Ekko av Ibsen is a series of eight

short film A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...

s that were shown on

NRK NRK, an abbreviation of the Norwegian ''Norsk Rikskringkasting AS'', generally expressed in English as the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and the largest ...

in autumn 2006. Norwegian Film Fund and NRK arranged in 2004 a script-writing conference that were based on texts by

Henrik Ibsen Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential pla ...

. In 2004, 16 of 250 submitted projects were given kr 20,000 to further develop their projects. In 2005, eight 28-minute films were chosen; six were awarded kr 1,500,000 from the Norwegian Film Fund and the others were financed and produced by

Films

References

NRK original programming Films directed by Marius Holst {{Norway-film-stub