Otto Rosing (born 9 March 1967) is a Greenlandic/Danish film director. He grew up in

Ilulissat Ilulissat, formerly Jakobshavn or Jacobshaven, is the municipal seat and largest town of the Avannaata municipality in western Greenland, located approximately north of the Arctic Circle. With the population of 4,670 as of 2020, it is the t ...

Greenland Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland is t ...

, and later resided in Greenland's capital Nuuk. He now lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. In collaboration with film producer Mikisoq H. Lynge, Otto Rosing and Torben Bech directed Greenland's first international feature film '' Nuummioq''. It was the first Greenlandic film to be submitted for the

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a ...

, but it didn't make the final shortlist. Otto Rosing's youngest brother

Lars Rosing Lars Rosing (born 25 January 1972) is a Danish-Greenlandic actor. Brother of film director Otto Rosing. Born in Maniitsoq, a town in western Greenland, he grew up in Ilulissat Ilulissat, formerly Jakobshavn or Jacobshaven, is the municipal s ...

plays the protagonist Malik in ''Nuummioq''. Otto Rosing has also directed the documentary ''The Eternal flight'' a portrait of the artist Jens Rosing.

References

Nuummioq review in Variety, retrieved 30 April 2010

External links

*Nuummioq official Home Page

*Otto Rosing Official Website

* 1967 births Danish film directors Living people People from Nuuk People from Ilulissat Greenlandic people of Danish descent {{Greenland-bio-stub