达拉·范·杜森（Dara Van Dusen）Born in New York, USA in 1986, the writer and director studied at the Polish National Film School in Łódź. She now lives and works in Oslo, Norway where she has received a number of development and production grants from the Norwegian Film Institute. Her short film Significant Others competed in the Cannes Cinéfondation; her most recent short, The Blind Man – an adaptation of a Bertolt Brecht short story – screened at the Nordic Panorama Film Festival and was nominated for Best Nordic Short.