Öystein Thorsen

Öystein Thorsen was born in Norway, and like many other filmmakers he bossed his friends around in order to realise his projects. However, as the friends got increasingly harder to boss, the interest took a dive, until he moved to Sweden and enrolled at the University of Örebro. There he joined like-minded and made various segments for the Campus TV. Even with fellow aspiring filmmakers available for exploitation Öystein seemed to have a hard time "bothering" others with his projects - he also seemed to enjoy the freedom of working alone. First a few simpler short films saw the light of day, before somewhat more ambitious documentaries came to fruition. The first one was sold to Swedish TV4, and the other got a DVD/VOD deal in Sweden, and also a distribution deal with an LA based agent - whatever that means. A few short films followed, but since he solely works with his own projects, income had to be made from jobs and assignments outside of the film industry, which in turn offered less time to filmmaking. Even so, a few more short films have been produced and now finally the longest film to date; "Behind the Scenes", which clocks in at 67 minutes. An interesting project, in corona isolation, with Öystein carrying out basically all the tasks, including the end credits song, developing the story while filming. Film is not supposed to be made like that, but in that case it fits the nature of the story.