Speakers

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  Trond Jacobsen

  Producer · Director · Documentary · Children's TV · Norway

  Trond Jacobsen is a producer, director, and co-founder of Bivrost Film. Trond has directed feature films, TV series, and animation for children. Together with co-director Marianne Müller and NRK Super, Trond won an Emmy Award for the animated series My Body Belongs to Me. As a cinematographer and producer of documentaries, Trond has worked on investigative journalism films, children’s documentary series, and the personal films of Ilze Burkovska Jacobsen, which portray Latvian history and society through strong characters, most recently the animated documentary My Favorite War, winner of the Contrechamp Award at Annecy in 2020. In the coming years, Trond will co-direct and produce Bivrost’s upcoming productions, including the animated children’s feature Roach Coach, a co-production with Ego Media, and new episodes of the animated series Classmates.

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  Hans Jørgen Sandnes 

  Illustrator · Work in Progress · Norway

  Norwegian illustrator and author behind Detective Agency No. 2 and the Krypto graphic novels, with work published in over 22 countries.