Erik Poppe is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

, screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

 and former cinematographer

Cinematographer

A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image...

 and press photographer. Poppe started his career as a photographer for the newspaper Verdens Gang

Verdens Gang

Verdens Gang , generally known under the abbreviation VG, is a Norwegian tabloid newspaper...

. He graduated as a cinematographer at the Dramatiska Institutet

Dramatiska Institutet

Dramatiska Institutet or University College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre is a Swedish university college in Stockholm that provides education programs about activities surrounding film, radio, television, and theater. It was founded in 1970 by the Swedish government...

 in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 in 1989, and had great success as a cinematographer for commercials. He was director of photography on Bent Hamer

Bent Hamer

Bent Hamer is a film director, writer and producer, born in Sandefjord, Norway in 1956.-Biography:Hamer studied film theory and literature at the University of Stockholm and the Stockholm Film School. In addition to his feature films, he has written and directed a number of short films and...

's film Eggs

Eggs (film)

Eggs is a 1995 Norwegian comedy film by Bent Hamer. It was awarded the 1995 Amanda for best Norwegian film.-Plot:Two old brothers, Moe and Pa, have lived together for their whole life and are content with their daily and weekly routine...

.

His first feature film as director was Schpaaa in 1998, followed by Hawaii, Oslo

Hawaii, Oslo

Hawaii, Oslo is a Norwegian film from 2004. It was directed by Erik Poppe after a script by Harald Rosenløw Eeg. The music was composed by John Erik Kaada and Bugge Wesseltoft. The film was well received by critics, and was awarded two Amanda Awards in 2005....

 in 2004. His last film, deUSYNLIGE (Troubled Water), is the third and last film in his "Oslo" trilogy. Poppe is co-owner of Paradox Films.

Poppe is one of Norway’s most experienced directors of commercials and music video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

s, as well as short films and documentaries. He directed the first four episodes of the TV-drama Brigaden

Brigaden

-Plot:This series follows a group of firefighters in Norway. The show has been described as an intense and realistic story about a group of people who save lives. The episodes follow their professional lives as firefighters and their personal lives as their tough job takes a toll on their...

.

Troubled Water won the audience prize for best narrative feature film at the Hamptons International Film Festival

Hamptons International Film Festival

Hamptons International Film Festival was founded to provide a forum for independent filmmakers from around the world to express their vision. The Festival is traditionally held for five days in mid-October in theatre venues from Montauk to Southampton and attracts roughly 15,000 visitors annually...

 in October 2008.

Filmography

• Schpaaa (1998)
• Brigaden
  Brigaden
  -Plot:This series follows a group of firefighters in Norway. The show has been described as an intense and realistic story about a group of people who save lives. The episodes follow their professional lives as firefighters and their personal lives as their tough job takes a toll on their...
  
   (TV Series)
• Hawaii, Oslo
  Hawaii, Oslo
  Hawaii, Oslo is a Norwegian film from 2004. It was directed by Erik Poppe after a script by Harald Rosenløw Eeg. The music was composed by John Erik Kaada and Bugge Wesseltoft. The film was well received by critics, and was awarded two Amanda Awards in 2005....
  
   (2004)
• deUSYNLIGE (2008)

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