Torill Kove

Torill Kove

Nacimiento : 1958-05-25, Hamar, Norway

Historia

Torill Kove is an award-winning director, animator, illustrator and author. Born May 25, 1958, in Hamar, Norway, Kove lived in Kenya before moving to Montreal in 1982 to attend Concordia University. She went on to earn a master’s degree in Urban Planning at McGill University, then returned to Concordia to study animation, pursuing a lifelong passion for drawing and sketching. She won Kodak Awards for her student films All You Can Eat, Fallen Angel and Squash and Stretch. Kove also contributed to a number of animated productions for the National Film Board of Canada and illustrated seven picture books, three of which she authored as well. Her 1999 directorial debut for the NFB, My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts (co-produced with Studio Magica in Oslo), was nominated for an Academy Award®. Her next film for the NFB was The Danish Poet (a co-production with Norway’s Mikrofilm), featuring narration by Liv Ullmann. It won the Oscar®for Best Animated Short in 2006 as well as a Genie Award. Both films were included in the Animation Show of Shows. Kove made her feature film debut in 2013 with Hocus Pocus Alfie Atkins, based on the Alfie Atkins series by Gunilla Bergström. Her most recent NFB film, Me and My Moulton (2014, co- produced with Mikrofilm), recounts memories of growing up in a creative and unconventional family in 1960s Norway.

Perfil

Torill Kove

Películas

Threads
Threads
Screenplay
In this spellbinding hand-drawn odyssey by the celebrated Oscar-winning animator Torill Kove, a bustling urban habitat becomes an enchanting web of human connection. Threads explores how fundamental attachment is to the experience of being human.
Threads
Threads
Director
In this spellbinding hand-drawn odyssey by the celebrated Oscar-winning animator Torill Kove, a bustling urban habitat becomes an enchanting web of human connection. Threads explores how fundamental attachment is to the experience of being human.
Yo y mi bicicleta
Yo y mi bicicleta
Writer
Una niña de siete años, cuyos padres son unos modernistas poco convencionales, quiere que su familia sea como todas las familias Noruegas de los años 60. Esto causa preocupaciones cuando les pide a sus padres una bicicleta.
Yo y mi bicicleta
Yo y mi bicicleta
Director
Una niña de siete años, cuyos padres son unos modernistas poco convencionales, quiere que su familia sea como todas las familias Noruegas de los años 60. Esto causa preocupaciones cuando les pide a sus padres una bicicleta.
Hocus Pocus, Alfie Atkins!
Hocus Pocus, Alfie Atkins!
Director
Alfie Atkins, un chiquillo de 7 abriles de vida, sueña con poseer un perro. Un terrier juguetón, igual que un antiguo mago. Y al igual que la hechicería sólo depende de la mente, Alfie está convencido de que puede usarla para cumplir su sueño. Sin incautación, no es tan acomodaticio como él piensa. Incluso si al final su sueño se hace efectividad, sucede de la guisa más inesperada.
El poeta danés
El poeta danés
Animation
Narra la travesía que hace Kasper, un poeta cuya creatividad se ha acabado, hacia Noruega, con el fin de conocer a Sigrid Undset, una escritora famosa.
El poeta danés
El poeta danés
Screenplay
Narra la travesía que hace Kasper, un poeta cuya creatividad se ha acabado, hacia Noruega, con el fin de conocer a Sigrid Undset, una escritora famosa.
El poeta danés
El poeta danés
Director
Narra la travesía que hace Kasper, un poeta cuya creatividad se ha acabado, hacia Noruega, con el fin de conocer a Sigrid Undset, una escritora famosa.
My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts
My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts
Writer
A personal interpretation of Norwegian history - starring a grandmother who during the Second World War loses her job ironing the King's shirts. Instead she gains access to the enemy's uniforms, and inspires her own brand of resistance fighters, the "Shirt Guerillas".
My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts
My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts
Director
A personal interpretation of Norwegian history - starring a grandmother who during the Second World War loses her job ironing the King's shirts. Instead she gains access to the enemy's uniforms, and inspires her own brand of resistance fighters, the "Shirt Guerillas".
Foreign Country
Foreign Country
Director
Bored with their seemingly routine lives in Norway, Kove’s parents uproot the family and relocate to Nairobi, Kenya. This is a story of that uprooting, of adventure and misadventure, about colonialism, and about the long road travelled that inevitably leads to one’s true home. And self.
Yo y mi bicicleta
Yo y mi bicicleta
Director
Una niña de 7 años, cuyos padres son unos modernistas poco convencionales, quiere que su familia sea como todas las familias Noruegas de los años 60. Esto causa preocupaciones cuando les pide a sus padres una bicicleta.