This is the jury for the Edith Carlmar Award 2025
The Edith Carlmar Award has been presented since 2010 to professional female filmmakers in Norway who have demonstrated integrity, a fearless ability to innovate, and a willingness to push boundaries. Since 2018, the award has been presented during the Kosmorama Film Festival. We are now delighted to announce these three jury members for the Edith Carlmar Award in 2025. The award is presented in collaboration with SpareBank 1 SMN.
Ingvil Giske
Ingvil Giske graduated from Volda University College. She produced Benjamin Ree's documentary Ibelin, which won two awards at the Sundance Film Festival and was later acquired by Netflix. She also produced Øystein Mamen's debut film, Straff, which won the Faith in Film Award at the Tromsø Film Festival before participating in the Slamdance Festival.
Ingvil has a special interest in children’s and youth documentaries and has produced Todd & Super-Stella (Mari Monrad Visten), Bortebane (Line Hatland), Skolen ved havet, and Tungeskjærerne by Solveig Melkeraaen.
Other titles include: Formørkelsen, The Painter and the Thief, Dugma - The Button, Flink Pike, Meet the Censors, and Barneraneren.
Anne Gjelsvik
Anne Gjelsvik is a professor of film studies at the Department of Art and Media Studies at NTNU. Her research focuses on the relationship between contemporary film and society, with a particular emphasis on Norwegian and American fiction films. She has authored numerous books and articles on topics such as film criticism, terrorism, memory culture, violence in film, adaptation, and ecocriticism.
Gjelsvik is an active contributor to public discourse, including as a regular writer for Montages, and has received awards for her dissemination work from the Norwegian Media Research Association and the Norwegian Film Critics' Association.
Her latest book, Refocus: The Films of Joachim Trier, is the first dedicated to Joachim Trier's work and was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2024.
Irene Torp Halvorsen
Irene Torp Halvorsen is a film scholar educated at the University of Bologna. She has worked in various areas of film dissemination, including film distribution, teaching film history, Den kulturelle skolesekken (DKS), film clubs, and film festivals. In 2008, she launched the Cinematheque in Kristiansand, which she managed for four years.
For the past decade, she has been a curator at the Cinematheque in Oslo, focusing on initiatives such as the Oslo Silent Film Festival and collaborations with regional cinematheques.
