Emilie Thalund

Emilie Thalund portrays women. She is known to be a sensitive observer, a dreamer and a visually strong narrator. She invested in her love for her characters and intimate storytelling, she naturally gravitated back towards her childhood dream of becoming a director. Using a documentary style, she focuses on tales of real women and filling the gaps in the way women have been portrayed in media in the past years.

As a token of her creativity, Emilie received a Young Director Award during the Cannes Lions festival in 2018 for her film Period. In the following years she was rewarded for her film Isolation with another Young Directors Award and in 2021 shea received Silver at the One Point Four awards.