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 ' ( 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 Octobe ...

'' (2015). In 2020, she created and wrote the series ''22 juli'' about the

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) ...

with her husband

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 ...

. At the

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 lar ...

she was awarded the 2020 Nordic TV Drama Screenplay Award for her work on ''22 juli''. She was awarded the

Fritt Ord Honorary 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 Or ...

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 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 Produc ...

(2006) * Amanda Award (2010) *

(2020)

References

External links

* 1970 births Living people Norwegian film directors Norwegian women film directors {{Norway-film-director-stub