films
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Bullets Feature film, 2023
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Beneath the Fire / Under Elden Short film, 16mm, 10min, 2021
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Oh Deer VR / short film & installation, 2016
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Boy-Razor Short film, 16mm, 11min, 2015
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Not Like Others / Vampyrer Feature film, 16mm, 2008
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Futurevision Short film / TV film, 5min, 2006
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The Gift / Paketet Short film, 17min, 2006
about

ABOUT THIN SKIN FILMS

Thin Skin Films is a collaboration between producer Patrick Sobieski and writer / director Peter Pontikis. Thin Skin has made a string of films (shorts, feature and VR), all defined by their human subjects, visceral execution and mix of tension driven plots and art-house sensibility. One of the latest being ‘Beneath the Fire’, 2021, a 16mm short based on characters and fragments from Lars Norén’s play COLD and the feature film ‘Bullets’, 2023.

In February 2023 the feature film Bullets premiered at Santa Barbara International Film Festival and Buff Film Festival in Malmö, Sweden. Bullets will be released theatrically in Sweden 28th of April. Currently Thin Skin is in development with the next feature film. Thin Skin films have been in festival competitions and screenings all over the world and our films have been broadcasted thru HBO, Amazon, SVT, Dark Corner Studios, TV4 Film, Showtime, Canal + and many more.

Selected festivals: Santa Barbara, Buff, Nouveau Cinema Montreal, Zlin, Cannes, Oberhausen, Clermont-Ferrand, Rooftop NYC, Karlovy Vary, Mar del Plata, Palm Springs, Nordische Filmtage, Giff, Bryssel, Malmo, Aliens & Outcast, Olympia, The Hobo, Nordisk Panorama, World Congress of Science and Factual Producers.

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team

Peter Pontikis

Peter Pontikis studied psychology and philosophy at the University of Stockholm before shifting into art studies, mostly video and photography, at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. His thesis film, THE GIFT, loosely based on a Velvet Underground song, gave him attention as a director and played A-list festivals like Karlovy Vary and Mar Del Plata. He followed up with the cult feature NOT LIKE OTHERS, a moody vampire drama and in 2015 he directed the award winning short BOY-RAZOR.

In 2016, as part of the Swedish Film Institutes Short film Horror initiative “It’s Alive”, Peter directed the first Swedish virtual-reality fiction project: OH DEER!, a short experimental horror (in 3D), where the spectator is put in the perspective of a wounded deer during a deer-hunt.

His second feature BULLETS, a hard-hitting drama that grapples with the importance of being allowed to remain a child in a world where circumstances don’t allow it, was released in 2023 to great acclaim followed by a successful festival run resulting in multiple awards and North American distribution.

Peter is currently working on his third feature with support from the Swedish Film Institute.

Patrick Sobieski

Patrick Sobieski has bachelor’s degrees in Literature & Cinema studies from Stockholm University and studied film production at Stockholm University of the Arts.

Patrick has been active as a producer since 2005 and has produced shorts, features, VR, commercials and recently a Netflix series.

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