about
I’m a Sami film director and screenwriter. The Sami are the indigenous peoples of the northern part of Norway, Sweden, Finland and much of the Kola Peninsula in Russia. I grew up in a small village far up north in Norway where I made my first films, Lego and clay animation, as an early teen with my father’s Super 8 film camera. In 2002 I graduated from The Norwegian Film School. After film school I have been developing different unique ways of eye-catching storytelling using humor, disturbing moods, visual effects and majestic images. I live in Jessheim, Norway.
FESTIVAL AND SCREENING MILESTONES
Feature film selected for Toronto International Film Festival
Feature film shortlisted for European Film Award
Winner: Best short film at Nuuk International Film Festival
Winner: Certificate of the Ecumenical Jury at Oberhausen International Short Film Festival
Selected for CamerImage, Nordic Film days Lübeck, Palm Springs International ShortFest, PÖFF - Just Film, Tampere Film Festival, Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Motovun Film Festival, Reykjavik International Film Festival + more than 100 other festival screenings
6 short films selected for Norwegian Short Film Festival
7 short films selected for Tromsø International Film Festival
3 short films selected for Høstutstillingen - National Art Exhibition
4 short films sold for screening at NRK - the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
3 short films sold for screening at UR – Swedish Television
LIST OF FILMS
Feature film:
Short films:
The handsome in the mirror / Fávru Speadjalis (2020)
Corona, trampoline & jigsaw puzzle / Corona, trampoline & puslespill (2020)
What we talk about when we talk about fish / Guolleságat (2018)
Awake at night / Våkenatt (2005)
Dangerous Nikolai / Farlig Nikolai (2005)
Fourteen Fatale / Fjortis Fatale (2004)
Music videos:
Elle Maija: Áibbašeapmi (2024)
Snurr-Musikkeriet: God helg, elg (2022)
Donkeyboy: Kentucky (2021)
Norwegian Thunderboys: Don’t blame it on me (2021)
Øyet: Hopp for hjertet (2018)
Norwegian Thunderboys: Coco Jambo (2018)
MÅSØ: Reabbá sieidi (2018)
Slincraze: Stallu (2017)
Rugged Wilderness & Mountain Man No More: Dropping Feathers (2011)