Even Benestad (born 16 September 1974 in

Grimstad Grimstad () is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It belongs to the geographical region of Sørlandet. The administrative center of the municipality is the town of Grimstad. Some of the villages in Grimstad include Eide, Espenes, Fevik, ...

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 t ...

) is a Norwegian

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

director. Benestad studied

cinematography Cinematography (from ancient Greek κίνημα, ''kìnema'' "movement" and γράφειν, ''gràphein'' "to write") is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography. Cinematographers use a lens to focu ...

at Oslo Film and Television Academy. His first feature-length documentary All About My Father (2002), which was winner of the "Best Film" award (fiction and non-fiction) at the Amanda Awards in 2002. He is a huge fan of Italian

Spaghetti Western The Spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's film-making style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most o ...

s, and other Italian b-pictures.

Filmography

*'' All About My Father'' (Alt om min far) (2002) *'' Natural Born Star'' (2007) *'' Tempus Fugit(short)'' (2008) *'' Pushwagner'' (2011) *'' 300 Seconds (series: episode, Ida's Diary)'' (2011) *''

Club 7 Club 7 was a cultural club in Oslo, Norway, active from 1963 to 1985. It was regarded a centre for counterculture in Norway in the 1960s through the 1970s. There was a wide tolerance for alternative lifestyles, including homosexuality. History Clu ...

'' (2014)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Benestad, Even Norwegian documentary filmmakers 1974 births Living people People from Grimstad