Christina Olofson

Anna-Maria Christina Olofson (born June 13, 1948 in Kristinehamn, Värmlands län, Sweden) is a Swedish film director, producer and scriptwriter.^[1] In 1974, after founding the Hagafilm production company with Göran du Rées, she went on to produce a number of films with him.^[2][3] She has since made a number of documentaries on women's contributions to society, including A Woman Is a Risky Bet: Six Orchestra Conductors (1987) and I rollerna tre (1996), as well as the feature films Honungsvargar (1990) and Sanning eller konsekvens (1997).^[4]

Biography

Born in Kristinehamn in the south of Sweden, Olofson studied at the universities of Gothenburg and Stockholm. In 1970, she took a course in film editing at SVT, the Swedish national television broadcaster, while attending courses on film and theatre at Stockholm's Dramatiska Institutet.^[2]

After working as an editor at SVT's TV2, she left in 1977 to concentrate on filmmaking. In 1978, together with du Rées, she produced the full-length documentary Tältprojektet – vem tillhör världen, one of the most significant records of Sweden's progressive music and drama scene in the 1970s. Her short Bara ett barn (Just a Child, 1980) depicts a young, unemployed woman, evoking her frequently repeated theme of women's work and their desire for creative fulfilment.^[4]

Her collaboration with the photographer Lisa Hagstrand began in 1985 with Mötet med Flory describing the novelist Elin Wägner's encounter with the 82-year-old nature lover, Flory Gate.^[5] The Finnish artist Helene Schjerfbeck was the subject of the short documentary Nästa söndag ska jag måla en svart prick bättre (1987).^[4]

Olofson was a board member of the film department of the Swedish Theatre Association (Teaterförbundet) from 1980 ti 1983 and a member of the Swedish Film Institute's feature film board from 1984 to 1987.^[2]

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