Ruben Östlund (*1974) started his film career by directing skiing films in the 1990s which proved to be the reason for his later acceptance at the film school in Gothenburg. Together with producer Erik Hemmendorff he is the co-founder of the production company Plattform Produktion, which produces his films. He has directed two dramatic feature-length films – The Guitar Mongoloid (2004) and Involuntary (2008) and is currently working on a third, Play, scheduled to be released in 2011.