Juries and Awards

Jorunn Myklebust

Jorunn Myklebust Syversen (b. 1978) works as a filmmaker and lives and works in Oslo. She graduated from the Bergen Academy of Arts in 2005 and has since participated in several exhibitions and festivals both nationally and internationally. She produces her own art movies and has written and directed the feature films The Tree Feller (2017) and Disco (2019). Syversen is currently working on developing new projects.

Sveinung Wålengen

Sveinung Wålengen (b. 1985) is cinema manager at Gimle Kino. He has a master’s degree in Film Studies from NTNU. Sveinung had previously been the manager of Verdensteatret Cinematheque in Tromsø, cinema manager in Ås and head of programming at Frogner Kino. He is also a film critic and writer. 

Louise Beyer

Louise Beyer is an Oslo-based producer originally from Copenhagen. She studied film at the European Film College and the Danish independent film school 18Frames and has a bachelor’s degree as a film producer from the Norwegian Film School. 

She won the Amanda Award for best short film with her graduation film Superdupermegagigasingel. The film is distributed by NRK and Arte and has won several awards at festivals. Her experience also includes working as a producer assistant in the renowned production company Snowglobe, working as a project manager for the theater concept HAWAII and holding courses for ACE Training Days Norway and Young Nordic Producers Club. 

When she graduated from Lillehammer in 2022, she started a subdivision in Storm Films in Oslo named Skala. Skala is a talent program that solely focuses on producing low-budget debut films and series by talented instructors and scriptwriters. 

Karianne Berge

Karianne Berge has a master’s degree in documentary directing from The Norwegian Film School in Lillehammer. She has worked in Indie Film since 2008 as a director, distributor and producer. In 2016, she made her debut as a director with the crime documentary The Grenade Man. in 2017, she started Indie Films’ cinema distribution and released The Night (2017) and My Heart Belongs to Daddy (2018). She has produced Even Benestad’s short documentaries The Earth is a Chili (2020) and Emilie Beck’s feature documentary No Place Like Home (2022). During the fall of 2022, the true crime series Direktøren premiered on TV 2 and has since been shown on DR in Denmark, CMore in Sweden, MTV in Finland and Canal+ in Poland. 

Aslaug Holm

Aslaug Holm is a Norwegian director, cinematographer and editor best known for Brothers (2015), about the childhood and upbringing of her two sons. She won the main prize at HotDocs Film Festival in 2016 and the Norwegian Amanda for best director for Brødre, the first time for a documentary filmmaker. She has also directed Generation Utøya (2021), which won the public prize Amanda in 2021. She is co-director and cinematographer of a-ha The Movie (2021). Her latest documentary is Blokka (2023).

Frode Søbstad

Frode Søbstad is associate professor and study program manager in Film and TV at Westerdals, Kristiania. 

Frode has a background as a producer and director, and it is especially as a producer that he has gained recognition. His films have gained wide international attention and received several awards, among others at large festivals such as Berlinalen, Annecy, Venezia IDFA and Nordisk Panorama. The animated feature film The Tower, where Frode was executive producer, was shown at over 200 festivals, received 13 awards and was distributed to nine countries. The film was named the best Norwegian animation of the decade (2010-2020). 

Frode’s broad international network had led to a number of collaborations with known directors from the entire world, like Heddy Honigmann and Pen-ek Ratanaruang.