Mats Grorud
Filmography:
2005 : Asylumseekers (short)
Grand-papa is a raisin (short)
2008 : My Grand-Mother Beijing (short)
2009 : Santa Claus (short)
2018 : The Tower
Selection: 2019
Mats Grorud was born in 1976 in Norway. Graduated from animation at Volda University College, he complemented his animation career with studies in Denmark, Beirut and Beijing. Mats directed the short films Santa Klaus and My Grandmother Beijing, and animated on Backyard stories (Kaja Polmar, 2006) and Piotr Sapegin’s Grandpa is a raisin (2006). His first long animation feature, The Tower is based on interviews and conversations with the people living in the refugee camps and his own experience.