Erika
Calmeyer

Erika Calmeyer, born and raised in Oslo, Norway. Studied at Victorian College of Arts in Melbourne Australia and after that Bachelor of Fine Arts, the Norwegian Film School, directing programme, from which she graduated in 2014.

She gained a lot of recognition for her graduation film Lea which travelled around festivals and also rendered the Nordic talent award for her debut feature film Storm, a dark drama about violence, grief and guilt.

Erika is also a writer and has apart from directing also written and created most projects she has been involved in.

Erika also enjoys working alongside other directors and has a number of second units experience production with Erik Richter Strand, whom she worked with on the acclaimed series Valkyrien and British TV-series Behind her eyes for Netflix.

She continued her successful work with Netflix directing episodes of the well received tv-series Young Royals and went on as conceptual director for the hit series dramacomedy Tore, also for Netflix.

FEATURE FILMS

  • 2023

    Storm, Paradox

TV SERIES

  • 2023

    Tore (Conceptual Director), Netflix

  • 2021

    Young royals (Director EP 3, 5-6), Netflix

  • 2019

    TWIN (Director 4 EP, Writer 2 EP), Nordisk Filmproduktion AS

  • 2019

    Nudes (Creator / Writer / Director), 3Cat

  • 2016

    Valkyrien (Directors Assistant and 2nd Unit Director), Tordenfilm

  • 2015

    Mysteriet på Sommarbåten (Mystery on the Summer Boat) (Director 5 EP), NRK

SHORT FILMS

  • 2018

    Weight of Spring (Writer and Director), Barbosa Film

  • 2016

    Hated On The Internet

  • 2014

    LEA, The Norwegian Film School

Awards

  • 2023

    Riviera International Film Festival (Winner), Best Director for Storm

  • 2019

    Aesthetica Short Film Festival (Nominee), Best Short Film for Weight of Spring

  • 2018

    Minimalen (Nominee), Best Nordic Film for Weight of Spring

  • 2018

    Nordisk Panorama (Nominee), Best Nordic Short Film for Weight of Spring

  • 2018

    Norwegian Short Film Festival (Nominee), Best Film for Weight of Spring

  • 2018

    Odense International Film Festival (Nominee), Best Short Film for Weight of Spring

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