The Norwegian Berlinale Talents
Berlinale 2019: Berlinale Talents is the annual summit and networking platform of the Berlin International Film Festival for outstanding creatives from the fields of film and drama. Norway has seven participants. Read about them here.
Mathis Ståle Mathisen
A producer with a focus in film from the Artict and Sami stories, having previously produced both feature films, drama series, documentaries and shorts.
Sofia Haugan
Educated as a director, Haugan had her cinematic debut with the documentary My Heart Belongs to Daddy, which won the audience award at Nordic/Docs and received National Film Award Amanda for Best Documentary.
Hildegunn Wærness
Wærness has a background as a journalist and photographer and studied film in Stockholm and Buenos Aires. She wrote and directed ”Supernerd”, a documentary about cosplayers in Norway, and created and directed the documentary series The Fjord Cowboys. She has directed several ITV-productions, including National Geographic’s Ice Road Rescue.
Fredrik Scholze
Scholze works with marketing arthouse films in the distribution company Arthaus in Oslo where the saying is: We live in a time where old ideas must dissolve and creativity blossom.
Elisa Pirir
Pirir produced her first feature in Norway, Dive, at 23. Her graduation film from the National Film School of Norway was a nominee of the 43th Academy Student Awards. Elisa works for Mer Film AS.
Emilija Skarnulyte
A nomadic visual artist and filmmaker based in Tromsø, Norway. Between the fictive and documentary, she works primarily with deep time, from the cosmic and geologic to the ecological and political.
Beathe Hofseth
A documentary filmmaker graduated from Volda University College and NISS in Oslo. She has worked in film and television since 2002, and has directed and produced several documentaries, among them Light Fly, Fly High which received National Film Award Amanda for Best Documentary, Gullruten for best cinemathography and Oxfam Global Justice Award at IDFA.