our way of speaking deprecatory both to women and about them while stopping others when they do the same. Stop this way of behavior and stand up against others who does it. It's the only way to make sure that our daughters grow up in a world where they won't feel like second grade citizens and "pets" of men. It will also prevent men from going into the rape culture that is very much alive today.

If there is a real essence in feminism, the very core of it, it starts with how we teach our children to behave against one another. The only way to truly making sure everyone's equal in the future is to make sure the children all feel equal and treat others as equals. Everything else is just treatment of syndroms, not the actual sickness of inequality.

But as I mentioned... many men are just stupid and don't even listen to what is said in the video before lashing out; meaning they dislike the video and email really hateful messages to Jakob (the director). Reading those messages I feel that this world is more fucked up than I previously thought. The amount of pathetic men out there who's behavior keeps putting us, the good and nice men in bad shade is ridiculously high.
 
Hey Christoffer, one of my clients just made this THE SPOT OF THE DAY!

They are a giant, billion dollar company...and had everyone watch this today.

So...CONGRATS. The word is getting out!

best
 
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