Behind the Scenes

Dovre, October 16, 2026 Trollfilm has been awarded up to NOK 400,000 from FORREGION Innlandet, administered by Innlandet County Municipality. The grant is for a one-year research pre-project, Digitally Controlled Multiplane Camera Stand for Stop-Motion Animation. Our research partner is Volda University College (Høgskulen i Volda), and this week we held the kick-off meeting that started the work. An old idea, a new machine The multiplane camera stand dates from the 1920s. Ani

Dovre, September 9, 2026 [This article is also available in Norwegian further down the page.] Today Norway said goodbye to His Majesty the late King Harald V, laid to rest at Oslo Cathedral after a state funeral that drew mourners from across the country and the world. At Trollfilm, our thoughts go back seventeen years, to a spring evening in Oslo when the King's path crossed with one of our films in a way none of us have forgotten. On 18 March 2009, King Harald attended the

DOVRE, December. 2025 – Journalist and photographer Ida Kippersund Bringslid from NRK, Norway's national broadcaster, came to visit our studio here at Trollfilm. The result is a beautiful photo feature that I wanted to share with our international readers—though, as the article is in Norwegian, I thought I'd give you a brief summary of what it's about. The feature takes you inside our studio on Dovre, following the work we do here: making animated films about difficult topic

TOKYO, November 3rd – When the invitation arrived to lead a stop-motion workshop at Kineko International Film Festival for young Japanese children, Anita and Claus knew this was a challenge worth every ounce of preparation. And what a preparation it became. The weeks leading up to this day were filled with careful planning, creative problem-solving, and one very ambitious build: three portable multiplane stands, custom-designed and ready to travel across the world. A young a

When we completed " Mother Didn't Know " in 2020, the world had just shut down. The pandemic cast a shadow over film festivals and releases, and our quiet twelve-minute film slipped into the world with barely a whisper. It was a challenging time to share anything new. But sometimes, films have other plans. This autumn, we received a wonderful surprise: our film has been selected for the Norwegian Film Institute 's "Shorts for Children" – a collection of seven Norwegian short

Anne Maria Aa from Dovre was a props and background/set builder on the film Mother Didn't Know. She created this beautiful "making-of book" documenting the production process, which she's allowing to be shared. The whole book can be viewed here. From one of the pages in the "making-of book" for the proof of concept film "Mother didn't know" - created and designed by Anita Killi and Marianne Bundgaard Nielsen. The film Mother Didn't Know was made as a showcase or proof-of-con