Eskil Vogt | |
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| Born | 31 October 1974 Oslo, Norway |
| Alma mater | La Fémis |
| Occupation(s) | Film director and screenwriter |
Eskil Vogt (born 31 October 1974) is a Norwegian film director and screenwriter.
Eskil Vogt | |
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| Skyping the Sundance 2014 Awards Ceremony | |
| Born | 31 October 1974 Oslo, Norway |
| Alma mater | La Fémis |
| Occupation(s) | Film director and screenwriter |
Eskil Vogt (born 31 October 1974) is a Norwegian film director and screenwriter.
Born in Oslo on 31 October 1974, Vogt studied at the French film academy La Fémis. [1]
His films include Reprise (2006), Oslo, August 31st (2011), Louder Than Bombs (2015), and Thelma (2017) all of which were directed by Joachim Trier from scripts written by Vogt and Trier. [1] [2]
He also wrote and directed the drama film Blind , which was screened at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and received the World Cinema Screenwriting Award. [3] The film was awarded the Europa Cinemas Label at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. [4]
In 2021, Vogt had two films at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. The Innocents , which he wrote and directed, competed in the Un Certain Regard category while The Worst Person in the World competed for the Palme d'Or. [5] For his work on the latter, Vogt was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 94th Academy Awards.
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Blind is a 2014 Norwegian drama film written and directed by Eskil Vogt. The film premiered in-competition in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at 2014 Sundance Film Festival on 19 January. Vogt received the Screenwriting Award for Blind at Sundance. The film was later screened in the Panorama section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival, and was nominated for the 2014 Nordic Council Film Prize.
Louder Than Bombs is a 2015 drama film directed by Joachim Trier and starring Jesse Eisenberg, Devin Druid, Gabriel Byrne, Isabelle Huppert, David Strathairn, and Amy Ryan. The film was internationally co-produced and was co-written by Trier and Eskil Vogt.
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Procter is a 2002 British-Norwegian short film directed by Joachim Trier, starring John Joyce and Michael Hucks. It tells the story of a man who finds a video tape depicting a mysterious suicide and tries to figure out what happened.
Thelma is a 2017 supernatural thriller drama film directed by Joachim Trier, who co-wrote the screenplay with Eskil Vogt. The film stars Eili Harboe, Kaya Wilkins, Henrik Rafaelsen, and Ellen Dorrit Petersen. Thelma tells the story of a sheltered young woman who discovers she has an inexplicable power that materializes when she feels desire for a female student at her university.
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