Sara Johnsen

Sara Johnsen (born 4 March 1970) is a Norwegian film director and author.[1]

Sara Johnsen
Born (1970-03-04) 4 March 1970
Oslo, Norway
OccupationAuthor, Film director
Years active2002-present

Career

Johnsen's first feature film Kissed by Winter was nominated for the 2005 Nordic Council Film Prize.[2] 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.[3] At the Göteborg Film Festival she was awarded the 2020 Nordic TV Drama Screenplay Award for her work on 22 juli.[4] She was awarded the Fritt Ord Honorary Award in 2020, along with Pål Sletaune.[5]

Johnsen has written the novels White Man and He Knows Something She Can Try.[2]

Selected filmography
Film
Year Title Notes
2005 Kissed by Winter
2009 Upperdog
2012 All That Matters Is Past

Awards

References
  1. "Sara Johnsens store Amanda-kveld".
  2. "Sara Johnsen and Juho Kuosmanen on the impact of Covid-19". Nordisk Film & TV Fond. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  3. Pickard, Michael (24 January 2020). "Norway's darkest day". Drama Quarterly. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  4. "Writer Sara Johnsen wins the 2020 Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize for "22 July"". Nordisk Film & TV Fond. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  5. "Fritt Ords Honnør 2020 - Sara Johnsen og Pål Sletaune". frittord.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 9 July 2020.


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