Dahlin has more than 15 years experience in the Swedish film & TV industry. Besides Becoming Astrid starring Alba August, she has produced Johannes Nyholm’s acclaimed feature debut The Giant, and served as executive producer on The 100 Year-old Man Who Climbed the Window and Disappeared, and was associate producer on the TV series Modus. She will report to the company’s CEO Jan Blomgren. 

Blomgren said: “We are reorganising to adapt to what our projects and the market demand. With Maria we’ll get the specialist skills we need to increase our production of drama series and feature films.”

Art & Bob Film was set up in 2015 following the merger of Jan Blomgren’s Bob Film Sweden and Mikael Hernström’s Art89 Television. TV shows on Art & Bob’s credit include TV4’s hit hospital series Syrror (Swedish version of the Finnish show Nurses) and the comedy Ack Värmland (Small Time Love), as well as Discovery Networks Sweden/Kanal5’s Sommaren med släkten, adapted from Norway’s Neste Sommer (Next Summer). Recent feature film productions include Jonas Selberg Augustsén’s The Garbage Helicopter and Ulf Malmros’ My Future Love.

In November 2018, Blomgren and Hernström sold part of their shares in Art & Bob Film to the high-profile Swedish investor in drama content Co_Made (shareholder also of Garagefilm and co-producer of Sthlm Requiem, The Nile Hilton Incident among others). 

“When Co_Made came on board, we immediately outlined a new strategy to ramp up our production activities, and part of that strategy was to hire a new head of film & TV drama" explained Blomgren to nordicfilmandtvnews.com.  Rounding out the company’s current staff are executive producer Anette Brantin (responsible for on-going drama and comedy series with returnable potential), producers Veronika Öhnedal and Rebecka Hamberger, as well as development producers Mikael Syrén (Beck, Livet i Fagervik), and Frida Hallberg. 

“Looking ahead, our goal is to focus more on high-end quality drama with engaging stories, as well as packaging. Competition both on television and in cinemas is fierce, and prices for pre-buys are decreasing. We simply have to be at the top of the game and extremely focused on what we’re doing,” asserted Blomgren. 

Art & Bob’s current projects include the 10X10’ TV dramedy The Comeback (Revansch) created by Oscar-nominated Patrik Eklund (Instead of Abracadabra) which premiered on SVT Play June 15. The absurd comedy focuses on ex-badminton player Annbritt (Anki Larsson) who has never gotten over her defeat in the 1983 semi-final 1983. Now an alcoholic, she seeks revenge and attempts to make a comeback. Her homeless son is played by Olle Sarri (The Inner Circle, Gösta). 

Blomgren said a new comedy show, an original high-end drama and a crime procedural based on best-selling books will be announced later this summer or in the fall.

Art & Bob is also in production with Jonas Selberg Augustsén’s second feature film The Longest Day (Den längsta dagen) co-produced with Finland’s Empire Pictures. Set during midsummer, in a small community near the Arctic Circle, the film follows different individuals, as they bravely soldier on with their activities, under the merciless never setting sun. The film will be delivered late August. TriArt will handle the Swedish theatrical release.