Dara Van Dusen is a writer and director from New York, currently residing in Oslo, Norway. She is the recipient of the coveted Norwegian Film Institute Fellowship, and has received numerous development and production grants from the Norwegian Film Institute. Her 2008 Short, SIGNIFICANT OTHERS competed in Cannes Official Selection. Her most recent short, THE BLIND MAN – an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s short story, – was nominated for Best Nordic Short and selected in the Nordic Panorama. After studying at the famed Polish National Film School in Lodz, she has split her time between developing her own material and working as a script supervisory across Film and TV.