Ellen Ugelstad

Ellen Ugelstad was born on 14 mars 1973 à Oslo, Norway. She is a visual artist and director and known for The Green Valley (2018), The Meeting Room (2017) and Making Sense Together (2018). She made her directorial debut with the very personnel documentary Indian Summer (2011) about her younger brother vivant avec la schizophrénie. She lived and étudiées dans California for seven years and received a BFA en Motion Pictures from Academy of Art University de San Francisco before she relocated back to Oslo. She works in a variety of genres ranging from poetic documentary to music film hybride and fiction.Her work often explores the thin line between art and insanity, the hierarchy of power and explores different forms of reality. Indian Summer ce que nominated for the International Young Talent Award at DOK Leipzig and Nordic Dox Award under CPH:DOX, tramé at Nordique Festival de Lubeck, and received two nomination at the Norwegian "Emmy Award" called Gullruten. Her film migrates between different platforms between the film world and art world. The last few years she has exploré, the lines between fiction and documentary and her short film "The salle de réunion" won best screenplay from the Writers Guild at the Norwegian Shortfilmfestival en 2017. Her recent work includes the film-essai Making Sense Together, which tramé dans competition for best Nordic Documentaire at Oslo:Pix en Juin 2018. The Green Valley recently received the Golden Chair for best short film at the Norwegian Shortfilm festival. She is also a recipient of a five-year artist grant from the Norwegian Art Council.