Thomas Nordanstad

Director, Producer, Writer

Thomas Nordanstad is a Swedish filmmaker based in Bangkok and Stockholm. In the 90’s he opened an art gallery in New York showing artists Jean Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and other 80 ́s graffiti artists. The gallery was then involved with artists such as Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger and British Damien Hirst.
In 1999, Nordanstad began making films full time. The first being “Painting Pol Pot”, 2000, about the last surviving prisoner of the infamous torture prison S.21 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

His first feature documentary was “Dictators don’t wear Jeans” (about artistic expression as a means for political change) taking place in 11 countries around the world.

In 2012, his film “Hashima, Japan”, became the official blue print for scenes in the James Bond film “Skyfall”, and Nordanstad worked as a visual production coordinator in London, recreating the island from his film.

He won the Harold Pinter Foundation Award 2019 for his short film “Victoria Station”, 2019 which premiered at the Harold Pinter Festival the same year. He is currently in production with “One For The Road”, also by Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter, as well as three streaming productions for The National Theatre, London.

His first feature film “The Long Melody”, is released in 2025.

Nordanstad has also written articles in magazines in Sweden, Germany, USA, France and England, lectured at art academies in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Amsterdam and London, and Yale University, CalArts, Valencia, CA, Stanford, CA, amongst others. and written one novel, “Population One”