Otto Rosing (born 9 March 1967) is a Greenlandic/Danish film director. He grew up in

Ilulissat Ilulissat, also known as Jacobshavn or Jakobshav, is the municipal seat and largest town of the Avannaata municipality in western Greenland, located approximately north of the Arctic Circle. With a population of 4,670 as of 2020, it is the ...

Greenland Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenlan ...

, and later resided in Greenland's capital

Nuuk Nuuk (; , formerly ) is the capital and most populous city of Greenland, an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark. Nuuk is the seat of government and the territory's largest cultural and economic center. It is also the seat of gove ...

. He now lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. In collaboration with film producer Mikisoq H. Lynge, Otto Rosing and Torben Bech directed Greenland's first international feature film ''

Nuummioq ''Nuummioq'' is a 2009 Greenlandic drama film directed by Otto Rosing and Torben Bech and produced by Mikisoq H. Lynge. ''Nuummioq'' means "a man from Nuuk" in the Greenlandic language. ''Nuummioq'' premiered in Nuuk on 31 October 2009. Plot M ...

''. It was the first Greenlandic film to be submitted for the

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a ...

, but it didn't make the final shortlist. Otto Rosing's youngest brother

Lars Rosing Lars Rosing (born 25 January 1972) is a Danish-Greenlandic actor. Brother of film director Otto Rosing. Born in Maniitsoq, a town in western Greenland, he grew up in Ilulissat, a larger town further north. Rosing later resided in Nuuk, the capita ...

plays the protagonist Malik in ''Nuummioq''. Otto Rosing has also directed the documentary ''The Eternal flight'' a portrait of the artist

Jens Rosing Jens Christian Rosing (28 July 1925 – 24 May 2008) was a notable Greenlandic artist, author and storyteller. He designed the Coat of arms of Greenland, coat of arms of Greenland, many Greenlandic postage stamps, as well as illustrated childr ...

References

Nuummioq review in Variety, retrieved 30 April 2010

External links

*Nuummioq official Home Page

*Otto Rosing Official Website

* 1967 births Danish film directors Living people People from Nuuk People from Ilulissat Greenlandic people of Danish descent {{Greenland-bio-stub