#project wanja

Great and exciting news for the 'Wanja' project!

I'm so happy to announce that we just received a grant from Fritt Ord to continue the work on my documentary film about Wanja. I am so grateful and happy to get this support. Feels good that someone else believes in my project enough to support it. So far the project has been fully financed by myself, this grant really gives me the opportunity to develope the project further and spend more time on it.

The reason I write 'we (just received)' is because I have more good news. I am now working with the Norwegian productions company Motlys. We have signed an option agreement and will be collaborating on the development of this project for the next year (and hopefully longer if everything goes well). My producer is called Natalya Sarch, a young, passionate and talented woman! Welcome to the team Natalya!

A continuation of my project about Wanja. In June she went to Ekstremsportsveko in Voss, Norway - an annual ekstremesports festival. It has been her dream to go there for a long time and finally she did. One of the goals for the trip was to go paragliding. This is a small edit of her flight. Unfortunately, for now, it’s only in Norwegian. An English version will come shortly

Wanja is suffering from the deadly disease ALS. She wants to live her last years to the fullest and create as many good memories as possible.

This project is an ongoing multimedia project that will result in a documentary film as well as an photographic story. The project was started in 2012 and will continue to the very end.

Follow the project at: https://www.facebook.com/projectwanja

I just launched a facebook page dedicated to the story about Wanja, a documentary film- and photoproject that I'm working on. Wanja is a young woman suffering from the deadly disease ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.

The disease gradually robs a little bit of Wanjas' muscles, a bit more of her ability to speak, a bit of her energy and her time on earth. However, it does not steal her strong will to live, her joy from the painfree hours and her dreams about things still to be achieved. She still wants a shot at life.

I have been following Wanja for over a year and will continue to follow her to the very end. I will of course keep my tumbler up to date on this project, but if you are interested in following it closer feel free to like the page.