Ellen Ugelstad

Ellen Ugelstad was born on March 14, 1973, en Oslo, Noruega. She is a visual artist and director and known for The Green Valley (2018), The Meeting Room (2017) and Making Sense Together (2018). She made her debut directorial with the very personal de documentales de Indian Summer (2011) about her younger brother living with a la esquizofrenia. She lived and estudian en California for seven years and received a BFA en Motion Pictures from Academy of Art University en San Francisco before she relocated back to Oslo. She works in a variety of géneros ranging from poético documental to music película, híbridos, and ficción.Her work often explores the thin line between sanity and insanity, the hierarchy of power and explores different forms of reality. Indian Summer lo nominated for the International Young Talent Award at DOK Leipzig and Nordic Dox Premio under CPH:DOX, screened at Nórdicos festival de cine de Alicante, and received two nominations at the Norwegian "Emmy Award" called Gullruten. Her película migrates between different platforms between the film world and art world. The last few years she has explorado, between the lines fiction and documentary and her short film "The Meetingroom" won best screenplay from the Writers Guild at the Norwegian Shortfilmfestival en 2017. Her recent work includes the film-ensayo Making Sense Together, which screened en competition for best Nordic Documental at Oslo:Pix en Junio de 2018. The Green Valley recently received the Golden Chair for best short film at the Norwegian Shortfilm festival. She is also a recipient of a five-year artista grant from the Norwegian Art Council.