Trygve Allister Diesen (Trig Diesen) (born 11 July 1967 in Norway) is a TV and

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, producer, and

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. He has mostly worked in Scandinavia and the US. He is partner in the Scandinavian production compan
tenk.tv
Trygve Allister Diesen graduated from

USC School of Cinematic Arts The University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts (SCA) houses seven academic divisions: Film & Television Production; Cinema & Media Studies; John C. Hench Division of Animation + Digital Arts; John Wells Division of Writing for Sc ...

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. He started his professional career as a journalist in

Kristiansand Kristiansand is a seaside resort city and municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 112,000 as of January 2020, following the incorporation ...

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. Diesen has a comprehensive background in

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and directing for film and TV, in Europe and the USA. He has also translated plays for theaters. In 2010, he was the first to be awarded a practice-based doctorate in directing from the Norwegian Film School, with the project "Being the Director - Maintaining your Vision While Swimming with Sharks", where he explored the nature of keeping a personal, artistic vision in a collective and commercial art form. Diesen's second feature film, '' Hold My Heart'', was Norway's official submission for the 2003

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, and was screened at festivals globally. Diesen is also the creator of the

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n thriller miniseries ''Torpedo''. His first American film ''

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'', starring Brian Cox and

Tom Sizemore Thomas Edward Sizemore Jr. (; born November 29, 1961) is an American actor and producer. He is known for his supporting roles in films such as ''Born on the Fourth of July'' (1989), ''Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man'' (1991), ''Passenger 5 ...

, premiered at the

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in 2008.''Trygve Allister Diesen'' (Den norske filmskolen, Høgskolen i Lillehammer)
Diesen is the director and pilot (conceptual) director on the Norwegian TV serie
''Det tredje øyet''/''The Third Eye''
(2014). He directed two of the episodes of the ABC Networks US series ''The Assets'' (2014).

Filmography

*''Det tredje øyet''/''The Third Eye'' (2014) - director, pilot director *''The Assets '' (2014) - director *''Varg Veum - I mørket er alle ulver grå'' (2011) - writer *''Varg Veum - Svarte får'' (2010) - writer *''Winter - Venaste Land'' (2008) TV miniseries - director *''

'' (2008) - director/producer *''Torpedo'', (2007) TV miniseries - writer/director *''Drømmefangeren'' (2005) TV miniseries - director *'' Tyven tyven'' (2002) or ''Hold My Heart'' - writer/director *''Mørkets øy'' (1997) or ''Island of Darkness'' - writer/director

References

External links

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Trig Diesen homepage
Norwegian film directors 1967 births Living people Norwegian screenwriters Place of birth missing (living people) USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni {{Norway-film-director-stub