TORSTEIN PARELIUS, Outreach Producer, UpNorth Film, Norway

Torstein Parelius is a documentary producer and outreach producer for the Norwegian production company UpNorth Film. He attended the Young Nordic Producers Club at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 and has pitched films at CPH:DOX, Kosmorama, MOW and more. Parelius was also a tutor at East Doc Platform in Prague in 2019. His latest projects as producer, co-producer, assistant producer and outreach producer include ‘iHuman’ by Tonje Hessen Schei, ´School Of Seduction’ by Alina Rudnitskaya, ‘Wars Don’t End’ by Dheeraj Akolkar, ‘Golden Dawn Girls’ by Håvard Bustnes, ´Patriotic Highway´ by Caroline Troedsson, ‘Boys Who Like Girls’ by Inka Achté, ‘Blackhearts’ by Fredrik Horn Akselsen and ‘Braving The Waves’ by Mina Keshavarz.

INSTITUTE PROFILE

UpNorth Film is among the most prominent documentary production companies in Norway, and has won several international awards with their films like The Golden Nymph, The Amnesty International Human Rights Award and The Most Valuable Documentary of the Year Award at the Cinema for Peace in Berlin. The production company has also won the prominent Norwegian equivalents to the Oscar and the Emmy awards. They have an extensive catalog of films behind them, having achieved wide international distribution with top tier festival premieres, theatrical releases, Netflix sales, and television broadcasts on all continents.