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Deeyah Khan (Urdu: دیا خان, pronounced [diːja xaːn], born 7 August 1977) is a Norwegian documentary film director and human rights activist [1] of Punjabi/Pashtun descent. Deeyah is a two-time Emmy Award winner, two time Peabody Award winner, a BAFTA winner and has received the Royal Television Society award for Best Factual Director.
Izzat was the first ever Norwegian film to be subtitled into Urdu in hopes to reach a double audience, with a visioned release in Pakistan in addition to the release in Norway. [13] The film did not gather any significant reception in Pakistan and Izzat remained mostly a success within Norway.
Haq, a Norwegian-Pakistani, [2] studied art direction at Westerdals School of Communication in Oslo. [3] She came from a conservative Muslim family who immigrated to Norway. [ 4 ] Her upbringing and life events were later a huge inspiration for her movie What Will People Say .
Khalid Salimi (Urdu: خالد سلیم; born 23 May 1954) is a human rights activist, culture and arts critic, former music columnist for weekly Morgenbladet and an advisor on cross-cultural and art-related issues for the Nordic Culture Fund. He is artistic director of international performing arts festival Mela Festival, organized annually in ...
Zahid Ali, another Pakistani Norwegian, joined the ranks of minorities on Norwegian television by participating in the comedy program Rikets Røst on TV2. Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen is a Pakistani Norwegian who directed three movies, including Izzat , a story which follows Wasim and his youth gang years in the 1980s to his young adult years in the 1990s.
Frogner Park is the largest park in the city and covers 45 hectares; [4] the sculpture installation is the world's largest sculpture park made by a single artist. Frogner Park is the most popular tourist attraction in Norway, with between 1 and 2 million visitors each year, [ 5 ] and is open to the public at all times.
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It is the only feature film in Norwegian history to win an Academy Award. In 2006 the Norwegian/Canadian animated short film The Danish Poet, directed by Norwegian Torill Kove and narrated by Norwegian screen legend Liv Ullmann, won an Academy Award for Animated Short Film, and became the second Norwegian production to receive an Academy Award.