I’m a screenwriter with a background in the restaurant industry. The pace, the silence, and the people I met there have shaped how I listen – and how I write.
I work across genres – from intimate drama to psychological horror and sci-fi – but regardless of form, my stories share the same core: emotional precision, existential pressure, and a gaze that never looks away.
My ambition is to build a body of work defined by artistic integrity, thematic depth, and emotional clarity. I want to help shape a new Nordic storytelling tradition – one where sensitivity and boldness are allowed to coexist.
Title: JUDAS
Format: Short film (12–15 minutes)
Genre: Sci-fi / Thriller / Drama
Status: Script completed. Production planned for Fall/Winter 2025.
Logline:
When a man receives a button that gives him 1 bitcoin per press – but doubles the number of deaths each time – he descends into a moral spiral toward the extinction of humanity.
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About the project:
JUDAS is a claustrophobic short film about greed, technology, and the ultimate betrayal. A modern take on the biblical story where 30 clicks – the equivalent of 30 bitcoins – becomes the price for all human life. Set entirely in one house, the film uses minimalist storytelling and powerful symbolism.
Written and developed for direction by: Johan Bernvald
Planned to be shot with: Panasonic Lumix S5iix + Sigma 35mm f/1.4
Title: LIV
Format: Feature film (100 min)
Genre: Psychological horror
Status: In development
Logline:
A dare at an abandoned hospital ends with Liv locked inside a morgue drawer. Her friends leave her there by mistake. Days later, she starts appearing in dreams, on Snapchats, and at the edge of their vision – but Liv never came out.
The Core of the Story:
LIV is a psychological horror film about guilt, perception, and youthful betrayal, set in a Nordic reality where nothing feels solid anymore.
The script explores what happens when a group of teenagers does wrong – not by acting, but by failing to act. When they leave their friend in a morgue drawer and convince themselves she got out, what remains of Liv begins to haunt them.
This is not a ghost story.
This is about guilt that won’t let go.
Title: In Truth & Harm
Format: Feature Film (120 min)
Genre: Drama / Psychological Ensemble
Status: First draft completed
Logline:
The morning after a wedding in Tuscany, a waitress is found dead in the pool. No one knows what happened. Everyone carries guilt.
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In Truth and Harm is a psychological ensemble drama about silence, betrayal, and social collapse behind a beautiful facade.
The story follows three sisters, a newlywed couple, and a dozen guests gathering for a wedding in Tuscany. Beneath the sun-drenched surface, old wounds and long-suppressed tensions begin to resurface – and when one of the staff members is found dead the next morning, a heavy silence descends upon the terrace. No one knows the truth. But everyone is complicit.
Inspired by Scandinavian restraint and the European arthouse tradition, the film explores the question:
Are our lives real – or simply well-rehearsed performances?
Title: Solar Storm Format:
Series: (8x50 min)
Genre: Drama/thriller
Status: Pilot - First draft completed
Logline:
When a massive solar storm knocks out the world's power grid, the world is thrown back to pre-industrial times. In Oslo, a handful of people try to find new ways to survive – but soon it becomes clear that the greatest threat is not the darkness, but humanity itself.
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The Core of the Story:
The script explores what happens when civilization collapses overnight. Electricity vanishes. The internet dies. When we suddenly stand without the systems we never thought about.
The story asks: What happens to people who never learned to survive? When our conveniences turn into weaknesses, when the GPS goes silent and the refrigerator stops working - who do we become then? Is it possible to build something new when we can't even remember how the old thing actually worked?
Title: The Paragraph
Format: Film (90 min)
Genre: Drama/satire
Status: First draft completed
Logline:
When Hanna tries to open her dream restaurant in Oslo, she encounters a bureaucratic system that resembles an absurd dystopia. With determination, imagination, and resilience, she fights against a society where permits are more important than people.
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The Core of the Story:
The script explores what happens when human creativity is crushed by relentless bureaucracy. The story asks: Can you preserve your soul in a system that demands you betray it? When the line between human and institution blurs, we discover a frightening truth - that the systems we create to serve us often devour us.
At its core lies the question of change: Is it possible to reform the machine from within, or does it transform you first? And when adaptation becomes survival - what's left of you when you finally fit in?
Title: All Yours
Format: Series (8×45 min)
Genre: Sci-fi/drama
Status: Pilot - First draft completed
Logline:
A single mother participates in an advanced simulation game where everything she collects in an empty version of Oslo can become hers in real life. But the game tests not only her strategy – but also her boundaries as a human and parent.
