Joern Utkilen
Joern Utkilen (b. 1971) graduated from both the Edinburgh College of Art and Screen Academy Scotland and has gone on to write and direct a range of comedic films that have been presented at numerous international film festivals and broadcast on several television channels including ARTE and Canal +.
Joern gained a BAFTA Scotland nomination for his controversial film Little Red Hoodie, which was part of the Cinema Extreme scheme. Joern has further developed his style with his black comedy Asylum, funded by Film4 and Creative Scotland. He was in 2012 awarded the “Underground Spirit Award” at the Palic European Film Festival.
Joern also writes and directs under the pseudonym 'Jeorge Elkin' and won the Audience Award at the Clermont-Ferrand Lab Competition for the film Wind Over Lake.
Joern has recently completed Earth Over Wind, a medium-length film financed through the Norwegian Film Institute’s 'New Paths' scheme.
LAKE OVER FIRE is Utkilens debut feature.
Filmography:
2017 Lake Over Fire
2015 Statement Too
2014 Earth Over Wind
2011 Asylum
2011 Wind Over Lake
2008 Little Red Hoodie
2007 No Coke
2007 My New Job
2005 Size 5
2004 Paper Anniversary
2003 Terrorist
2001 My Job III
2000 Paperclipmaker
2000 My Job II
2000 My Job
