Mauritz Brekke Solberg took his Bachelor in directing at Westerdals film school in Oslo and started the production company Férdi Film with 5 partners right out of school. His short documentary "Skeleton Sea" attended festivals around the world and is now on Amazon Prime. Mauritz's bachelor project "Birthright" got attention when it ended up in the final of Student-BAFTA 2018 and the project is now in development as a TV drama. Mauritz has often written and co-directed projects with his colleague Daniel Fure Schwarz and is set to shoot his next short called “Offline” together with Daniel in september. “July.” is his first short as a solo director.