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Niclas Gillis. Director: Hold Me Down. Born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden, Niclas Gillis started studying film production in night classes at Stockholm University at age fifteen. He enrolled in a full time media high school a year later and soon directed commercials for a variety of Swedish companies.
4,256 Followers, 518 Following, 444 Posts - Niclas Gillis (@niclasgillis) on Instagram: "Writer & director at XYZ Films. Actor at Global Ensemble Talent."
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Niclas Gillis is a Swedish actor and award-winning film director, known for his roles in the Per Hagman adaptation Pool, and Jesper Ganslandt’s The Ape. As a director, he is most known for his critically acclaimed drama short film, Hold Me Down, which depicted a day in the life of a 19-year-old single mother and sex worker in The South Bronx.
Niclas Gillis (born April 20, 1989) is a Swedish writer, director, and producer as well as the founder and CEO of the Swedish-American film production company, The Collectif. He is best known for his narrative short film, Hold Me Down (2017) , which depicted a day in the life of a 19-year-old single mother and sex worker in the South Bronx.
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- The Collectif
“Undoubtedly, Niclas Gillis’ new project makes for a profound and agonizing short that deserves everyone’s attention.” -View of the Arts. In the video portraits below, members of the cast share their own stories.
Swedish writer-director Niclas Gillis first became aware of the harsh conditions faced by women in poverty in the United States in 2009, when a classmate invited him to what he thought would to be a regular house party in Harlem, but that proved to be an illicit event similar to the one depicted in the film.
Called “the premiere talent to watch”, by Nike in 2017, Niclas Gillis is a US-based writer and director from Stockholm, Sweden. Between 2014 and 2017, Gillis wrote and directed “Hold Me Down”, a drama short film about a day in the life of a 19-year-old single mother in the South Bronx.
Niclas Gillis is known as an Actor, Director, Producer, Writer, and Screenplay. Some of his work includes Hansel & Gretel: Warriors of Witchcraft, The Ape, Pool, and The Cave.
