5 MINUTES with director Andreas Nilsson

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Andreas Nilsson is the director of one of the world’s most successful viral campaigns ever – The Epic Split – for Volvo Trucks featuring Jean-Claude van Damme, a commercial with over 73 million views. At the Cannes Lions Award 2014 it received two gold and one Grand Prix. Andreas has a background as an artist and musician in the band Silverbullit. As a visual artist and part of the alternative music and arts scene he started to do music videos in the early 2000s. Today he has created dazzling videos for major artists such as The Knife, Röyksopp, José Gonzáles, Kanye West, David Guetta and Robbie Williams. All characterized by the very distinctive and peculiar Andreas Nilsson-style. Andreas is based in Malmö and Los Angeles. We caught him for a talk on Skype when he was in Stockholm editing a coming commercial.