Anne Østensen Sewitsky (1978) is a well known Norwegian director born in Oslo. She studied at the Norwegian Film School and graduated in 2006 with her short "Hjertekutt" as her diploma film. After that, she went on to direct the short "Oh My God!" (2008) which got awarded with the Special Prize of the Deutsches Kinderhilfswerkin in the Generation Kplus programme of the 2009 Berlin Film Festival.Her first feature was the comedy "Sykt lykkelig" (2010) which she won the 'World Grand Jury Prize' at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011. This was the first Norwegian feature to win Sundance prize. The same feature was the same year also chosen to be the Norwegian Oscar candidate. Her second feature followed shortly and was a children's drama named "Jørgen + Anne = Sant". The film premiered at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival, opening the Generation Kplus programme that year with a great reception. Never before has a Norwegian feature had the honour of opening the generation programme.
Her last feature "De nærmeste" 2015 was also taken to the main competition in the Sundance Film Festival and was also presented at the Contemporary World Cinema-programme in Toronto.
Sewitsky has also worked in television, directing four episodes of the popular, Norwegian drama series "Himmelblå" for the Norwegian Broadcasting Company (NRK), and some episodes of "Koselig med peis". She has recently finished directing a new TV series for NRK called "Monster", a thriller drama which will be broadcasted later this year.
In 2015 Sewitsky was awarded with Liv Ullman's prize of honour and Edith Carlmars' prize of honour.
One of Sewitsky's trademarks is that she mainly choose to work with projects that are bound to realism, set to present day, mostly comedies and dramas, not too dark (with the exception of "Monster" which is a thriller drama with bits of unrealism in it.
The reason why I chose her as a director is that I find her very inspiring. She's a quite young, female director who has accomplished a lot since she graduated in 2006. I also like the projects she's been working on and how she is on set as I was fortune enough to work with her on the TV series "Monster".
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Trine - when researching a director like this, the most useful aspect is what you covered in the last paragraph - why you chose her and how it affects your own work. That's what we really want to know. Always focus on that.
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