AWARDS
2020 Best Music Video, Just Before Midnight Fest, FLOWER INTO WOUNDS
2015 Premio Cineclub, Lecce Film Fest, EARTH OVER WIND
2012 Audience award, Clermont Ferrand Lab Comp, WIND OVER LAKE
2012 Underground Spirit Award, Palic European Film Festival
2012 Grand Prix, Fenetres sur Courts, WIND OVER LAKE
2012 Special Mention, Glasgow SFF, ASYLUM
2011 Audience Award, Vendôme Film Festival, ASYLUM
2011 Best Short Film, Bergen International Film Festival, ASYLUM
2011 Amanda nomination, short film category, ASYLUM
2011 Nomination Department of Culture's Human rights award, ASYLUM
2011 Special Mention, Norwegian Short Film Festival, ASYLUM
2010 Special Mention, Regensburg short film week, LITTLE RED HOODIE
2009 BAFTA Scotland nomination short film category LITTLE RED HOODIE
2009 Special Mention, Cork Int. Film Festival, LITTLE RED HOODIE
2009 Best script, Norwegian Short Film Festival, LITTLE RED HOODIE
2006 Best Film and Best Fiction Film, Minimalen, SIZE 5
2000 Special Recognition for Excellence, Aspen Shortsfest, MY JOB
1999 Best British Short film, Edinburgh Int. Film Festival, MY JOB
FILMOGRAPHY
Feature Film
2018 Lake Over Fire
Short Films
2020 Beat Around the Bush
2016 Statement Too (documentary)
2014 Earth Over Wind
2011 Becks Green Box project, LuckyMe (documentary)
2010 Asylum
2010 Wind Over Lake
2008 Little Red Hoodie
2007 No Coke
2006 My New Job (documentary)
2005 Size 5
2004 Paper Anniversary
2003 Terrorist
2000 Paperclipmaker
1999 My Job
Music Videos
2020 Flower Into Wounds (THE NINTH WAVE)
2016 People (ARVID SLETTA)
Originally from Norway, but based in Scotland, Joern is an award winning writer and director who graduated from both the Edinburgh College of Art and Screen Academy Scotland. He has written and directed a range of films that have been presented at numerous international film festivals and broadcast on several television channels including ARTE and Canal +.
Joern gained a BAFTA Scotland nomination for his controversial film Little Red Hoodie. His black comedy Asylum, funded by Film 4, was in 2011 nominated for an Amanda.
In 2018 Joern completed his first feature length film, Lake Over Fire, an experimental film showing in competition at the Munich international film festival. Joern is currently developing his next feature film and a TV comedy series with Channel X Hopscotch. Joern is currenlty in pre production of a new short film project Sexy Kjærlighet, funded by the Norwegian Film Institute and Midtnorsk Filmsenter.
