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Torill Kove
b. May 25, 1958 in Hamar, Norway
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Torill Kove photograph on the left © Lois Siegel. Used with permission.
Torill Kove was born and raised in Norway but moved to Canada. She spent several years finishing her formal education and then she worked in urban planning. A childhood hobby of drawing and sketching was the start for her interest in animation which led to her going back to school to study animation at Montréal's Concordia University. She won the Kodak Award for her quirky films All You Can Eat, Fallen Angel and Squash and Stretch. Her professional career began at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) where she worked on a series of 18 short films by director Alison Burns all titled Multiple Choices, but each having a different focus on a different topic. The first professional film Kove wrote, directed and animated was the 11-minute My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts, which was an NFB co-production with Studio Magica of Oslo. It won numerous international awards and was nominated for an Academy Award®. Sometime in there she also found time to illustrate three children's books. The Danish Poet, Torill's latest film, is an animated short about life's peculiar coincidences. Narrated by Liv Ullmann, it was given an Oscar® for Best Animated Short in 2007.
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Features & TV Movies:
My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts (1999)
The Danish Poet (2006)
Credits as a Screenwriter:
My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts (1999)
The Danish Poet (2006)
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