Erik Gandini is an Italian-Swedish film director, writer, and producer and professor of documentary film at Stockholm University of the Arts.

He has produced and directed numerous internationally acclaimed documentaries including Surplus – Terrorized into Being Consumers which won the Main Prize at IDFA 2003 and was screened at over 70 festivals around the world. Videocracy was shown at the Venice Film Festival, Toronto IFF, IDFA in 2009 and was nominated for a DOX:AWARD at CPH:DOX. In 2015, The Swedish Theory of Love premiered at the Stockholm International Film Festival and went on a successful international festival tour (CPH:DOX, IDFA) and was theatrically released in many territories. He produced The Raft by Marcus Lindeen which won numerous international awards, e.g. the main competition at CPH:DOX in 2018.