Johan Melin (1979) was born and raised in small town Herrljunga, Sweden. As a teenager he started to write and play in a punk band, and he always kept the DIY-spirit. He moved to Stockholm to make films and attend the Stockholm Film School; there he shot his trilogy about Male Loneliness, the STHLM Trilogy.
Johan worked as a journalist for 6 years, for G-P and Sydsvenskan. He moved to Copenhagen in 2001 to study Directing at the National Film School of Denmark. He finished his first feature while still in school, the autobiographical no-budget pic Hate Angels, about the strange times of being young in a small town: it debuted to rave reviews at Gothenburg Film Festival. Then his graduation short film, Steppenwolves,
travelled across Europe.
After school he went back to his underground roots: he wrote, produced and directed the
feature films The Brightening and Preludium - shot in one take, one crazy night down the streets of Nørrebro. With the support of the Danish Film Institute he wrote and directed the follow-up film Prophecy, completing the CPH Trilogy, which will be released this year.