Awards
2016 The Galway Fleadh, International Film Festiva - Galway, Ireland
The WALL - Winner Amnesty International Feature Film of The Year
2015 Traversevideo - Toulouse, France
The Temptress - Nominated: Best Artistic Film
2014 Northern Character International Film and TV Festival - Murmansk, Russia
The Temptress - Winner: Best animaton film
2013 East Silver Eye Award - Prague, Czech Republic
The Temptress - Nominated: Best Documentary in Eastern Europe.
2011 Cronograf International Documentary Film Festival - Chisinau, Moldova
Killing Girls - Nominated: Best International Documentary Film
2010 12th Madurai Film Festival - Madurai, India
A Beautiful Tragedy - Nominated: Best Film
2010 Northern Character International Film and TV Festival - Murmansk, Russia
To Build A Memory Upon Oneself - Winner: Ccultural Film of the year
2010 Northern Character International Film and TV Festival - Murmansk, Russia
To Build A Memory Upon Oneself - Special Prize: Best Editing
2010 Nordox Nordic Documentary Festival - Beijing, China
Killing Girls - Nominated: Best Film
2010 Saratov Sufferings - Saratov, Russia
Killing Girls - Winner: Saratov State Award
2010 Prvi Kadar International festival for Documentary films - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Killing Girls - Nominated: Best Film
2010 VDFF International Documenntary Festival - Vilnius, Lithuania
Killing Girls - Nominated: Best Film
2010 Saratov Sufferings - Saratov, Russia
Killing Girls - Nominated: Best Film
2010 Rwanda International Film Festival - Kigali, Rawanda
A Beautiful Tragedy - Nominated: Best Film
2010 Taiwan International Children's Film Festival
A Beautiful Tragedy - Special Screenings
2010 57h Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival - Belgrade, Serbia
Killing Girls - Nominated: The Golden Medal of Belgrade
2010 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Thessaloniki, Greece
Killing Girls - Special Screenings
2009 Golden Chest International Film Festival - Sofia, Bulgaria
Killing Girls - Winner: European Grand Prix for Best Documentary
2009 13th Ismailia International Festival - Giza, Egypt
A Beautiful Tragedy - Winner: The Grand Prix Best Overall Film - All Catagories
2009 37th Festival der Nationen - Ebensee, Austria
A Beautiful Tragedy - Winner: The Silber Award - Best Long Children’s International Documentary
2009 4th annual Lola Kenya Children’s Screen Audiovisual International Film Festival
A Beautiful Tragedy: Winner: Best Documentary
A Beautiful Tragedy: 2nd Prize: Mboni Silver Award for Best Childrens Film
2009 Cronograf International Documentary Film Festival - Chisinau, Moldova
A Beautiful Tragedy - Nominated: Best International Documentary Film
2009 EBS International Documentary.Festival - Seoul, South Korea
A Beautiful Tragedy - Nominated: Best Art Documentary
2009 Artdocfest International Festival for creative Documentary Films - Moscow, Russia
Killing Girls - Nominated: Best Documentary
2009 13th Ismailia International Festival for Documentary & Short Films, Ciaro Egypt
A Beautiful Tragedy - Nominated: Best Documentary
2009 Foyle International Film festival, Derry / Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Killing Girls- Nominated: Best Documentary
2009 The Norwegian Film Festival - Haugesund, Norway
Killing Girls - Nominated: Amanda Awards - Best Documentary
2009 Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival - Pärnu, Estonia
Killing Girls - Nominated: The Peoples Award - Best International Documentary
A Beautiful Tragedy - Special Selection
2009 The Galway Fleadh, International Film Festiva - Galway, Ireland
Killing Girls - Nominated: Best International Documentary
2009 Festivals of Festivals - St Petersburg, Russia
A Beautiful Tragedy - Nominated: Best International Documentary
Killing Girls - Nominated: Best International Documentary
2009 The Norwegian Short Documentary Film Festival - Grimstad , Norway
Killing Girls - Nominated: Best Norwegian Documentary
2009 Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival - Doha, Qatar
A Beautiful Tragedy - Winner: Jury Award - Best International Documentary
2009 Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival - Doha, Qatar
A Beautiful Tragedy nominated for best International Documentary.
2009 56th Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival - Belgrade, Serbia
A Beautiful Tragedy - Winner: The Golden Medal Of Belgrade - Best International Documentary
2009 56th Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival - Belgrade, Serbia
Beautiful Tragedy - Nnominated: best International film.
