Vibeke Idsøe studied film at New York University's Film School, and is both an author and a writer-director. She made her debut as a film director in 1996, with the children's adventure film Body Troopers, which she also wrote the screenplay for, based on her own novel from 1994 by the same title. The film was a great success in Norway, and won a number of awards at various prestigious festivals around the world, including the Adult's Jury Award at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival.
Idsøe also co-wrote the screenplay for one of Norways biggest animation-film hits: Gurin with the Foxtail in 1998, and also the script for her own animated film Karlsson on the Roof (2002). In 2005 she made her first film directed at a more adult audience, the comedy 37 and a Half.
Norsk Filminstitutt
