Urban Skargren, born 1968, is a Swedish film & TV director. He studied filmmaking at School of Digital Filmmaking in Kona, United States, and has worked with film in Colombia, Sweden, United States and Australia. After working as a journalist, Urban started making short films in 2005. He has since directed a dozen of short films and tv pilots, and another dozen of commercials. He has also written and produced most of his own films and has worked as a production manager for a number of international documentaries in Colombia.
Urban Skargren is fluent in Swedish, English and Spanish and currently lives in Sweden.
Selected film works as a director:
The Wedding - feature film (2024) - in post-production
The Citizen Has Been Blocked - 19 min short film (2022)
Los Bravo - 12 min web series pilot (2020)
Salomé - 15 min short film (2017/2019)
Deadlock (Sin Reversa) - 6 min short film (2013/2019)
Una comuna como ninguna - 28 min tv pilot (2015)
Seleccion Ganadora - 12 min short film (2014)
Let it Out - 9 min short film (2009)
Cannelloni for Two - 5 min short film (2009)
Frisbee - 30 min short film (2007/2008)
Urban’s films have together reached over 9 million views on YouTube.