Lisa Aschan
Swedish director and screenwriter (born 1978)
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Lisa Aschan (born 1978) is a Swedish film director and screenwriter. Aschan went to film school in Stockholm and Denmark. During her studies, she became known for a commercial series called Fuck the Rapist! about a rape-protection. She worked as a director's assistant before releasing her first feature film, Apflickorna, in 2011, which garnered numerous film festival awards. In 2011, she was also awarded a 5 million Swedish kronor award by the Stockholm Film Festival' for her new project, Det vita folket (The White People), a science fiction-inspired story about government deportation camps.[1][2] However, Aschan declined the money for the film,[1] which later premiered in 2015.[3] At Sweden's 2016 Guldbaggen Awards, Aschan was filmed in the audience giving the finger to Swedish cinematographer Gösta Reiland[4] who had won the award for Best Cinematography[5] besting Linda Wassberg in the same category for Det vita folket.[6]
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- Director
- screenwriter
- She Monkeys
- Det vita folket
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| Born | 1978 (age 47–48) Vejbystrand, Sweden |
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Early life
Aschan was born in 1978 in Vejbystrand.[7] At the age of twelve, she moved to Gothenburg and then studied at a boarding school in England.[8] After that she studied at Stockholms Filmskola between 1989 and 1999, and at the National Film School of Denmark from 2001 to 2005 to become a director.[9][10] During her studies, she became known for the commercials Fuck the Rapist!, a number of commercial films about a rape-protection consisting of an awl-clad tampon.[11] Her short films In Transit and Goodbye Bluebird, which were made during the same time, have been shown at different film festivals.[12][13]
Career
In 2009, she was a director's assistant at the Royal Dramatic Theatre and directed the Danish TV series Thea & leoparden for DR's child TV section; the series has also been broadcast in Sweden and several other countries. The three-part series is about a girl who pretends to be a leopard.[14] Aschan has stated that she likes to use animal parables in her productions to make it more clear about human behavioural patterns.[14]
In 2011, she released her first feature film, Apflickorna, which premiered at the Gothenburg Film Festival and won the Dragon Award Best Nordic Film and FIPRESCI awards.[1][15]
Apflickorna has also won the award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, Best Cinematography at the Transilvania International Film Festival, as well as a Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival.[16] At the 2012 Guldbagge Awards, Aschan and Josefine Adolfsson won the award for Best Script for the film, and the film also won the Best Film and Best Sound categories.[17]
In 2011, Aschan was awarded the Stockholm Film Festival's newly created long-film scholarship of 5 million Swedish kronor (about €550,000, £480,000, or $770,000 in 2011) for her new project, Det vita folket, a science fiction-inspired story about the camps where the government places foreigners that are awaiting deportation.[1][2] Aschan declined the money as she did not feel that her project fell under the rules of the award.[1] Aschan has described Det vita folket as a space epos with inspiration from the horror film The Shining.[18][19] The film had its premiere in 2015.[3]
At the 2016 Guldbaggen Awards, Aschan was filmed in the audience giving the finger and saying "Fuck You" to Swedish cinematographer Gösta Reiland.[4] This was after Reiland had won the award for Best Cinematography, and was on his way up to the stage to receive the award.[5] Linda Wassberg, who had filmed Det vita folket, was also nominated in the same category, and Aschan called it a "spontaneous reaction" to Wassberg losing to Reiland.[6]
Filmography
- 2003 – Borta i tankar (based on a novel by Alejandro Leiva Wenger)
- 2004 – Fuck the Rapist!
- 2006 – In Transit
- 2007 – Goodbye Bluebird
- 2009 – Thea & leoparden
- 2011 – She Monkeys
- 2015 – Det vita folket[20]
- 2018 – Guds tystnad (short film)
- 2019 – Call Mom!
- 2023 – Thank You, I'm Sorry[21]
