Age: 59
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Johan Renck is one of the most respected and sought after directors of commercials and music videos today, so much so that the French magazine CB News dubbed him "the number one director of commercials and music videos in the world ". His directing career started in 1992 when he joined the production company Mekano Film and Television in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1994 he left Mekano to join forces with childhood friend director Jonas Åkerlund. They established a new production company, Renck Åkerlund Films, which immediately became one of the leaders of its kind in Sweden. During the same time he worked with his music project, Stakka Bo, with big success and a lot of his time was occupied by the music career. In 1997 he started to work as a director full time and quickly became a well-known name worldwide and in 1999 he was working with Madonna and Nike among others.
In 1990s Los Angeles, four young Armenian Americans—shaped by migration, inherited trauma, and buried anger—create a sound unlike anything their generation has heard. Rising from small clubs to the world’s biggest stages, System of a Down becomes the voice of a restless generation through music that is chaotic, political, absurd, and impossible to ignore. But as the band’s fame grows, so does the divide between Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian over creativity, control, and the future of the group. While the four members fight to deliver a shared message to the world, they discover that staying united may be harder than challenging the entire system. Victims of a Down is the story of four artists who found one voice—but could never agree on a single truth.
