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Today we're speaking with a cinematographer. Among his credits are Victoria, Rams, Wendy and

another round. We're pleased to welcome Sturla Brant, Ravelin with us today. Sturla, thank you

for doing this. This is great. Yes, thank you. Welcome. Thank you. It's a pleasure.

We'd like to start with asking you how you got to where you are today. What was your path?

Was this your original path or did you think you wanted to do something else and then find it?

And where did you grow up? Oh, tell us everything.

Well, I grew up in a small town in Norway, a northern part of Norway called Trondheim.

grew up in the suburbs there in a sort of a very kind of safe and healthy environment

with my parents and my brother and sister, all the brother and sister.

And I think I was a creative child. I guess all children are kind of creative, but I really like

drawing and my parents encouraged that. They're not from artistic backgrounds. My parents are

academics. And I think maybe it was that interest in drawing that kind of kind of made me want to

pursue some sort of artistic career or I started playing music quite, quite young playing in a band

and started playing around with the video camera that my father borrowed from his work,

just doing small films with my friends. Nothing that I thought at an point would be a career.

It was sort of just an extension of the kind of fantasy worlds that I was trying to express as a child,

I think. And then in I guess called it Junior High and I had a film course and kind of got more

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