Lisa Aschan (born 1978) is a Swedish film director and screenwriter. Aschan went to film school in Stockholm and Denmark. During her studies, she became known for a commercial series called Fuck the Rapist! about a rape-protection. She worked as a director's assistant before releasing her first feature film, Apflickorna, in 2011, which garnered numerous film festival awards. In 2011, she was also awarded a 5million Swedish kronor award by the Stockholm Film Festival' for her new project, Det vita folket (The White People), a science fiction-inspired story about government deportation camps.[1][2] However, Aschan declined the money for the film,[1] which later premiered in 2015.[3] At Sweden's 2016 Guldbaggen Awards, Aschan was filmed in the audience giving the finger to Swedish cinematographer Gösta Reiland[4] who had won the award for Best Cinematography[5] besting Linda Wassberg in the same category for Det vita folket.[6]
Aschan was born in 1978 in Vejbystrand.[7] At the age of twelve, she moved to Gothenburg and then studied at a boarding school in England.[8] After that she studied at Stockholms Filmskola between 1989 and 1999, and at the National Film School of Denmark from 2001 to 2005 to become a director.[9][10] During her studies, she became known for the commercials Fuck the Rapist!, a number of commercial films about a rape-protection consisting of an awl-clad tampon.[11] Her short films In Transit and Goodbye Bluebird, which were made during the same time, have been shown at different film festivals.[12][13]
Career
In 2009, she was a director's assistant at the Royal Dramatic Theatre and directed the Danish TV series Thea & leoparden for DR's child TV section; the series has also been broadcast in Sweden and several other countries. The three-part series is about a girl who pretends to be a leopard.[14] Aschan has stated that she likes to use animal parables in her productions to make it more clear about human behavioural patterns.[14]
In 2011, Aschan was awarded the Stockholm Film Festival's newly created long-film scholarship of 5million Swedish kronor (about €550,000, £480,000, or $770,000 in 2011) for her new project, Det vita folket, a science fiction-inspired story about the camps where the government places foreigners that are awaiting deportation.[1][2] Aschan declined the money as she did not feel that her project fell under the rules of the award.[1] Aschan has described Det vita folket as a space epos with inspiration from the horror film The Shining.[18][19] The film had its premiere in 2015.[3]
At the 2016 Guldbaggen Awards, Aschan was filmed in the audience giving the finger and saying "Fuck You" to Swedish cinematographer Gösta Reiland.[4] This was after Reiland had won the award for Best Cinematography, and was on his way up to the stage to receive the award.[5]Linda Wassberg, who had filmed Det vita folket, was also nominated in the same category, and Aschan called it a "spontaneous reaction" to Wassberg losing to Reiland.[6]
↑ Domellöf-Wik, Maria (30 November 2015). "Lisa Aschan utforskar relationer". Göteborgs-Posten (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 30 January 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
↑ "She Monkeys" (in Swedish). Female First. 4 October 2011. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
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