Kasper Collin is a Swedish documentary filmmaker, director, producer, and writer with a remarkable career spanning multiple decades. Between 1998 and 2005, he devoted himself to directing and producing the critically acclaimed documentary "My Name Is Albert Ayler", which was finally released in the UK and US in 2007. This documentary was met with widespread critical acclaim, boasting a Metacritic score that solidified its position as the third best-reviewed documentary of that year.
The film received glowing reviews from esteemed publications such as Sight & Sound, The New Yorker, and JazzTimes, with the latter praising it as "one of the most starkly beautiful and moving documentaries ever made about a jazz musician." The documentary's success was a testament to Collin's exceptional storytelling abilities, as he skillfully wove together a compelling narrative from the turbulent life of jazz legend Albert Ayler.
Collin's subsequent feature documentary, "I Called Him Morgan", premiered at five major fall festivals in 2016, including the Venice Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, and BFI London Film Festival. This documentary received widespread critical acclaim, with Metacritic announcing it as the best-reviewed movie of the first half of 2017 and Esquire dubbing it the best documentary of the year (so far) in September 2017.
Today, Kasper Collin resides in Gothenburg, Sweden, where he runs his own production company, Kasper Collin Produktion AB. He has also held the esteemed position of chairman of the Independent Filmmakers Organization in Sweden between 2009 and 2014. Notably, IndieWire listed him as one of nine breakthrough names to look out for at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.
