User:Almaawesome/sandbox

Gatufesten
Gatufesten was a music festival held in the city Sundsvall in Sweden during summers. The one in 2013 came to be the last one.

Jannicke Systad Jacobsen was born in 1975 and grew up in Høvik, a suburb in Norway. Systad Jacobsen is a screenwriter and director, and has studied film directing at The National Film School of the Czech Republic, as well as Social Anthropology and Theatre Sience at Oslo University. Systad Jacobsen has also studied at London international Film School.

Career
Systad Jacobsen has directed many documentaries While making documentaries Systad Jacobsen used to plan a lot and write scripts for them, influenced by her fiction studies. Systad Jacobsen wanted to start making a feature where it is possible to control more of the process, but still keep the sensitivity she got from working with real people while making documentaries.

Turn me on, dammit! was Systad Jacobsens first fiction Feature. It had its premiere (world premiere) in 2011 at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival where it won the award for Best screenplay in the world. Systad Jacobsen wrote the screenplay, based on a book by Olaug Nilssen. Systad Jacobsen chose to cast teenagers who had grown up in a small city for the movie, instead of casting city kids. These teenagers were not actors. Marianne Bakke, the cinematographer of the movie, was previosly a still photographer.

Turn me on, dammit! introduces us to Alma, a teenage girl growing up in a small town in Norway, living with her mom, by a shot of her lying on the kitchen floor. Next to her on the kitchen floor lies a telephone from which the voice of a phone-sex operator comes. Alma talks with the voice while masturbating. Alma has a rich imagination, and the person taking up the biggest part of that imagination is Artur, her classmate and neighbour. At a party Artur finally approaches her with what seems to be sexual intentions and Alma tells her friends about it but they don’t believe her. Her social surroundings, including her closest friends, refuses to talk to her and leaves her out in the cold. The rumour spreads fast, and soon everyone has a mean nick-name for her. While on the bus, passing the sign with the name of her hometown, Alma and her friend used to raise their middle-finger to it, to show their dislike for it. Alma is now left alone with her dislike of her hometown. This movie portrays something that usually has a lot of tabu around it, young female sexuality. This is done through humor and with playfulness.

The Clown Children (Klovnebarna) The Clown Children (Klovnebarna) is a documentary about two young boys who make money by dressing up as clowns and showing tricks for people in the cars at a crossing in Guatemala City. Systad Jacobsen wrote the manuscript for it, as well as directed it.

Sandman - the story of a socialist Superman Sandman - the story of a socialist Superman is a documentary directed by Systad Jacobsen about "Sandmann", a character from a television show for children in Germany. It reflects upon the ideology and history of socialism. The documentary participated in "Norwegian Documentary Film Festival Volda (2005), Norwegian Short Film Festival Grimstad (2005), Uppsala Int'l Short Film Festival (2005), M-DOX Malmö, Sweden (2005), Grenzland Filmtage (2006) and Kristiansand International Children's Film Festival (2006).

The war on Paranoia (kampen mot paranoia) The war on Paranoia is a short film directed by Systad Jacobsen, released in August 2003. It reflects upon the actions of the American Embassy in Oslo that took place after the September 11 attacks. It participated in many film festivals, such as Political Incorrect Film Festival Ljubliana, World Wide Short Film Festival Toronto in 2004 and Festival on Wheels Turkey.

Frimerket og fyret Frimerket og fyret is a documentary portraying the infrastructure in Norway, released in 2002. Systad Jacobsen wrote the manuscript, directed it and produced it. It was screened in several festivals internationally, such as Festival Cinema Delle Donne (Italy, 2003), International Documentary Film Festival Munchen (Germany, 2003), Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (Czech Republic, 2003), and Message to Man (Russia, 2003).

Filmography

 * Turn Me On, Dammit! (2011)
 * Scenes from a friendship (2009, documentary)
 * Pizzaeventyret (2007, TV series documentary)
 * The Clown Children (2005, documentary short)
 * Sandmann – Historien om en sosialistisk supermann (2005, TV documentary)
 * Kampen mot paranoia (2003, short)
 * Frimerket og fyret (2002, documentary short)
 * En liten rød prikk (2001, short)

Awards and Nominations
Turn me on, dammit! won the award for Best Screenplay in the world at New York's Tribeca Film Festival. The movie had six nominations for Amandaprisen in the following categories: Best Norwegian Film, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Music.

Sandman - the story of a socialist Superman was nominated for Gullrutten in 2006, in the category for Best Tv Documentary.

The Clown Children (Klovnebarna) won the Kodak Shot-on-film award at Durango Film, an independent film festival, in 2008.