::BACK IN THE DAY >>

It all started with Leon, David's father, producing and directing documentaries and editing and rewriting features.

The Caravan logo was given a perfect symbolic meaning when Leon in 1986 went to Afghanistan and spent 5 months with the guerrilla (the Mujahedeen) shooting a documentary, about the Soviet occupation. Due to the very dangerous circumstances he went as a one man team with the camera equipment loaded onto donkeys, horses and camels.

When David later finished school and decided to ask his father to take him in as an assistant, Leon strongly adviced him: "Don't become a filmmaker unless you absolutely have to!". But it was too late. David's initial training was in the editing room. Starting with commercials, he cut 12 78-minute episodes, of an celebrity-adventure-series for Swedish televisioni.

Working with his father, David learnt everything the hard way: editing, operating the camera, lighting, sound etc. One day David produced a bunch of typewritten pages, containing a rough diary of a summer in his own life - it became his first feature SUMMERTIME (aka Vackert Väder) 1996.

The next project NIGHT BUS 807 was shot in Stockholm on a minimal budget and a small grant from Peter Hald of the Swedish Film Institute. David and Leon presented a rough cut to the distributor Peter Possne at SONET, who showed immediate interest. NIGHT BUS 807 opened at the Gothenburg Film Festival 1997 and was released theatrically nationwide. Next year caravan film went on to produce LITHIVM, David's third feature, which won him the Young Filmmaker's Award at the Hollywood Filmfestival 1999.

Leon and David now realized that their films had an international appeal and interest - but on one condition, they have to be in English language.