Christina Olofson

Born in Kristinehamn in the south of Sweden, Olofson studied at the universities of Gothenburg and Stockholm. In 1970, she took a course in film editing at SVT, the Swedish national television broadcaster, while attending courses on film and theatre at Stockholm's Dramatiska Institutet.^[1]

After working as an editor at SVT's TV2, she left in 1977 to concentrate on filmmaking. In 1978, together with du Rées, she produced the full-length documentary Tältprojektet – vem tillhör världen, one of the most significant records of Sweden's progressive music and drama scene in the 1970s. Her short Bara ett barn (Just a Child, 1980) depicts a young, unemployed woman, evoking her frequently repeated theme of women's work and their desire for creative fulfilment.^[3]

Her collaboration with the photographer Lisa Hagstrand began in 1985 with Möted med Flory describing the novelist Elin Wägner's encounter with the 82-year-old nature lover, Flory Gate.^[4] The Finnish artist Helene Schjerfbeck was the subject of the short documentary Nästa söndag ska jag måla en svart prick bättre (1987).^[3]

Olofson was a board member of the film department of the Swedish Theatre Association (Teaterförbundet) from 1980 to 1983 and a member of the Swedish Film Institute's feature film board from 1984 to 1987.^[1]