Curiosidades

Daughter of journalist Gerd Osten.

Suzanne Osten was a Swedish film director, stage director and screenwriter.

In November, 2014, Osten was appointed Sweden's first Children's Film Ambassador by the Swedish Film Institute. In this role, Osten worked for the development of film for children in the country. The position began in 2015.

The film The Girl, the Mother and the Demons (2016) was written and directed by Osten based on her fictionalized autobiography, Flickan, mamman och soporna [The Girl, the mother and the rubbish] (1998), which was revised for the stage by Erik Uddenberg with the same title. The film, with the release date April 2016, was shot for the age of 11 years and up. However, the Swedish censor rated it from 15 years and up in March 2016. The film had already been screened for selected families in Sweden and marketing was in progress when this decision was made. Osten's colleagues initiated a protest, and the rating decision was appealed successfully.

She won the award for Best Director at the 22nd Guldbagge Awards for the film The Mozart Brothers.

Osten's father was a social democrat and resistance man who came to Sweden when he fled from the Nazi regime in Germany.

Suzanne Osten was a pioneer in developing theater for children. Throughout her career, she has advocated for art and culture for children and youth. She asserted that the child perspective is a question of power, about describing power relationships, and about seeing power from the perspective of the powerless, i.e., from an underdog perspective.

Outside of Sweden, her movie "The Guardian Angel", was selected for Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990.

In 1963, Osten graduated from Viggbyholmsskolan, a high school with a curriculum focused on language and creative subjects, and, after this, she studied art, literature and history at Lund University where she began directing at the university theater.

Osten formed one of Sweden's first fringe theatrical companies, Fickteatern, and began her career as a stage director there in the late 1960s.