Christopher's Christmas Mission

Per Johan Axel Åhlin (born August 7, 1931), is a Swedish artist and animator. Åhlin started his career as an artist for the Hasseåtage production Svenska bilder from 1964. After that he has worked on several other Hasseåtage films, including The Adventures of Picasso from 1978 where he provided and animated Picasso’s paintings. In 1970 he started his own animation studio, PennFilm Studio AB situated in Hököpinge, and has, as of 2009, directed seven feature-length films and several shorts, including Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons Julafton which is shown on television every Christmas Eve in Sweden, Norway and Finland.

He is currently[when?] working on a fourth film about Lilla spöket Laban, a film series aimed for small children. Åhlin has expressed the problem of making animated films with adult themes: “I don’t know whether the problem lies in the audience or the marketing. But think like this: if you draw like Picasso, Doré or Sergel, then that is images that have no connection to film. If they then would be animated and suddenly started to move – would they become children’s film then? I can’t understand this!” —Wikipedia