CHRZU (Christer Lindström, born 1977)

CHRZU is focused on directing and writing but is active in all parts of the film making from set building to sound design. Chrzu have graduated from the Arts Academy at Turku University of Applied Sciences 2004.
His first student film, a puppet animation called “Treevil”(2002) was co directed with Aino Ovaskainen and Aiju Salminen. In the year 2003 “Treevil”  won the Le grand Prix du Public award at Premier Plans festival and the Jameson Short Film Award at Tampere Film Festival and the Special Distinction Award in the Annecy Animated Festival .  In 2004 “Treevil” was awarded at the Stuttgart Trickfilm Festival 2004 with the International Sponsorship Prize for Animated Film.

CHRZU has also participated in the production of  the awarded “Hankerchifs for Sale”  animation by director Jan Andersson. 

His second film “Silencer”, a drawn animation, was finished in May 2003 and has been screened in various festivals including Tampere Film Festival and Suttgart Trickfilm Festival in 2004.
	
”Cinemare” is CHRZUs graduation film from the Turku Arts Academy. "Cinemare" won the Mèliés d'Argent- award for the best fantasy/ horror short film in Espoo Ciné 2004, Finland. The film also got a special mention at the Leeds International Film Festival in November 2005 in the World Animation Award series. In Finland a horror film event in Joensuu is named after "Cinemare".

In 2005 CHRZU made his first music video "Velcra: Memory Loss" for the finnish band Velcra.  The video won the Teenpumpel-award at the Oulu music video festival in September 2006.

”A Song in the Shower” is a short film, which is part of an animated tv- series for adults by Animaation apupyörä for Finnish television. The film was chosen as the audience's favorite film at the Iik! Horrorfilm festival November 4th 2006 in Ii, Finland. 

CHRZU have also made film festival trailers for Espoo Cine´"In A Theatre Near You" (2006) and for Tampere Film Festival "Holy Tampere!"(2005).