Sara Johnsen
Sara Johnsen (born 4 March 1970) is a Norwegian film director and author.
Sara Johnsen
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- Name
- Sara Johnsen
- Born
- 4 March 1970
- Birthplace
- Oslo, Norway
- Occupation
- Author, Film director
- Full name
- Sara Eva Johnsen.
- Nationality
- Norway.
- Fields
- film direction and literature.
- Honours
- Kanon prize for best direction, Kanon prize for best screenplay, Arne Skouen's Honour Award and Norwegian Film Critics’ Award.
- Languages
- Norwegian.
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Sara Johnsen (born 4 March 1970) is a Norwegian film director and author.
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Sara Johnsen (born 1970) is a director, screenwriter and writer, of Norwegian nationality. The director was born Sara Eva Johnsen in Nes Municipality. Activity centred on film direction and literature.
Languages used include Norwegian. Honours include Arne Skouen's Honour Award, Kanon prize for best direction and Kanon prize for best screenplay, among others.
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• Name — Sara Johnsen • Born — 4 March 1970 • Birthplace — Oslo, Norway • Occupation — Author, Film director • Years Active — 2002-present
Career
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 (2015). In 2020, she created and wrote the series 22 juli about the Utoya mass shooting with her husband Pål Sletaune. At the Göteborg Film Festival she was awarded the 2020 Nordic TV Drama Screenplay Award for her work on 22 juli. She was awarded the Fritt Ord Honorary Award in 2020, along with Pål Sletaune. Johnsen has written the novels White Man and He Knows Something She Can Try.
Selected filmography
Selected filmography
Film • Year — Title — Notes • 2005 — Kissed by Winter • 2009 — Upperdog • 2012 — All That Matters Is Past
Awards
• The Kanon Award (2006) • Amanda Award (2010) • Fritt Ord Honorary Award (2020)
Sara Johnsen at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the mini-series Trolösa (Faithless).
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- 1.Sara Johnsens store Amanda-kveld.
- 2.Sara Johnsen and Juho Kuosmanen on the impact of Covid-19. Nordisk Film & TV Fond.
- 3.Pickard, Michael. Norway's darkest day. Drama Quarterly. 24 January 2020.
- 4.Writer Sara Johnsen wins the 2020 Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize for "22 July". Nordisk Film & TV Fond.
- 5.Fritt Ords Honnør 2020 - Sara Johnsen og Pål Sletaune. frittord.no.
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