Mari Finnestad
Senior Advisor, Head of Film, based in Oslo
Mari is director and scriptwriter, with over 17 years’ experience in the movie and television industry.
In recent years she has been responsible for over 100 movies for both private and public clients, including The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration, The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training, Oslo Municipality, Norwegian Organization for Asylum Seekers, and the Aschehoug Publishing House.
Before working at Leidar, she worked mostly in television, and won the Gullruten award for her efforts. She had been employed by TV2 for several years, and had the pleasure of making a series of entertainment programmes that took her to Namibia, Uganda, Cambodia and the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and South Africa.
Mari is a graduate with Master of Arts in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester, with emphasis on history, social Anthropology and comparative politics.