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Waves

In the middle of the COVID-19 lockdown, asylum seeker Leyla meets Stig, a delivery guy, an encounter that could change both their lives.

  • Camilla Roman
    Director
  • Camilla Roman
    Writer
  • Liew Ceng Teng
    Producer
  • Camilla Roman
    Producer
  • Tonje Thwin
    Key Cast
    "Leyla"
  • Eric Vorenholt
    Key Cast
    "Stig"
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Bølgeblikk
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    16 minutes 21 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 5, 2020
  • Country of Origin:
    Norway
  • Country of Filming:
    Norway
  • Language:
    Norwegian
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Accolade Global Film Competition 2021
    Los Angeles
    United States
    Award of Excellence Special Mention: Women Filmmakers
  • Accolade Global Film Competition 2021
    Los Angeles
    United States
    Award of Excellence: Actress: Leading (Tonje Thwin as Leyla)
  • Vesuvius International Film Fest

    Italy
    Winner Best Female Director
  • Vegas Movie Awards
    Las Vegas
    United States
    Official Selection
  • Global Nonviolent Film Festival

    Canada
    September 23, 2021
    Premiere
    Best Director - short film
  • Global Nonviolent Film Festival

    Canada
    September 23, 2021
    Premiere
    Best Lead Actress in a Short Film
  • Sherman Oaks Film Festival
    Los Angeles
    United States
    November 22, 2021
    Los Angeles/West Coast Premiere
    Official Selection
  • MyART, Mediterranean Film Festival on Migration and Human Rights
    Cosenza
    Italy
    December 9, 2021
    Europe Premiere
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Camilla Roman

Camilla Roman is a Norwegian writer, director, producer and actor.
She's an Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (London, UK) and New York Film Academy (Universal Studios, LA) alumni.
She has directed and produced three short films, and written the script for two of them.

Her first short film "Love You to Death" ("Elsker deg til døde") premiered, and won Best Foreign Language Short, at The Golden State Film Festival, in March 2019. The film is available on Prime Video and Google Play.

Head, shoulders, knees and toes has won two online Best LGBT awards, and was Official Selection at Golden State Film Festival, 2021. The film is now available on Vimeo and YouTube.

Waves (Bølgeblikk) was part of Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market 2021, and received Award of Excellence Special Mention: Women Filmmakers and
Award of Excellence: Actress: Leading (Tonje Thwin as Leyla) from the Accolade Global Film Competition.

As a screenwriter her feature film project, and historic drama, "Elsa" was selected to pitch at The Norwegian Film Festival in 2015, and was also selected to be part of the European Screen Writing program Sources2, in 2016. The script for "Elsa" is completed, and Camilla is looking for producers and investors.
She's also looking for producers and investors for her completed feature film "Agnes & Mia", about two women investigators in the US.
Both scripts are in English.

She's currently developing Norwegian TV dramedy Restart.

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Director Statement

I've often wondered how police officers who are ordered to help deport asylumn seekers, feel about that. Waves is my comment to the European/Norwegian asylum politics. It saddens me that people who have lived in a western country for many, many years, and built a life there, suddenly can be kicked out. There are countless examples of people who were sent back to the country they escaped from, who have been jailed, tortured and even killed.