People

Hanna Andersson

Sweden

Biography

Hanna Andersson completed a degree in comparative literature, film and drama, and was working as a freelance filmmaker and literary critic, before she was accepted into the Directing Programme of Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm, where she studied between 2001 and 2004. She made several award-winning shorts during film school and graduated with the novella film "The Imposter" . After graduation Hanna Andersson joined Swedish Television as an assistant director and second unit director. She directed "The Postman’s Secret" for Swedish Television. During 2007 she developed her feature project "Trust" through the Nipkow programme in Berlin and the following year she attended Script & Pitch with the same project. Since then she has made several documentaries and her short Erika & Sally received the After Bergman award on Fårö. She made her debut as a theatre director in 2012 and she teaches film acting in various acting programmes in Scandinavia. She lives in Stockholm.

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