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The Core of the Story:
When she steps into the simulated world of infinite wealth, she discovers sides of herself she never knew existed. Desires she never suspected. Boundaries she didn't know she had.
Through Sara's journey, something larger is revealed - how far we're willing to go for our children. How technology exploits our most primitive instinct: to protect those we love. And how the growing divide in society isn't just about money, but about how our deepest feelings are transformed into someone else's power.
Title: The Game of Reality
Format: Series (8×50 min)
Genre: Sci-fi/mystery
Status: Pilot - First draft completed
Logline:
When places begin to disappear from the map and reality glitches like a broken simulation, a journalist and a religion professor are drawn into a growing mystery that threatens our collective perception of what is real – and what is not.
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The Core of the Story:
The script depicts what happens when the contours of reality begin to dissolve. It poses fundamental questions about reality, free will and identity. At its center grows the unsettling realization that everything might just be an illusion - but an illusion we cannot live without. When the line between real and simulated blurs, the story asks: do our bonds still mean something? Our love? Our experiences? Even if the world they exist in might not be real.
Title: You & Me
Format: Three-part miniseries (3x75 min) Genre: Intimate relationship drama
Status: Episode 1 - First draft completed.
Logline:
They meet at the threshold of life - she's nineteen, he's twenty. Over two intense decades, they move in and out of each other's lives, sometimes side by side, sometimes on separate paths, but always with the other as a shadow in their consciousness. A reality-based love story about two people whose life paths wind through time as separate trails with the same inevitable destination.
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The Core of the Story:
The script explores what happens when two people love each other - just never at the same time. Through their story, it reveals how timing can destroy everything, how a closed door or a wrong moment can change a relationship forever.
At its core lies a painful truth: We constantly move toward and away from each other, always half a step out of sync. When one finally dares to feel, the other is already moving away. The story asks whether it's possible to love without hurting, to get close without getting hurt.
The story revolves around the unspoken - everything that's never said but still understood.
Title: Kelvin A
Format: Series (6×60 min)
Genre: Nordic noir/thriller
Status: Pilot - First draft completed
Logline:
When a series of ritualistic murders shakes Stockholm, a former security analyst, a disillusioned journalist, and an unknown perpetrator are drawn into a cross-cut game about guilt, justice, and a society slowly losing faith in itself.
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The Core of the Story:
The script explores moral complexity and personal responsibility through a crime story where past crimes awaken new acts of violence in the present. The question - who has the right to punish?
Title: World's Worst Parents
Format: Series (6×45 min)
Genre: Drama series / social realism
Status: Treatment and pitch ready for development
Logline:
When their first son is diagnosed with autism, their world is turned upside down. At the intersection of burnout and infinite love, they are forced to navigate a system that offers diagnoses but not solutions. While society's judgmental gaze weighs them down, they struggle with the realization that sacrifice may not be enough.
The Core of the Story:
The script explores what happens when your child looks like everyone else - but isn't. When the diagnosis is invisible but the needs are real. Parents are caught between well-meaning advice and judgmental looks from people who don't understand.
At its core lies their struggle: To defend a child whose needs others can't see. When meltdowns are interpreted as bad parenting and accommodations are seen as giving in. In the fight to be the "right" kind of parents, they discover that the world's "worst" parents might just be those who dare to put their child's invisible needs before others' visible expectations.
Title: The Unwanted
Format: Film (90 min)
Genre: Psychological horror/drama
Status: First draft completed
Logline:
A lonely janitor with a traumatic past takes an isolated job at a remote Norwegian mountain hotel during the winter season, where the isolation and silence force him to confront his demons as the hotel becomes a mirror for his own fractured psyche.
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The Core of the Story:
The script explores themes of abandonment, adoption, trauma and psychological isolation.
At its core lies the question of belonging: What does it mean to be chosen when you simultaneously feel abandoned?
Title: The Psychonaut
Format: In development
Genre: Psychological drama
Status: In development
Logline:
When a stressed working-class student starts taking study drugs to cope with university demands, he's drawn into an increasingly deep exploration of psychedelic substances - a journey that both reveals truths about his fractured identity and threatens to tear apart his reality.
The Core of the Story:
At its core lies a painful paradox: To find himself, he must lose himself. When the line between self-discovery and self-destruction blurs, the search for authenticity becomes the ultimate escape from reality.
The story revolves around our fundamental need to belong. But what happens when the feeling of home only exists in altered states of consciousness? If you find the answers you've been looking for - is it still you who finds them?