Bent Hamer

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Bent Hamer
Born18 December 1956 (1956-12-18) (age 67)
Sandefjord, Norway
Occupation(s)film director, writer, producer

Bent Hamer (born 18 December 1956) is a film director, writer and producer, born in Sandefjord, Norway in 1956.

Biography

Hamer studied

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
.

In April 2004, Bent Hamer started shooting Factotum based on the novel of the same name by US poet and writer Charles Bukowski. The screenplay was written by Hamer and Jim Stark (Mystery Train, Cold Fever), who produced the film together with Christine Walker (American Splendor). The film premiered at the Kosmorama Film Festival in Trondheim, Norway, on 2005-04-12.

Hamer is the owner and founder of the BulBul Film Association, established in Oslo in 1994.

Filmography

Feature films

Short films

  • Rødvyn Aargang 81, 1981
  • Longitude Latitude (Makrellen er kommen), 1989
  • Happy Hour, 1990 (co-director: Jörgen Bergmark)
  • Sunday Dinner (Søndagsmiddag), 1990
  • Stone (Stein), 1992
  • Applause (Applaus), 1993
  • Just for the hell of it (Bare kødd), 1995

Documentaries

  • Courage to Dignity (Mot til verdighet), 1994
  • Norway the Conqueror (Norge erobreren), part of documentary series 2001–05

References

  1. ^ "19th Moscow International Film Festival (1995)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 22 March 2013. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  2. ^ "Norsk filmfond". www.filmfondet.no. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2022.

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