Sakaris Stórá
Sakaris Stórá (born 28 July 1986 in Skopun) is a Faroese film director and screenwriter. In December 2012 he won the first public Faroese film award Geytin.[1] The award is called Geytin, named after a man who was called Geytin, and travelled around the Faroe Islands before cinemas and TV were usual there and showing films for the people in the villages.
Biography
Sakaris Stórá was born and grew up in the small village Skopun on the island Sandoy. As a boy he dreamt of making films, but before he could realize his dreams, he was working on the local fish factory in Skopun for three years. After that he moved to Norway in 2005 to learn how to make films. At first, he went one year on the film and video line at the Agder Folkehøgskole, which is located outside of Kristiansand. After that he was accepted on the Nordland Kunst- og Filmfagskole in Lofoten in the North of Norway, where he studied for two years 2008-2009. His thesis on this school was the short film Passasjeren (the Passenger). At the same school he also made another short film with the title Ikaros.[2]
Sakaris Stórá was the daily leader of the Faroese film workshop Klippfisk from August 2009 until March 2010. The autumn and winter of 2012 he worked as a teacher on Føroya Fólkaháskúli.[3]
His short film Summarnátt (Sommer Night, which he directed and wrote) from 2012 has been shown in the Faroe Islands, in Odense, Hollywood and at the Nordic Film Festival in Lübeck.[4]
In September 2013 Stórá's short film Vetrarmorgun (Winter Morning), had its first showing on the local library in the village Sandur on the island Sandoy. A few days later the film was shown in the Nordic House in Tórshavn and at the Faroese National Theatre (Tjóðpallur Føroya). The film was produced by Ingun í Skrivarastovu.
In 2014 Stórá's short film Vetrarmorgun was invited to the Berlin International Film Festival, which was held from 6 to 16 February 2014.[5][6] According to Stórá he has tried to tell a story about being faithful to oneself and accepting one self. The film is a low budget short film where Stórá has used as few people as possible.[7] Vetrarmorgun was nominated in three categories at the Berlin International Film Festival, and on 14 April 2014 the film won The Special Prize of the Generation 14plus International Jury.[8]
In 2014 grants for filmmaking were on the Faroese Government Budget (fíggjarlógin) for the first time. 22 applied for a grant, nine of these received a grant, all together the grants were 485,000 Faroese króna (DKK). Sakaris Stórá received 40,000 for the work on a new screen play for a new feature film. Ingun í Skrivarastovu received 45,000 DKK for promotion of Stórá's two short films Summarnátt and Vetrarmorgun.[9]
Filmography
Short films
- 2008 - Ikaros, 2008, length: 7 min. (writer, director)
- 2009 - Passasjeren (The Passenger), language: Norwegian,[10] length: 9 min. (writer, director)
- 2012 - Summarnátt (Summer Night), language: Faroese, length: 17 min. (writer, director)[11]
- 2013 - Vetrarmorgun (Winter Morning), language: Faroese, length: 19 min. (writer, director)[4][12]
Awards, scolarships etc.
- 2014 - Received a film grant from the Faroese government of 45,000 DKK for the development of the screenplay for his first feature film.[9]
- 2014 - Won the prize The Special Prize of the Generation 14plus International Jury at the Berlin International Film Festival 2014 for the short film Vetrarmorgun. The prize was 2500 Euro.
- 2013 - Received a half-year Working grant from Mentanargrunnur Landsins.[13]
- 2012 - Won Geytin, a Faroese film prize DKK 25,000, he won for the short film Summarnátt (Summer Night)[14]
- 2011 - Received the Faroese Cultural Prize, he received the speciel price for a young artist DKK 50,000.[15]
- 2010 - Won a prize at a film festival in Reykjavik for his short film Passasjeren, he won in the category Best short film by a new director. 140 films from 29 countries were shown at the film festival.[16]
References
- ↑ Johannesen, Uni Holm; Johnsigurd Johannesen (12 December 2012). "Sakaris vann fyrsta Geytan" (in Faroese). Kringvarp Føroya. Retrieved 16 October 2015. Cite uses deprecated parameter
|coauthors=(help) - ↑ Kruse, Birgir (5 September 2009). "Sakaris Stórá, filmslistamaður úr Skopun" (in Faroese). Birkblog. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
- ↑ "Sakaris Stora". Linkedin.com. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
- 1 2 Kruse, Birgir (12 September 2013). "Stjørnurnar spæla á Sandi" (in Faroese). Birkblog. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
- ↑ Láadal, Leif (8 January 2014). "Filmurin Vetrarmorgun á heimsins størstu filmsstevnu" (in Faroese). Portal.fo. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
- ↑ "Vetrarmorgun". Berlinale.de. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
- ↑ Kruse, Birgir (8 January 2014). "Sakaris er sera glaður" (in Faroese). Birkblog. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
- ↑ "FEB 14, 2014: BERLINALE 2014: CRYSTAL BEARS AND THE AWARDS BY THE BUNDESZENTRALE FÜR POLITISCHE BILDUNG (FEDERAL AGENCY FOR CIVIC EDUCATION) IN GENERATION 14PLUS". Berlinale.de. 14 February 2014. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
- 1 2 Rana, Danjal av (2 July 2014). "Ferð setast á føroyskar filmar" (in Faroese). in.fo (Sosialurin). Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ Stórá, Sakaris. "LEIKRIT: ONNUR ÚTGÁVA "PASSASJEREN"" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Snar - A Faroese web-portal for education. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
- ↑ Sørensen, Inger Smærup (25 August 2012). "Longsul eftir summarnáttini" (in Faroese). Listin. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
- ↑ birkblog.blogspot.com, Stjørnurnar spæla á Sandi
- ↑ Kringvarp.fo 30 fáa starvsløn
- ↑ Listinblog.blogspot.dk
- ↑ "http://www.mmr.fo/kunning/tidindi/mentanarvirdislon-landsins-heidursgava-landsins-og-virdislon-til-ungt-listafolk-2011/" (in Faroese). The Faroese Ministry of Culture. 13 December 2011. Retrieved 16 October 2015. External link in
|title=(help) - ↑ Kruse, Birgir (3 October 2010). "Gylta Eggið til Skopunar" (in Faroese). Birkblog. Retrieved 16 October 2015.