Basic Information
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Full name (public use) | Kelly Lovisa Stormare Wedin |
| Also known as | Kelly Stormare; Kelly Stormare Wedin |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Occupations | Film director, filmmaker, musician, creative producer |
| Active years | 2010s–present (registered as a sole trader in Sweden since 2021) |
| Notable works | Sabertooth (short, 2023); Blue (short) |
| Education | Pratt Institute (film/arts studies) |
| Businesses | Sole-proprietor film/video and artistic practice (Sweden) |
| Associated ventures | Stormare Bryggeri (family microbrewery) |
| Languages | Swedish, English |
| Family | Father: Peter Stormare; Mother: Karen Sillas; Half-sister: Kaiya Bella Luna Stormare |
| Birth year | 1989 (reported) |
A creative profile: film, music, and multidisciplinary work
Kelly Stormare threads together a multidisciplinary life: short films, music, and small-scale entrepreneurship. Her film work leans toward shorts and experimental pieces—intimate formats that demand precision—where she directs, writes, and often shepherds projects from concept to post-production. The short film Sabertooth (completed 2023) marked a visible step onto festival programs in Sweden, including screenings in Stockholm and Uppsala, with additional selections across regional events. Another short, Blue, appears in festival listings and director portfolios that trace her stylistic evolution from visual sketches to more fully formed narrative capsules.
Her creative tempo isn’t confined to film. Kelly’s musical footprint—guitar credits on recordings and occasional DJ or club performances—suggests a maker comfortable living between disciplines. That dual fluency shows up in her films, where sound design and music cues do heavy lifting and the pacing feels closer to rhythm than to purely literary structure. In short: she edits like a musician, cuts like a drummer, listens like a director.
The professional framework around her practice is lean and practical. Since 2021, she has operated a registered sole proprietorship in Sweden that covers film/video production, post-production, and artistic services. It’s a familiar model for independent creatives: one person, wearing many hats, building a slate of projects and collaborations while interfacing with festivals, galleries, and small clients. The work itself, rather than a sprawling corporate footprint, is the point.
Brewing with family: Stormare Bryggeri
Some careers stay in one lane; Kelly’s takes a scenic route. Alongside her father, actor and musician Peter Stormare, she’s involved with a microbrewery that foregrounds craft, storytelling, and place. Stormare Bryggeri isn’t merely a side hustle; it’s a family venture where identity—Swedish roots, creative heritage, hands-on making—gets distilled into bottles and small-batch releases. The brewery’s imagery and short reels often show Kelly at the heart of the operation, a creative director’s eye applied to labels, mood, and micro-stories that flow around the beverages themselves.
There’s a thematic rhyme here. Filmmaking and brewing each demand patience, iteration, and the delicate balance between recipe and improvisation. Both fields are tactile, and both reward taste—literal in one case, aesthetic in the other. In Kelly’s public footprint, these efforts sit comfortably side by side, a reminder that contemporary artists can be both auteur and artisan.
Filmography highlights
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Sabertooth | Director | Short film; screened at Swedish festivals; listed on filmmaker portfolios |
| 2020s | Blue | Director | Short film; appears in festival/director listings |
| Various | Music/visual projects | Contributor/Performer | Guitar credits and performance appearances across select creative projects |
These works point to a filmmaker refining a personal tone—genre-tinged, character-focused, and attentive to sound and atmosphere. The shorts format doubles as laboratory and showcase, allowing for faster iterations, festival feedback, and the kind of intimate production scale that keeps authorship close to the surface.
Family and relationships
| Name | Relation | Notability | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Stormare | Father | Swedish-American actor and musician | Known for Fargo, Prison Break, film and stage work; co-runs microbrewery with Kelly |
| Karen Sillas | Mother | Actor | Stage and screen credits; married to Peter from 1989 to 2006 |
| Kaiya Bella Luna Stormare | Half-sister | — | Daughter of Peter from a later relationship |
| Karl Ingvar Storm | Paternal grandfather | — | Family lineage noted in public genealogies |
| Gunhild Kristina (Holm) | Paternal grandmother | — | Family lineage noted in public genealogies |
The public record consistently identifies Kelly as the daughter of Peter Stormare and Karen Sillas, situating her at a crossroads of Swedish and American creative traditions. That biographical hinge—European art-house sensibilities meeting American indie hustle—often shows up in her projects: small cast, sharp mood, crisp runtime.
Timeline
- 1989 (reported): Birth year associated with public profiles and genealogies.
- 2000s–2010s: Early creative activities in Sweden and the United States; music and visual work circulate in small venues and online portfolios.
- 2021: Registers a single-person business in Sweden focused on film/video production, post-production, and artistic services.
- 2023:
- Completes Sabertooth (short).
- Begins a festival run in Sweden with additional submissions across the circuit.
- 2023–2025: Public involvement with Stormare Bryggeri expands through product launches, brand storytelling, and short-form videos.
- 2024: Continued festival appearances for Sabertooth and related programming at regional arts events.
Craft notes: style, themes, and method
Kelly’s films build atmosphere with economical means: pared-down dialogue, emphasis on framing and negative space, and sound choices that nudge emotion without instructing it. The stories flirt with genre edges—tension, psychological drift, the uncanny—yet stay grounded in the textures of daily life. Think of her shorts like postcards from a border town between realism and dream: the stamp is real, the address precise, but the air smells slightly of myth.
Her method favors tight crews and iterative edits. That’s partly a reality of independent production budgets, partly a preference for creative control. The result is work that feels hand-shaped rather than machine-stamped—a small-batch ethos in cinematic form.
Community and presence
Kelly’s professional presence is scattered across the places working artists actually live: festival catalogs, filmmaker platforms, portfolio pages, and social clips tied to screenings or releases. Rather than cultivating a loud, celebrity-facing profile, she maintains a focused corridor where curators, collaborators, and audiences can find the essentials—loglines, stills, bios, and screening history. It’s a pragmatic, craftsmanlike model of visibility: less billboard, more bulletin board.
FAQ
Who is Kelly Stormare?
A Swedish filmmaker and musician active since the 2010s, known for short films like Sabertooth and for a multidisciplinary, small-batch approach to creative work.
How is she related to Peter Stormare?
She is publicly identified as Peter Stormare’s daughter; they also collaborate on a family microbrewery.
Who is her mother?
Her mother is actor Karen Sillas, noted for stage and screen performances.
Does she have siblings?
Yes, she has a younger half-sister, Kaiya Bella Luna Stormare.
What are her notable films?
Sabertooth (2023) is her most visible recent short, with additional shorts such as Blue appearing in festival and portfolio listings.
Where did she study?
Public profiles list study at Pratt Institute, focusing on film and the arts.
Does she run a company?
Yes, she operates a Swedish sole proprietorship for film/video production and artistic services.
Is she active on major video platforms?
Her work appears primarily through festivals and curated platforms, with short-form clips tied to screenings and the microbrewery’s brand storytelling.
