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Biography

Tanne Sommer is a writer/director from Denmark. Tanne was 14 years’ old when she was accepted into the youth-talent Filmschool Station Next in Copenhagen, Denmark. At the age of 18 she graduated and wrote/directed a lot of short films like the "animal-trilogy", a dark humor comedy trilogy featuring "A Horse

Named Allan", "Rabbit" and "Holy Hen". All the films have been nominated and won several film festivals such as Seattle International Filmfestival. Tanne has recently made a comedy TV-show called "Sperm", which is on Prime Video. 

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Tanne has a huge love for comedy, often with a religious twist. She is very playfull when she makes films, and that playfulness is a huge part of how she lives her life and who she is as a person.

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Awards

WINS

Netflix Series Competition                   

IndieX, Los Angeles, Best Picture

IndieX, Los Angeles, Best Original Screenplay

IndieX, Los Angeles, Best Director

LW: London Int. Filmfestival, Best Comedy

LW: London Int. Filmfestival, Best Short film

Arizona Short Filmfestival, Best Film

Niagara Canada Int. Filmfest, Best Short film

Pillusion Filmfestival, Audience Award

Rome Prisma Ind. Film Awards, Best Film

Hollywood Shortfilmfestival, Best int. Film

Hugo Awards, Best Film

NFFTY, Seattle, Audience Award

Ekko Shortlist Awards, Audience Award

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

Seattle International Filmfestvival

New York Shortfilmfestival

Bremen Shortfilmfestival

Directed by Woman, Turkey

Venice Shorts

Venezia Shorts

Indie Shorts Awards Cannes

Västerås Filmfestval, nominated: Best Actor

Birmingham Filmfestival, nominated: Best Film

International Moving Festival

Nuuk International Filmfestival

Copenhagen Short Filmfestival

Giffoni Filmfestival

SILA                   

Holy Hen                         

Holy Hen                         

Holy Hen                         

Holy Hen              

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Holy Hen            

Holy Hen        

Holy Hen

Holy Hen

A Horse named Allan

A Horse named Allan

A Horse named Allan

Holy Hen

Holy Hen

Holy Hen

Holy Hen

Holy Hen

Holy Hen

Holy Hen

Holy Hen

Holy Hen

Holy Hen

Holy Hen

Holy Hen

Holy Hen

Holy Hen

 

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