Viktor Israel Strand is an artist and filmmaker born in 1989 in Degerfors, Sweden. He lives and works in Malmö and earned his Master's in Fine Arts from Malmö Art Academy in 2022. His videos have been exhibited in galleries and film festivals, including the Gothenburg Film Festival, Flimmer, and Uppsala Film Festival. "It is Lit" (2023) is his feature film debut and hade its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2024.