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Gender: Male

Place of birth: Gällivare, Norrbottens län, Sweden

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Movie Involvements: 53

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

Biography

Daniel Lehmussaari is a film director who was born on the 6th of july 1976 in Gällivare, Sweden. A huge fan of Italian horror movies from the 70's-80's, with a great love of Dario Argento's work, Lehmussaari started playing around with a video camera around 1992 that he borrowed from a local association when he had just enrolled in high school, as there wasn't much to do in Gällivare, and he started to make some low budget action films with his friends. In 1995 he made his first film, a 25 minutes long gore movie called Chainsaw Charle goes to the hospital, together with his friend and fellow horror fan Oden Nilsson who would go on to star in some of Lehmussaari's early films including Death Academy (2005). Around the 2000's Lehmussaari along with Mikael Stridsson and Pauli Raitaniemi founded their own independent film studio Cruzical Film&Media. To this day all of his films have been filmed in and around Gällivare. In the 2010's Felix Nord of Monte Fjanton Creations started a series of reviews for his review show "Felix Recenserar" (dedicated to mostly bad movies that were either originally from Sweden or dubbed into Swedish) where he covered Lehmussaari's movies starting with Death Academy. Felix's reviews and eventual interview with Lehmussaari was one of many contributing factors that helped in bringing in a broader audience to Lehmussaari's films. Around 2016 Lehmussaari met Roger Bergström who's usually the chairman of the Arctic Light Film Festival who is also rather fond of Lehmussaari's work and the Arctic Light Film Festival has showcased his films on multiple occasions and has become a staplein their program. Bergström ended up in contact with organisers of the Dead North Film Festival which he thought Lehmussaari and his team should make a short film for the festival which they did and Lehmussaari ended up winning a best scare award. Lehmussaari is currently working on Death Academy 2 which is set to release in 2025.

Most Famous Work

Death Academy
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3

Death Academy

(2005) Writer
In the Shadow of the Ram
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In the Shadow of the Ram

(2003) Writer
Luna Project
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2

Luna Project

(2024) Writer
Fasa: Children of Evil
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Fasa: Children of Evil

(2012) Screenplay
Fasa: The Basement
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Fasa: The Basement

(2017) Writer
Legend of the Lake
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10

Legend of the Lake

(2018) Sound Mixer
Fasa: The Clown
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Fasa: The Clown

(2014) Writer
The House of Orphans
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1

The House of Orphans

(2008) Writer

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2012 The Devil
2005 Mental patient
Eric Norberg
Year Character Movie/Tv

Crew

Year Role Movie/Tv
2018 Cinematography
2017 Cinematography
2014 Cinematography
2012 Special Effects
2005 Cinematography
Cinematography
Year Role Movie/Tv

Directing

Editing

Sound

Year Role Movie/Tv
2018 Sound Mixer
2009 Sound Editor
Year Role Movie/Tv

Writing

Costume & Make-Up

Year Role Movie/Tv
2012 Special Effects Makeup Artist
Special Effects Makeup Artist
Year Role Movie/Tv

Production

Visual Effects

Year Role Movie/Tv
2011 Visual Effects
Special Effects Supervisor
Year Role Movie/Tv

Art

Year Role Movie/Tv
2005 Production Design
Year Role Movie/Tv

Camera

Year Role Movie/Tv
2003 Director of Photography
Year Role Movie/Tv

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