Kari Skogland

Kari Skogland
Skogland at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Occupation	film director, screenwriter, & producer

Kari Skogland is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. She directed episode 10 of the sixth season of The Walking Dead.^[1][2]

Private life

Born in Ottawa, Canada, Kari Skogland is married. She has two daughters.^[3]

Career

Skogland started as an editor.^[4] Then she moved on to directing, starting with award-winning television commercials and music videos.^[5] Then she became a director of television shows, beginning with 1996's Traders.^[6] Traders was nominated for several Geminis including Best Director, and won Best Series.^[7]

Her first film, The Size of Watermelons won the Silver Award at WorldFest Houston. Her CBC film White Lies was nominated for several Geminis and an International Emmy and won a Tout Ecran. She also directed 50 Dead Men Walking starring Sir Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess and Rose McGowan in March 2009.^[8] She directed episodes of Boardwalk Empire, The Borgias and in 2014 the miniseries Sons of Liberty^[9] and episodes of the History Channel's Vikings.

Filmography

• Dead at 21 (1994) TV series (unknown episodes)
• Traders (5 episodes, 1996)
• The Size of Watermelons (1996)
• Men with Guns (1997)
• La Femme Nikita (1 episode, 1997)
• The Crow: Stairway to Heaven (2 episodes, 1998)
• Sins of the City (1998) TV series (unknown episodes)
• White Lies (1998)
• Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (1998)
• Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return (1999)^[10]
• Nature Boy (2000)
• Family Law (1 episode, 2000)
• The Courage to Love (2000)
• Zebra Lounge (2001)
• Liberty Stands Still (2002)^[11]
• Queer as Folk (3 episodes, 2001–2003)
• Riverworld (2003)
• The L Word (1 episode, 2004)
• Chicks with Sticks (2004)
• Terminal City (2 episodes, 2005)
• Rapid Fire (2005)
• Banshee (2006)
• The Stone Angel (2007)^[12]
• Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)
• The Listener (5 episodes, 2009–2011)
• Endgame (1 episode, 2011)
• Being Erica (1 episode, 2011)
• Boardwalk Empire (episode 4 in season 3, 2012)
• Under the Dome (2 episodes, 2013)
• Vikings (episode 7 & 8 in season 2, 2014)
• Sons of Liberty (2015)
• Fear The Walking Dead (episode 4 & 5, 2015)
• The Walking Dead (episode 10 in season 6, 2016)
• House of Cards (episode 11 in season 4, 2016)

References

1. "Kari Skogland". MUBI. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
2. "Kari Skogland". FilmAffinity. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
3. "Filmmaker mom learns to direct traffic". The Chronicle Herald. 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
4. "Kari Skogland". International Film Festival Rotterdam. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
5. "Kari Skogland". northernstars.ca. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
6. "Kari Skogland". Toronto International Film Festival. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
7. "Interview with Kari Skogland". firstweekendclub.ca. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
8. "Fifty Dead Men Walking". Tribute (magazine). Retrieved 2015-12-02.
9. "History's 'Sons of Liberty' Enlists 'Copper' Alum (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. 2014-06-05. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
10. "Kari Skogland". Miramax. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
11. "Liberty stands still". cineman.ch. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
12. "Films by Kari Skogland to see on NFB.ca". National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 2015-12-02.

External links

• Kari Skogland at the Internet Movie Database
• Kari Skogland at AllMovie
• Kari Skogland at Rotten Tomatoes
• Kari Skogland at Metacritic