Stig G?sta Henning Stigson Bj?rkman, born October 2, 1938 in Stockholm, is a Swedish writer, film director and film critic Bj?rkman was the editor of the film magazine Chaplin 1964-1972 and with great dedication written a number of books on the art of film and interview books with, among others, Ingmar Bergman, Woody Allen and Lars von Trier. As a director he made his debut with the short film "Letitia" feature film debut with "Jag ?lskar, du ?lskar". In 1972 he made the American film" Georgia, Georgia" about the Black American singer Georgia Martin and in 1975 he received his artistic breakthrough with "Den vita v?ggen" . The protagonist Harriet Andersson got multiple awards for her role as a divorced housewife. Bj?rkman has often worked with the writer Sun Axelsson. He has also done translations for a wide range of artistic, foreign cinema films to Swedish. After making a number of internationally distributed documentary films about Ingmar Bergman, Bj?rkman was asked, facing the 100th anniversary of Ingrid Bergman birth, by daughter Isabella Rossellini if he would undertake the making of a filmography about Ingrid Bergman, based on her private diaries and films of the family's private collection. The two-hour film "Jag ?r Ingrid"attracted attention at the premiere at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where Ingrid Bergman was the festival's main personality of the year.