Education:

  • Volda University College, BA in Animation, 2016-2019

  • The Animation Workshop, TDA (The Drawing Academy), 2015-2016

Filmography:

  • Pinea (2024)

  • Tanabata (2020)

  • Kusanagi (2020)

  • Yokai (2019)

Awards

  • Pinea: Winner of “Best foreign animated film”, International Film Festival ‘ZILANT’, Kazan, Russia.(2023)

  • Tanabata: 1st Prize “International film-category”, ISCA 2020 (International Creative Award). Osaka. Japan (2020)

  • Yokai: Winner of “Best Music Video”, Ca Foscari Short film festival, Venice, Italy (2019)

Film Festival Screenings:

Pinea (2023):

  • BALKANIMA - European Animated Film Festival, (Belgrade, Serbia)

  • International Film Festival ‘ZILANT’, (Kazan, Russia)

  • Animakom Fest 2023, (Bilbao, Spain)

  • KINOdiseea International Children Film Festival, (Bucharest, Romania)

  • Film Festival Bahari, (Java, Indonesia)

  • ONED art/Experimental Film Festival, (Toulouse, France)

Kusanagi (2020):

  • Animae Caribe International Animation Festival, (Port of Spain, Trinidad And Tobago)

  • Fredrikstad Animation Festival, (Norway)

  • Insomnia International Animation Film Festival, (Russia)

  • Constantine’s Gold Coin, (Serbia)

  • Animakom Fest, (Bilbao, Spain)

  • VAFI & RAFI - International Children and Youth Animation Film Festival, (Varaždin, Croatia)

  • Den norske filmfestivalen, (Haugesund, Norway)

Tanabata (2020):

  • Sardinia Film Festival (Sardinia, Italy)

  • Ulju Mountain Film Festival 2021 (Ulsan, South Korea)

  • ISCA 2020 - International Student Creative Award (Osaka, Japan)

  • Festival Internacional de cine de Ensenada (Buenes Aires, Argentina)

  • China International Green Film Week (Beijing, China)

  • FICCPaz (Veracruz, Mexico)

  • FICMA MX (Guanajuato, Mexico)

  • Festival Internacional de Cine Silente (Mexico)

  • Canlandıranlar Film Festival (Turkey)

  • FIIN - Festival Internacional de Imagem de Natureza (Vila Real, Portugal)

  • Make Art Not War Future Film Festival (Los Angeles. USA)

Yokai (2019):

  • Lobo Fest (Brasilia, Brazil) 

  • Ca Foscari Short film festival, Venice, Italy 

  • Chaniartoon 2020 (Chania, Greece) 

  • Vagrant Film Festival (International) 

  • The Chaffey Review (USA)

  • Il Cachinus De Cine (Spain) 

  • International Moving Film Festival (International)

  • VOID International Animation Film Festival (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Allocations:

  • Artist residency, Lalandhuset, Rogaland Fylkeskommune (July 2019)

  • Artist residency in Berlin, Stavanger Kommune (February - March 2020)