2009 Eurodoc Festival - Oslo, Norway
Killing Girls - Special screening
2009 Guadaljara International Film Festival - Guadaljara, Mexico
A Beautiful Tragedy - Special Screening
2009 Free Word Foundation - Oslo, Norway
Killing Girls - Special Screenings
2009 The Norwegian Documentary Film Festival - Oslo, Norway
Killing Girls - Nominated: Best Norwegian Documentary of the Year
2009 Kosmorama International Documentary Film Festival - Trondheim, Norway
Killing Girls - Nominated: Best International Film
2009 Norwegian Film Week - Guadalajara Mexico
Beautiful Tragedy - Nominated: Best International Documentary
2009 World film Tartu Festival of Visual Culture - Tartu, Estonia
Beautiful Tragedy - Nominated: Best International film
2009 Bergamo Film Meeting International Film Festival - Bergamo, Italy
Beautiful Tragedy - Nominated: Best International Film
2008 1st Northern Character International Film and TV Festival - Murmansk, Russia
A Beautiful Tragedy - Special award: Directing Excellence
2008 Filmfest - Eberswalde, Germany
A Beautiful Tragedy - Nominated: Best International film
2008 50th Nordic Film Days - Lübeck, Germany
A Beautiful Tragedy - Nominated: Best International film
2008 Reykjavík International Film Festival - Reykjavík, Iceland
A Beautiful Tragedy - Nominated: Best International film
2008 The Norwegian Film Festival - Haugesund, Norway
A beautiful Tragedy - Nominated: Amanda Awards - Best Documentary
2008 Golden Chest International Film Festival - Sofia, Bulgaria
A Beautiful Tragedy - Nominated: Best International Film
2008 The North Cape Film Festival - Honningsvåg, Norway
A Beautiful Tragedy - Nominated: Best International Film
2008 Awarded Norwegian State Film
Artist Stipend
2008 Volda Documentary International Festival - Volda, Norway
A Beautiful Tragedy - Nominated: Best International Film
2008 Grimstad Short Film Festival - Grimstad, Norway
A Beautiful Tragedy - Nominated: Best International Film
2008 The Galway Fleadh, International Film Festiva - Galway, Ireland
A Beautiful Tragedy - Nominated: Best International Film
2008 Kosmorama Trondheim International Film Festival - Trondheim, Norway
A Beautiful Tragedy - Nominated: Best International Film
2008 Tromsø International Film Festival - Tromso, Norway
A Beautiful Tragedy - Nominated: Best International Film
2006 Yara and Care International National Stills Photo competition
1st and 3rd Place
2006 Norwegian State Human Rights Award - Oslo, Norway
Love Letters from a Children’s Prison - Nominated: Best Documentary
2006 Unicef Facing Children International Film festival - Signis, Romania
Love Letters from a Children’s Prison - Special Award - Best International Film
2006 48th Nordic Film Days - Lübeck, Germany
Love Letters from a Children’s Prison - Nominated: Best Documentary
2006 Calgary International Film Festival - Calgary, Canada
Love Letters from a Children’s Prison - Nominated - Best International Film
2006 Filmtältet - Malmö Sweden
Love Letters from a Children’s Prison - Nominated: Best Documentary
2006 Dokufest International Film Festival - Prestina, Kosovo
Love Letters from a Children’s Prison - Special Merit Award
2006 Stranger than Fiction Documentary Film Festival - Dublin Ireland>
Love Letters from a Children’s Prison - Nominated: Best Documentary
2006 Buster Copenhagen International Film Festival - Copenhagen, Denmark
Love Letters from a Children’s Prison - Nominated: Best International Documentary
2006 Dokufest International Film Festival - Prestina, Kosovo
Love Letters from a Children’s Prison - Nominated: Best International Documentary
2006 Parnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival - Parnu, Estonia
Love Letters from a Children’s Prison - Nominated: Best Film
2006 Grimstad Short Film Festival - Grimstad, Norway
Love Letters from a Children’s Prison - Special Merit Award
Love Letters from a Children’s Prison - Official Competition Selection
2006 Festivals of Festivals - St Petersburg, Russia
Love Letters from a Children’s Prison - Documentary film of the year
2006 AFI Docs (Silverdocs) Documentary Film Festival - Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Love Letters From a Children’s Prison - Official AFI Selection
2006 53rd Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival - Belgrade, Serbia
Love Letters from a Children’s Prison - Winner: FIPRESCI Film Critic Award for Best Film
2006 Time to Live International Film Festival - St Petersburg, Russia
Love Letters from a Children’s Prison - Winner: Documentary of the Year
Love Letters from a Children’s Prison - Official competition selection
2006 United Nations Geneva International Festival on Human Rights - Geneva, Switzerland
Love Letters from a Children’s Prison - Official competition selection
2006 Belgrade International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia
Love Letters from a Children’s Prison - Official competition selection
2006 Gøteborg International Film Festival - Gøteborg, Sweden
Love Letters from a Children’s Prison - Official Competition Selection
2006 Tromsø International Film Festival (Films from the North), Tromsø, Norway
Love Letters from a Children’s Prison - Special Merit Award
2003 European First Documentary Competition - Arabe de Famec, France
Love Letters from a Children’s Prison, (rough cut) - 2nd Place: Best Film
Love Letters from a Children’s Prison, (rough cut) - Public Prize
2002 United Nations ”Norway” Exhibition New York
David Kinsella’s Stills from Norway
2002 Helge Hummevol University - Missouri USA
Scholarship
2000 Eircell Press Photographer of the Year - Dublin, Ireland
Documentary Press photographer of the Year - 1st Place
2000 The Great Picture Contest, USA. (The world's largest photo contest) - USA
1st Place
2000 Press Photographer of the Year A-pressen – Oslo, Norway
1st Place
1999 The Great Picture Contest, USA. (The world's largest photo contest) – USA
2nd Place
1999 Press Photographer of the year A-pressen - Oslo, Norway
1st Place
1999 David Kinsella Norwegian Fuji Film Press photographer of the year
3rd Place Sports Story
1999 Eircell Press Photographer of the year - Dublin, Ireland
2nd place: People picture
1998 Fuji European Press Picture of the year - Oslo, Norway
1st Place
1998 Fuji Press Photographer of the year - Oslo, Norway
1st Place
1998 The Great Picture Contest, USA. (The world's largest photo contest) - USA
2nd Place
1998 Eircell Press Photographer of the year - Dublin, Ireland
1st Place: Picture story
1997 Eircell Press Photographer of the year - Dublin, Ireland
2nd Place: Picture story
1995 Press Photographer of the year A-pressen - Oslo, Norway
1st Place
1981 Northern Ireland Press Photographer of the Year
1st Place