Svenska Filminstitutet har utsett Suzanne Glansborg till ny långfilmskonsulent. Hon efterträder Peter ”Piodor” Gustafsson och tillträder sin tjänst den 1 januari 2010.
Photo: Marie-Therese Karlberg
The Swedish Film Institute has appointed Suzanne Glansborg as one of its feature film commissioners. She will take over the role from Peter "Piodor" Gustafsson on 1 January 2010.
"After 30 years in the film business it feels like a natural step. As a purchaser of feature films at the screenplay stage for television over the last few years, I've gained the experience, expertise and strength that I hope will help me to cope with the challenges and responsibilities of my new role," says Suzanne Glansborg.
Born in 1950, Suzanne has recently been responsible for purchasing Nordic features for the Canal Plus and TV4 television channels. She began her career in film back in 1976 at the Swedish Film Institute's cinema department. During the 1980s she worked at Polar Bonnier Video and Esselte Video as a product manager and purchaser. Then in 1991 she joined Filmnet as head of scheduling, and when Canal Plus took over, she changed to her most recent role in film purchasing. Among the films she has helped to finance are You, the Living, The Princess, Let the Right one In, Patrik Age 1.5, Shooting Stars, Metropia, The Girl, and the hugely popular film versions of the Beck and Wallander crime stories. She has a bachelor's degree in Humanities from Stockholm University, and has also studied Psychology.
Suzanne was a member of the Swedish Film Institute's Children and Young People's Film Committee from 1983-89, and she has also been a member of the Guldbagge Award nominations jury for Best Foreign Language Film.
"We're delighted that Suzanne Glansborg has agreed to become our new feature film commissioner. She has a different background from previous commissioners, who for the most part have come from the production side of the business. But in her job as a film purchaser, Suzanne has gained vast experience of assessing films in their earliest stages. It's a very similar job to that of film commissioner. Over the years she has also got to know most of the Swedish and Nordic filmmakers, giving her valuable insight into the process that leads to a finished film.
In Suzanne and Lars G Lindström we now have two very different commissioners who complement each other in a dynamic way," says Cissi Elwin Frenkel, CEO of the Film Institute.