New film consultants at NFI
by Annika Pham
The Norwegian Film Institute (NFI) has just hired producer/director Thomas Robsahm and documentary filmmaker Maria Fuglevaag Warsinki as the new feature film and documentary film consultants, respectively.
Son of the late Italian actor Ugo Tognazzi and Norwegian actress-director Margrete Robsahm, the 44-year-old Robsahm directed his first feature, Rebels with a Cause, in 1992. Three years later, he set up his own production outfit, Speranza Film. In 1999, his film S.O.S. won an Amanda for Best Film.
As a producer, he has had a successful collaboration with documentary filmmaker Margreth Olin (Raw Youth), who will take over the reins at Speranza when Robsahm joins the NFI on March 1, 2009.
Fuglevaag Warsinski graduated in Directing from the Polish National Film Academy in Lodz in 1991, with an MA in Documentary Film Theory. She is renowned mostly for her documentaries from the Balkans, covering the consequences of the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo (Waiting for the Sun).
Both Robsahm and Fuglevaag Warsinski will report to the head of the NFI Development and Production department, Ivar Køhn.
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