Jannicke Systad Jacobsen

Jannicke Systad Jacobsen (b. 1975, Norway), writer and director, studied film directing with a focus on documentaries at FAMU, the Czech Republic’s national film school, and at the London International Film School. She has also studied Theatre Science and Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. Her documentaries, including The Clown Children (2005) and Scenes from a Friendship (2009), are notable for their sense of humor. Boasting a sympathetically hormonal heroine, her first fiction feature, the teen dramedy, Turn Me On, Goddammit (2011), scored Best Screenplay honors in the World Narrative Competition at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival and inspired applause from hard-nosed buyers during a Cannes market screening.

46. IFF Karlovy Vary