Jesper Sichlau was born in 1987 and grew up in a working class home in the outskirts of Copenhagen. Through his upbringing he watched a lot of movies and Saturday-morning cartoons - some would say too many - which is why not much exciting can be said about Jesper's childhood. He original wanted to be a comic book creator and later on a computer animator but all of that changed when he watched The Fellowship of the Ring for the first time. He now decided he wanted to be a film director.
But without friends willing to make short films with him, Jesper found himself in a bit of a pickle. So instead he wrote screenplays, shot boring stuff with his camcorder and edited weird videos. Some years later he took a course at the National Film School of Denmark and got into The European Film College, none of which proved to help him the slightest on his path to become a world renowned film director.
This wasn't exactly what Jesper had in mind, but over time he somehow managed to pull himself together and direct his first unsuccessful short film. Things only went better on from here you'd imagine - but seeing how easily other young filmmakers apparently could cooperate and get funding for their films, left a bitter mark on his soul. Jesper was in need of a break from the business and went back to school and got a bachelor degree in visual communication. He's since had a successful career in advertising which makes it even more ironic that he really suck at selling himself.