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Sara Johnsen
Sara Johnsen (born 4 March 1970) is a Norwegian film director and author. Career Johnsen's first feature film ''Kissed by Winter'' was nominated for the 2005 Nordic Council Film Prize. Johnsen was an additional writer on the first series of the television series ''Occupied'' (2015). In 2020, she created and wrote the series ''22 juli'' about the Utoya mass shooting with her husband Pål Sletaune. At the Göteborg Film Festival she was awarded the 2020 Nordic TV Drama Screenplay Award for her work on ''22 juli''. She was awarded the Fritt Ord Award, Fritt Ord Honorary Award in 2020, along with Pål Sletaune. Johnsen has written the novels ''White Man'' and ''He Knows Something She Can Try''. Selected filmography Awards *The Kanon Award (2006) *List of Amanda Award winners, Amanda Award (2010) *Fritt Ord Honorary Award (2020) References External links * 1970 births Living people Norwegian film directors Norwegian women film directors {{Norway-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oslo
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of in 2019, and the metropolitan area had an estimated population of in 2021. During the Viking Age the area was part of Viken. Oslo was founded as a city at the end of the Viking Age in 1040 under the name Ánslo, and established as a ''kaupstad'' or trading place in 1048 by Harald Hardrada. The city was elevated to a bishopric in 1070 and a capital under Haakon V of Norway around 1300. Personal unions with Denmark from 1397 to 1523 and again from 1536 to 1814 reduced its influence. After being destroyed by a fire in 1624, during the reign of King Christian IV, a new city was built closer to Akershus Fortress and named Christiania in honour of the king. It became a municipality ('' formannskapsdistrikt'') on 1 January 1838. The city fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Norway has a total area of and had a population of 5,425,270 in January 2022. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden at a length of . It is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast and the Skagerrak strait to the south, on the other side of which are Denmark and the United Kingdom. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. The maritime influence dominates Norway's climate, with mild lowland temperatures on the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Occupied
' (Norwegian: ') is a Norwegian political thriller TV series that premiered on TV2 on 5 October 2015. Based on an original idea by Jo Nesbø, the series is co-created with Karianne Lund and Erik Skjoldbjærg. Season 2 premiered on 10 October 2017. The third and final season started airing in Scandinavia on 5 December 2019, and was released in many countries via Netflix on 31 December 2019. With a budget of 90 million kr (US$11 million), the series is the most expensive Norwegian production to date and has been sold to the UK, Germany, France, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Serbia, Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Spain, Portugal, and Canada. It is also streamed by Netflix in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Ireland, the United Kingdom, India, Singapore, Canada, Belgium, Italy, South Africa and the Netherlands. The series depicts a fictional near future in which, due to catastrophic environmental events, Norway's Prime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utoya Mass Shooting
The 2011 Norway attacks, referred to in Norway as 22 July ( no, 22. juli) or as 22/7, were two domestic terrorist attacks by neo-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik against the government, the civilian population, and a Workers' Youth League (AUF) summer camp, in which 77 people were killed. The first attack was a car bomb explosion in Oslo within Regjeringskvartalet, the executive government quarter of Norway, at 15:25:22 (CEST). The bomb was placed inside a van next to the tower block housing the office of the then Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. The explosion killed eight people and injured at least 209 people, twelve severely. The second attack occurred less than two hours later at a summer camp on the island of Utøya in Tyrifjorden, Viken (former Buskerud). The camp was organised by the AUF, the youth wing of the ruling Norwegian Labour Party (AP). Breivik, dressed in a homemade police uniform and showing false identification, took a ferry to the island and opened fire a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pål Sletaune
Pål Sletaune (born 4 March 1960) is a Norwegian film director and photographer. His films include '' Junk Mail'', '' Naboer'' and '' The Monitor''. He was awarded the Amanda Award in 1997, and the Fritt Ord Honorary Award in 2020. Early life Born in Oslo he attended Asker high school and studied still photography at Sogn vocational school. Career Sletaune's film '' Junk Mail'' about a snooping Oslo postman was awarded the Amanda Award for best Norwegian film in 1997. Among his other films are ''Amatørene'' (2001), the thriller '' Naboer'' (2005), and '' The Monitor'' (2011, originally known as ''Babycall'') which starred Noomi Rapace. He famously rejected an offer to direct '' American Beauty''. Alongside other Norwegian film directors, Sletaune directed two episodes in the first season of ''Occupied'', which was at the time the most expensive home television drama. In 2020, Sletaune directed the six episodes of the television series ''22. juli''. He was also the show's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Göteborg Film Festival
