Torill Kove

Torill Kove ( born May 25, 1958 in Hamar, Norway ) is a Norwegian- Canadian animator.

Kove spent as the daughter of their youth development workers in Africa. When she went to high school in Kenya, she made ​​friends with some Canadians. In her early 20s, she moved to Montreal to visit friends. From 1981, she lived there and studied urban planning. After they had finished studying, she worked as a planner, but was incidentally also worked as an illustrator. She began to enroll in film courses at Concordia University in Montreal, and got a job at the National Film Board of Canada.

A script that they had written for a course, she realized then as an animated film. This eleven-minute project was titled My Grandmother Ironed the King 's Shirts. The film was released in 1999, was nominated for an Oscar as " Best Animated Short Film " and shown at several film festivals. In the film Kove describes her own grandmother, who was hired as a staff of King Håkon VII during the Second World War.

The next trick film in which she directed, was the 15-minute The Danish Poet - A Love Story (2006) on a poet who travels to Norway to find new inspiration. The film won a Genie Award for Best Animated Short Film and motioned her second Oscar nomination. After they had previously been touted as favorite for the price, they finally won it too.