Romance welcomes Gaute Hesthagen ! Showreel : (click here)

Gaute Hesthagen (1978) was born in the cold north of Norway. His first encounter with cinema was the legendary Norwegian film “Flaaklypa Grand Prix”. Being three years old, high-pitched sounds and scary talking puppets were a bit too much for the boy. He sat on the floor during the whole film and thought: “I’ll never set foot in a movie theatre – ever again.” Fortunately, that was all soon forgotten. During his high-school years, he and some friends started making their own films. Almost every movie was about a guy who chases and shoots down villains with the showdown crescendo of small firecracker explosions. This went on for a while– until they accidentally burned down an old shack in the forest and had to pay for the damages. That put an end to such productions for some time.
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