Even Benestad (born 16 September 1974 in

Grimstad Grimstad () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder counties of Norway, county, Norway. It belongs to the geographical region of Southern Norway, Sørlandet. The administrative center of the municipality is the Grimstad (to ...

) is a Norwegian

documentary film A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...

director. Benestad studied

cinematography Cinematography () is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography. Cinematographers use a lens (optics), lens to focus reflected light from objects into a real image that is transferred to some image sen ...

at Oslo Film and Television Academy. His first feature-length documentary ''

All About My Father ''All About My Father'' () is a 2002 Norwegian biographical documentary film written and directed by Even Benestad. ''All About My Father'' is a personal documentary about the director's parent, the famous sexologist and trans person Esben Esth ...

'' (2002), which was winner of the "Best Film" award (fiction and non-fiction) at the

Amanda Awards The Amanda Award () is an award given annually at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund, Norway, to promote and improve Norwegian film. The award originated in 1985, and has since 2005 been exclusively a film award (not televis ...

in 2002. He is a huge fan of Italian

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s, and other Italian b-pictures.

Filmography

*''

'' (Alt om min far) (2002) *'' Natural Born Star'' (2007) *'' Tempus Fugit(short)'' (2008) *'' Pushwagner'' (2011) *'' 300 Seconds (series: episode, Ida's Diary)'' (2011) *''

Club 7 Club 7 was a cultural club in Oslo, Norway, active from 1963 to 1985. It was regarded a centre for counterculture in Norway in the 1960s through the 1970s. There was a wide tolerance for alternative lifestyles, including homosexuality. History Clu ...

'' (2014)

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* Norwegian documentary filmmakers 1974 births Living people People from Grimstad {{Norway-film-director-stub