Göteborg Film Festival (GFF), formerly Göteborg International Film Festival (GIFF), known in English as the Gothenburg Film Festival, formerly Gothenburg International Film Festival, is an annual film festival in Gothenburg, Sweden and the largest film event in Scandinavia. When it was launched in 1979 it showed 17 films on 3 screens and had 3,000 visitors. Today, the film festival takes place over 10 days each year at the end of January and beginning of February. In later years around 450 films from 60 countries are screened for 115,000 visitors. The film festival is also an important market place for the contractors in the movie industry. Awards the following prizes were awarded: Dragon Awards *Dragon Award Best Nordic Film (Nordiska filmpriset) *Dragon Award Best Acting (since 2019) *Audience Dragon Award Best Nordic Film – (Nordiska Filmpriset – Publikens val) *Dragon Award Best Nordic Documentary (since 2013) *Dragon Award Best International Film * Honorary Dragon A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritt Ord Award
Fritt Ord Award consists of two prizes awarded by the Fritt Ord Foundation (''Stiftelsen Fritt Ord''). Two prizes are awarded in support of freedom of speech and freedom of expression; the Fritt Ord Award ( no, Fritt Ords pris) and the Fritt Ord Honorary Award ( no, Fritt Ords honnør). These are awards are distributed annually during the month of May in connection with the anniversary of the liberation of Norway at the end of World War II in May 1945. Prizes are awarded to one or more persons or organizations that have contributed to areas where the organization works, especially in the work of freedom of expression. In addition to a monetary reward, the award includes a statue by sculptor Nils Aas. Fritt Ord Foundation was founded on 7 June 1974 by Jens Henrik Nordlie (1910–1996) who served as CEO of Narvesen from 1957 to 1975, corporate director Finn Skedsmo and jurist Jens Christian Hauge (1915–2006) . The foundation was funded by Narvesen, the Norwegian ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kissed By Winter
''Kissed by Winter'' ( no, Vinterkyss) is a Norwegian film that first premiered February 11, 2005 starring Norwegian actor Kristoffer Joner and Swedish actress Annika Hallin. Vinterkyss is similar to the Danish Danish may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark People * A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark * Culture of Denmark * Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish a ... film '' Brødre'' in that it paints a very real picture of what can happen to family members in the event of an unexpected death. The movie is about the pain and sorrow that occurs after a loved one's death, as well as how love can appear in the most unexpected of places, even if it is not wanted. The film shows, in an authentic and convincing way, the daily lives of the characters, as well as what it is like to live in a very small community in a very large world. Victoria (Annika Hallin) starts a new life as a doctor in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upperdog
Upperdog is a 2009 Norwegian comedy film directed by Sara Johnsen. Cast *Hermann Sabado as Axel *Agnieszka Grochowska as Maria *Mads Sjøgård Pettersen as Per *Bang Chau as Yanne * as Susanne Holmboe *Ole Paus as Fredrik * as Anne *Kjersti Holmen Kjersti Holmen (8 February 1956 – 26 September 2021) was a Norwegian actress. She was born on Nøtterøy, and later moved to Alnabru, where she grew up with her parents and two sisters. She graduated from the Norwegian National Academy of The ... as Else Beate * Vidar Sandem as Hans Martin * Tone Danielsen as Ruth References External links * 2009 comedy films Films directed by Sara Johnsen Norwegian comedy films {{Norway-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All That Matters Is Past
''All That Matters Is Past'' ( no, Uskyld) is a 2012 Norwegian drama film directed by Sara Johnsen. Cast * Maria Bonnevie as Janne * Kristoffer Joner as William * David Dencik as Ruud * Maria Heiskanen as Ragnhild * Tea Sandanger as Janne 14 * Åsmund Høeg as William 14 * Trond Nilssen as Ruud 18 * Line Billa Ljøstad as Janne 18 * Mads Sjøgård Pettersen as William 18 * Emil Johnsen as Mads References External links * 2012 films Films directed by Sara Johnsen 2010s Norwegian-language films 2012 drama films Norwegian drama films {{Norway-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kanon Award
The Kanon Award is one of the movie awards of Norwegian film festival Kosmorama. Every year during ''Kosmorama'', the Kanon Award is given to a selected individual within a category. The categories include Best Actor, Best Director and Best Producer. Categories Best Director Best Producer Best Main Actor Best Supporting Actor Best Cinematographer Best Writer Best Editing Best Sound Design Best Soundtrack Best Innovation People's Choice Award The Kanon Award 2005 Best Director: Hans Petter Moland - The Beautiful Country Best Writer: Aksel Hennie - Uno Best Editing: Einar Egeland - Hawaii, Oslo Best Cinematographer: ''John Andreas Andersen'' - Uno Best Main Actor: Aksel Hennie - Uno Best Supporting Actor: Stig Henrik Hoff - "Hawaii, Oslo" Best Producer: ''Jørgen Storm Rosenberg'' - Uno People's Choice Award: Uno The Kanon Award 2006 Best Director: Sara Johnsen - Vinterkyss Best Sound Design: ''Christian Schaanning'' - Naboer Best Cinematographer: ''O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Amanda Award Winners
The following is a list of Amanda Award winners within the main categories awarded at the annual Norwegian International Film Festival since the award's initiation in 1985. In 1993, the so-called "Nordic Amanda" honoured cinematic achievements from all the Nordic countries. This practice was discontinued the following year, but an award for best Nordic film was awarded until the year 2000. Categories ''The list of categories is incomplete.'' Best Film (Norwegian) 1985–2004 the Amanda Award for Best Norwegian Film was given to the director. In 2005 this practice was changed, and the award is now given to the film's producer. Best Director The award for best director has only been awarded since 2005. Before this the best film award, which is now given to the producer, was given to the director. People's Amanda Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Role Given intermittently up until 2007, starting in 2008 this award is given out in both a male and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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