Sara Johnsen (born 4 March 1970) is a Norwegian film director and author.
Career
Johnsen's first feature film ''Kissed by Winter'' was nominated for the 2005 Nordic Council Film Prize.
Johnsen was an additional writer on the first series of the television series ''
Occupied'' (2015). In 2020, she created and wrote the series ''22 juli'' about the
Utoya mass shooting
The 2011 Norway attacks, referred to in Norway as 22 July ( no, 22. juli) or as 22/7, were two domestic terrorist attacks by neo-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik against the government, the civilian population, and a Workers' Youth League (AUF) ...
with her husband
Pål Sletaune.
At the
Göteborg Film Festival
Göteborg Film Festival (GFF), formerly Göteborg International Film Festival (GIFF), known in English as the Gothenburg Film Festival, formerly Gothenburg International Film Festival, is an annual film festival in Gothenburg, Sweden and the lar ...
she was awarded the 2020 Nordic TV Drama Screenplay Award for her work on ''22 juli''.
She was awarded the
Fritt Ord Honorary Award in 2020, along with Pål Sletaune.
Johnsen has written the novels ''White Man'' and ''He Knows Something She Can Try''.
Selected filmography
Awards
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The Kanon Award (2006)
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Amanda Award (2010)
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Fritt Ord Honorary Award (2020)
References
External links
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1970 births
Living people
Norwegian film directors
Norwegian women film directors
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