Swedish premiere via NonStop Entertainment is pencilled for the fall 2020.

The music biopic Yung Lean: In My Head by Henrik Burman was scheduled to world premiere at the Spotlight Documentary programme of New York's Tribeca Film Festival (April 15-26) but awaits a new slot as the festival was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. 

The film follows the transformation of Swedish teenager Jonatan Leandoer Håstad, into world rapper Yung Lean and the artist’s return to his original form after a depression, triggered by exposure to drugs and money in Los Angeles.

Commenting on the postponement of the film's world premiere, producer David Herdies of Sweden's Moment Film said: “We were all really thrilled about having the world premiere in NYC together with Jonatan (Yung Lean) and his crew, our amazing team and all the other partners - to finally, after years of working on this project, get the chance to share it with the audience. So, we are of course very sad that we can’t share this moment live. For the future festival life of the film it’s of course important that we still have this premiere, so we sincerely hope we’ll get a new chance to create an event where we can meet the audience."

The film was produced by Herdies and his colleague at Momento Film, Michael Krotkiewski, together with RMV Film, headed by ABBA co-founder Benny Andersson and his son Ludvig Andersson.

“Ludvig came on board very early on this project. I think he saw the potential of a great story with two creators that he believed in: Yung Lean as a music artist and Henrik Burman as a director,” said Herdies to nordicfilmandtvnews.com. 

NonStop Entertainment handles Scandinavian rights and Cinetic international sales. 

Herdies who took part in the ‘Producer on the Move’ initiative in Cannes 2018, has several other projects in production at Momento.

  • Genesis (working title) which he directed with Georg Götmark is aiming at a festival premiere end of 2020/early 2021. “We had to stop the editing in Denmark due to the virus as we can’t travel there, so we’re now editing the film in Sweden with a Swedish editor,” commented Herdies. The film focuses on the development of future technologies, especially within the field of AI and robotics and how we as human beings relate to questions about responsibility and ethics. It was co-produced by Made in Copenhagen, with co-financing from SVT, DR, NRK and support among others from Nordisk Film & TV Fond. 
  • Stories from the Debris by Jennifer Rainsford assembles a collection of hopeful, uncanny, sad and poetic stories about how humans and nature live through change, with the Japanese Tsunami of 2011 as a backdrop. 
  • Leaving Jesus by Ellen Fiske (behind the Tribeca 2019 selected Scheme Birds, co-directed with Ellinor Hallin) tells of a group of people suffering from ‘religious trauma syndrome’, who gather at a retreat in San Francisco. 
  • Men on Boat by Carl Olsson (Meanwhile on Earth) follows the crew of an oil tanker far out at sea. Through a series of scenes from the men's daily lives on board, we are allowed to reflect on the sailor as myth and reality. The film is co-produced by Final Cut for Real.