Finn Gjerdrum (born 20 March 1961, in Sandefjord) is a Norwegian film producer.
Gjerdrum started his career making short films with Bent Hamer. His first feature-length movie was Hamer's critically acclaimed Eggs , which was awarded the Amanda Award for best Norwegian film in 1995. [1] Gjerdrum has produced several high profile, successful Norwegian movies, including In Order of Disappearance , A Somewhat Gentle Man , Troubled Water , The Last King and The King's Choice , as well as international production such as Dancer in the Dark , [2] A Thousand Times Good Night and Stella Days . Together with Erik Poppe and Harald Rosenløw-Eeg, Gjerdrum was nominated for the Nordic Council Film Prize in 2005, for the film Hawaii, Oslo , [3] but lost to Manslaughter . [4]
Karin Beate "Linn" Ullmann is a Norwegian author and journalist. A prominent literary critic, she also writes a column for Norway's leading morning newspaper and has published six novels.
Bent Hamer is a film director, writer and producer, born in Sandefjord, Norway in 1956.
Erik Poppe is a Norwegian film director, producer and screenwriter.
Nordisk Film A/S is a Danish entertainment company established in 1906 in Copenhagen by filmmaker Ole Olsen. It is the fourth-oldest film studio in the world behind the Gaumont Film Company, Pathé, and Titanus, and the oldest studio to be continuously active.
Lawrence Bender is an American film producer. Throughout his career, Bender-produced films have received 36 Academy Award nominations, resulting in eight wins.
Denmark has been producing films since 1897 and since the 1980s has maintained a steady stream of product due largely to funding by the state-supported Danish Film Institute. Historically, Danish films have been noted for their realism, religious and moral themes, sexual frankness and technical innovation.
Cinema in Norway have a long history, and the country has today a notable film industry.
Kristin Lodoen or Kristin Lødøen is a Norwegian photographer, visual artist, dancer and choreographer.
Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen is a Norwegian film director, producer and writer. He is best known for his action drama IZZAT (2005), his TV series TAXI (2011) as well as documentary films Voluntarily Forced (2014) and Recruiting for Jihad (2017). He often addresses national- and global discussion concerning immigration and racism both in his films as well as being an outspoken newspaper columnist and television debattant. In 2012 he founded the Oslo-based production company Curry Film AS. Other films directed by him, are the crime thriller Varg Veum - Bitter Flowers (2007) and the slacker comedy The Last Joint Venture (2008).
Hawaii, Oslo is a 2004 Norwegian drama film, directed by Erik Poppe with a screenplay by Harald Rosenløw Eeg. It stars Trond Espen Seim, Aksel Hennie, Jan Gunnar Røise and Petronella Barker.
Cary Joji Fukunaga is an American filmmaker. He is known for directing critically acclaimed films such as the thriller Sin nombre (2009), the period drama Jane Eyre (2011), the war drama Beasts of No Nation (2015) and the 25th James Bond film, No Time to Die (2021). He also co-wrote the Stephen King adaptation It (2017). He was the first director of partial East Asian descent to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, as the director and executive producer of the first season of the HBO series True Detective (2014). He also directed and executive produced the Netflix limited series Maniac (2018).
Åsleik Audgar Engmark was a Norwegian comedian, actor, singer, director and stage writer, best known for his work as one of the co-founders of the Norwegian cabaret group Lompelandslaget, and as Timon in the Norwegian version of The Lion King.
Kenneth Elvebakk is a Norwegian documentary film director. He has won several international awards for his documentary films.
Thomas Robsahm is a Norwegian film producer and director.
Don Haig was a Canadian filmmaker, editor, and producer.
Miso Film is a film and television production company based in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was founded by Jonas Allen and Peter Bose in 2004.
Joslyn Barnes is a film producer and writer. Known for Bamako (2006), The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011), Cemetery of Splendour (2015), White Sun (2016), Zama (2017), Strong Island (2017) for which she received an Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking and an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature nomination, and Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018) for which she received an Oscar nomination again for Best Documentary Feature.
Jan Trygve Røyneland is a Norwegian television and film writer. His notable works include The Kings Choice, a film that depicted how Norway entered World War II. For this film, Røyneland was awarded the Amanda Prize for Best Original Screenplay.
Mette Hoffman Meyer is a Danish documentary film producer. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark she is CEO of The Why Foundation, cofounder with an American-born British film director. Mette was previously head of documentaries and co-productions at Denmark’s public service broadcasting cooperation, DR, and commissioning editor of the factual series Dokumania on DR channel 2.
Arild Østin Ommundsen is a Norwegian film director and screenwriter.