Lisa Aschan

Lisa Aschan

Lisa Aschan (2011)
Born (1978-02-28) 28 February 1978
Vejbystrand, Sweden
Occupation Film director, screenwriter
Known for Apflickorna, Det vita folket

Daria Sofia Elisabeth (Lisa) Aschan (born 28 February 1978) is a Swedish film director and screenwriter.

Biography

Early life

Aschan grew up on a farm in Vejbystrand with parents who originally came from Russia. At the age of twelve, she moved to Gothenburg and then studied at a boarding school in England.[1] After that she studied at Stockholms Filmskola between 1989 and 1999, and at Den Danskes Filmskole in Denmark from 2001 to 2005 to become a director.[2] 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.[3] Her short films In Transit and Goodbye Bluebird, which were made during the same time, have been shown at different film festivals.[4][5]

Career

In 2009, she was a director's assistant at Dramaten 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.[6] Aschan has stated that she likes to use animal parables in her productions to make it more clear about human behavioural patterns.[6]

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.[7][8] 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.[9] 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.[10]

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.[7][11] Aschan declined the money as she did not feel that her project fell under the rules of the award.[7] Aschan has described Det vita folket as a space epos with inspiration from the horror film The Shining.[12][13] The film had its premiere in 2015.[14]

At the 2016 Guldbaggen Awards, Aschan was filmed in the audience giving the finger and saying "Fuck You" to Swedish cinematographer Gösta Reiland.[15] This was after Reiland had won the award for Best Cinematography, and was on his way up to the stage to receive the award.[16] 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.[17]

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ "Lisa Aschan utforskar relationer". Göteborgs-Posten (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  2. ↑ "Lisa Aschan: "Provokation är helt ointressant"". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). 18 October 2015. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  3. ↑ "Lisa Aschan går under jorden". Helsingborgs Dagblad (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  4. ↑ Domellöf-Wik, Maria (30 November 2015). "Lisa Aschan utforskar relationer". Göteborgs-Posten (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  5. ↑ "She Monkeys" (in Swedish). Female First. 4 October 2011. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  6. 1 2 "Lisa Aschan återvänder alltid till djurens värld". Helsingborgs Dagblad (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 Domellöf-Wik, Maria (3 January 2012). "Lisa Aschan tackar nej till miljonstipendium". Göteborgs-Posten (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  8. ↑ "De är storfavoriter inför Guldbaggen". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  9. ↑ "Lisa Aschan skapar skräck på flyktingförvar". Nöjesguiden (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  10. ↑ "Guldbagge till Lisa Aschan och Josefine Adolfsson för bästa manus!" (in Swedish). Sveriges Dramatikerförbund. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  11. ↑ "Filmrecension: "Det vita folket" med Pernilla August". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  12. ↑ "Efter Guldbaggebelönade "Apflickorna" är Lisa Aschan tillbaka med en rysare på ett sterilt flyktingförvar". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  13. ↑ "Det vita folket". Kulturhuset Stadsteatern (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  14. ↑ "Det vita folket (2015)" (in Swedish). Svensk Filmdatabas. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  15. ↑ "Bröderna Wahlgrens ilska mot Lisa Aschan efter Guldbagge-galan - Nöje". Expressen (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  16. ↑ "Fula gesten från Lisa Aschan mitt under Guldbaggegalan - Nöje". Expressen (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  17. ↑ "Arg och pekade finger: "Spontan reaktion"". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). 19 January 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  18. ↑ "Det vita folket". Göteborgs-Posten (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 January 2016.
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