SYNOPSIS
When Amy, Marina and Hanna’s rape cases are dismissed by the Austin police, all three women try to find a way to rebuild their lives. They join forces with twelve other women in a ground-breaking federal class-action lawsuit, the first to argue that sexual assault isn’t prosecuted because it’s a crime that predominantly affects women. The group is determined to hold police and prosecutors accountable for their inaction, but their resilience is tested as they face setbacks from the system they hope to change.
Ultimately, AN ARMY OF WOMEN offers a hopeful look into a movement that aims to change the future for women everywhere.
Feature documentary / 84 mins / 2024
Director & DP: Julie Lunde Lillesæter
Producers: Natalya Sarch, Arne Dahr, Julie Lunde Lillesæter
Executive Producer: Julia Dahr
Co-Producers: Jessica Wolfson, Maria Willer, Bernhard von Hülsen
Editors: Trude Lirhus, Mathias Askeland
Composer: Therese Aune
Sound Designer: Liana Degtiar
Colorist: Tom Chr. Lilletvedt
Production Manager: Aurora Hannisdal
Production company: Differ Media
Co-producers: 3B-Produktion, Lost Footage Films
Sales Agent: Together Films
Impact Partner: Together Films
An Army of Women is a Norwegian/German/US co-production, made possible with support from the Norwegian Film Institute, Fritt Ord, Still Water Foundation, Viken Film Center, Arts Council Norway, NDR Norddeutscher Rundfunk, NRK, SVT & DR.
Team
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Julie Lunde Lillesæter
Director/Producer/DP
As director and cinematographer, Julie combines a strong visual eye with a commitment to social change. Her films explore themes such as women’s rights & equality, migration, and the climate crisis. An Army of Women is her first feature film.
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Natalya Sarch
Producer
Natalya thrives on developing projects that challenge us and nuance the world around us. She has broad international experience with expertise in co-productions, and has worked in the U.S., The Netherlands and Norway. Her recent projects include An Army of Women (SXSW, 2024) and With Grace (IDFA, 2024).
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Julia Dahr
Executive Producer
Julia is a critically acclaimed director and producer making films for an international audience. She is the director of the award-winning climate documentary Thank You For The Rain (2017), which was sold to broadcasters in more than 60 countries.
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Arne Dahr
Producer
Arne has worked as a producer for decades on a wide range of award-winning productions from documentaries, shorts, art installations, commercials, and feature films. His focus is on projects with a strong impact component for an international audience.
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Aurora Hannisdal
Production Manager/Impact Producer
Aurora is a Norwegian documentary film producer and cinematographer with a background as a newspaper journalist. Since 2018, she has worked with Differ Media on a range of different projects, including The Resilient (2019) and In Flux (in production).
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Trude Lirhus
Editor
After graduating from the Norwegian Film School in 2014, Trude has edited a number of successful feature films, documentaries, shorts and TV series, including Handling the Undead (2024), Everybody Hates Johan (2022), and Be Here (2019).
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Mathias Askeland
Editor
Mathias is an editor based in Oslo, Norway. After graduating from the London Film School in 2015 he has edited a number of award-winning short documentaries, shorts and TV, among them The Resilient (2019), When Pride Came To Town (2018), and the TV drama series Flus (2022) and Kasko (2022).
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Therese Aune
Composer
Therese is a Norwegian composer and artist. She has an experimental approach to music, and operates in a minimalistic soundscape primarily driven by analog synthesizers in combination with acoustic instruments.
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Liana Degtiar
Sound Designer
Liana is an accomplished sound designer and dialog editor with a sterling reputation in the world of film and documentaries. For nearly a decade, Liana has been at the forefront of numerous projects, and she has worked on films such as The Painter and the Thief (2020), Night Ride (2020) and Camping in Paradise (2023).
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Tom Chr. Lilletvedt
Colorist
Tom has delivered high end visual post production for two decades. He specializes in documentaries, and his track record includes The Act of Killing (2012), The Look of Silence (2014), Cold Case Hammarskjöld (2019), The Painter and the Thief (2020) and President (2021).
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Maria Willer
Co-Producer (Germany)
Maria is managing director and producer of the Berlin and Hamburg-based production company 3B-Produktion. Her focus is on documentaries about music, arts, history and current affairs, such as the Emmy-nominated film Music Under the Swastika (2022).
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Bernhard von Hülsen
Co-Producer (Germany)
Bernhard founded 3B-Produktion in 2013 together with Maria. Since then, they have been producing award-winning documentaries in the fields of culture and current affairs. Titles include Werner Herzog - Radical Dreamer (2022) and The Florence Foster Jenkins Story (2016).
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Jessica Wolfson
Co-Producer (USA)
Jessica has directed and produced many critically acclaimed documentary films and series. Her recent projects include the short The Paint Wizzard (SXSW 2020), the series Kansas Experiment (Independent Lens), Hot Grease (Discovery Channel) and Radio Unnameable (PBS).
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Chelsea Hernandez
Field Producer
Chelsea is a Mexican-American filmmaker based in Austin, Texas. Her work focuses on the unique perspectives of various issues and topics through the lens of ordinary people who challenge the status quo and injustices across the globe.
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Amy Bench
Cinematographer/Field Director
Amy is a cinematographer and filmmaker based in Austin, Texas, whose work spans documentary and fiction films. Her film More Than I Want To Remember (Paramount+, 2022) won a 2023 NAACP Image Award and was shortlisted for a 2023 Oscar.
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Michael Rowley
Cinematographer/Field Director
Michael is an award-winning filmmaker based in Dallas, Texas. He has directed films like Hurdle (2019), Praying for Armageddon (2023) and Racing Mister Fahrenheit (2024), and his films have been broadcast internationally by BBC, ARTE, Sundance Now, and Al Jazeera.