Anna-Maria Christina Olofson (born June 13, 1948 in Kristinehamn, Värmlands län, Sweden) is a Swedish film director, producer and scriptwriter. In 1974, after founding the Hagafilm production company with Göran du Rées, she went on to produce a number of films with him. She has since made a number of documentaries on women's contributions to society, including '' A Woman Is a Risky Bet: Six Orchestra Conductors'' (1987) and ''I rollerna tre'' (1996), as well as the feature films ''Honungsvargar'' (1990) and ''

Sanning eller konsekvens ''Sanning eller konsekvens'' ("Truth or Dare") is a 1997 Swedish drama film directed by Christina Olofson. The film was the 1998 Winner of Crystal Bear for Best Feature Film at the Berlin International Film Festival. Plot Nora is in sixth grade ...

'' (1997).

Biography

Born in

Kristinehamn Kristinehamn is a locality and the seat of Kristinehamn Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden, with 24,053 inhabitants in 2022. Geography Kristinehamn is situated by the shores of lake Vänern where the small rivers ''Varnan'' and ''Löt'' ...

in the south of Sweden, Olofson studied at the universities of

Gothenburg Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ...

and

Stockholm Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ...

. In 1970, she took a course in

film editing Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film stock, film which increasingly involves the use Digital cinema, of digital ...

at SVT, the Swedish national television broadcaster, while attending courses on film and theatre at Stockholm's

Dramatiska Institutet The Swedish Institute of Dramatic Art (, DI), also called the University College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre was a Swedish university college in Stockholm that provided education programs about activities surrounding film, radio, te ...

. After working as an editor at SVT's TV2, she left in 1977 to concentrate on filmmaking. In 1978, together with du Rées, she produced the full-length documentary ''Tältprojektet – vem tillhör världen'', one of the most significant records of Sweden's progressive music and drama scene in the 1970s. Her short ''Bara ett barn'' (Just a Child, 1980) depicts a young, unemployed woman, evoking her frequently repeated theme of women's work and their desire for creative fulfilment. Her collaboration with the photographer Lisa Hagstrand began in 1985 with ''Möted med Flory'' describing the novelist

Elin Wägner Elin Matilda Elisabet Wägner (16 May 1882 – 7 January 1949) was a Swedish writer, journalist, feminist, teacher, ecologist and pacifist. She was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1944. Biography Elin Wägner was born in Lund, Sweden as th ...

's encounter with the 82-year-old nature lover, Flory Gate. The Finnish artist

Helene Schjerfbeck Helena Sofia (Helene) Schjerfbeck (; July 10, 1862 – January 23, 1946) was a Finnish modernist painter known for her realist works and self-portraits, and also for her landscapes and still lifes. Throughout her long life her work changed dram ...

was the subject of the short documentary ''Nästa söndag ska jag måla en svart prick bättre'' (1987). Olofson was a board member of the film department of the Swedish Theatre Association (''Teaterförbundet'') from 1980 to 1983 and a member of the Swedish Film Institute's feature film board from 1984 to 1987.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Olofson, Christina 1948 births Living people Swedish film producers Swedish film directors Swedish women film directors Dramatiska Institutet alumni Stockholm University University of Gothenburg alumni People from Kristinehamn