Elisa Fernanda Pirir
Producer
Guatemala
Elisa was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala. She moved to Northern Norway in 2007. Elisa has been working with several acclaimed international directors such as Thomas Arslan, Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego, Nabil Ayouch, César Díaz, Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Laura Mora, in addition to some of Norway’s most acclaimed directors. In 2023, she founded her own company STÆR in Northern Norway. In early 2023, her first feature documentary “Calls from Moscow” premiered in the Berlinale International Film Festival Forum, Hotdocs and MoMA, co-production “The Hypnosis” (PÖFF 2023) by Ernst De Geer won three prizes at Karlovy Vary and her first short film “Almost Invisible” was nominated for the Best Norwegian Short at Kortfilmfestivalen, the Bergen International Film Festival, the Tirana International Film Festival, the Tromsø International Film Festival and the Morelia International Film Festival 2023. New films currently in co-production include: Nabil Ayouch’s “Everybody Loves Touda” (Cannes 2024), Inadelso Cossa’s “The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder” (Berlinale Forum 2024), Selma Cervantes’ “Yume”, Juan Andrés Arango’s “Where the River Begins”, Ester Martin’s “A Sweetness from Nowhere”, Levan Koguashvili’s “Guria”, Carlos Reygadas’ “A Wake of Umbra”, Vytautas Katkus’ “The Visitor”, and Annemarie Jacir’s next feature “All Before You”. The production of Norway’s first joik musical “Árru”, directed by Elle Sofe Sara, starts in autumn 2024.