The Producers

Bo Harringer, born 1947, has been working as a director, fotograf and producer since 1980. He have taking part in a varaity of independent films, such as feature film, shortfilm and documentries. He also works as a producer at the University of Gothenburg. Runs the productionscompany FilmAteljén. Produce today mainly documentaries, but also commissioned work.

Some of the last years productiona of docmentries:

Voice of the River (2006) Directors: Bo Harringer & Johan Bergström.
Lule river has been a life vein for those that lived and worked along its shores, people have toiled and slaved, for their livelihood. The river has been dammed and tamed, but it has kept its power. "The voice of the river" is about working in the forest and lografting 50 years ago and about harvesters and lumbertrucks of today.
Under the dark sky of the nation (2004) Directors: Bo Harringer & Renzo Aneröd.
Skinheads, bikers, muslim girls, anarchic feminists, nazi youngsters and Abuse of narcotics, imprisonment, Bin Ladin, USA, EU riots, Death Metal, Punk, Hiphop and oi-music.
A present day account of a split Sweden reflected by those who society consider dangerous.
Born slave (2003) Direcors: Hélène Aastrup Samuels och Bo Harringer.
In Mauritania slavery is still in practice. The child of a slave woman belongs to her master. Bilal, sixteen years old, has ran away and looks for his mother in the slums of the capital Nouakchott. The only film ever made about this slavery.
The wheel of fire (2002) Director: Bo Harringer.
A journey to Cameroon with a street performance about the Holocaust.
The greatness of the small man (2000) Directors: Bo Harringer & Kjell Andersson.
About the swedish director Roy Andersson and his prizewinning film "Songs from the second floor,
88.soldiers (1999), Director: Bo Harringer.
About hiphop, a global movement where oppressed young people give voice to their frustration.
It´s not as you think (1998) Directors: Bo Harringer & Leif Ryding.
About the people in a suburb to Gothenburg, Sweden, a suburb with a bad reputation.
One day I´ll fly again (1997) Directors: Bo Harringer & Leif Ryding.
About an armsdealer who sells weapons to a dictatorship in Latin-Amerika. And there he found his Paradise.

Renzo Aneröd was born in 1969 in Göteborg, Sweden. Works as a writer.

Under the dark sky of the nation (2004) Directors: Bo Harringer & Renzo Aneröd.
Skinheads, bikers, muslim girls, anarchic feminists, nazi youngsters and Abuse of narcotics, imprisonment, Bin Ladin, USA, EU riots, Death Metal, Punk, Hiphop and oi-music.
A present day account of a split Sweden reflected by those who society consider dangerous.

Making The Film

”Children of Islam” is a continuation of the documentary Under the dark side of the Nation, about young people from various sub-cultures in Sweden. During the filming of Under the dark side of the Nation, we noticed an increasing interest for a literal interpretation of Islam amongst young people, particularly after September 11th 2001 when, for some, Bin Laden was seen as a hero.

A few years later these young men were portrayed in the press as terrorist sympathizers and haters of jews and christians. Then we decided to make ”Children of Islam”.

During the filming we met other interesting people with different attitudes toward religion and Sweden. One was a former fundamentalist, another more secular. Finally we met two people who had grown up in a Muslim country but now were fighting against islamic rules and religion in Sweden.

”Children of Islam” is not a film about Islam but a film about six individuals living in Sweden who all have a background in Muslim countries. It is a film about the children of Islam.
The main purpose of the film is to let young people freely speak ut and to show the great range in opinions and attitudes that exist in these environments.

Bo Harringer
Director/producer