Åse Svenheim Drivenes

Since 2017, she has been an associate professor at the Norwegian Film School in the special course on Creative Documentary Directing, which began in 2015.

At the 2015 Tromsø International Film Festival, the film won Tromsøpalmen, the prize for the best Nordic short or documentary film. It also won the award for best short or medium-length documentary at Den norske dokumentarfilmfestivalen [no], best medium-length documentary at Nordic/Docs, Die Grosse Klappe at Doxs!, and the German–Polish Tadeusz-Mazowiecki-Journalistenpreis [de]. It was shown on NRK television in March that year, and provoked discussion of the plight of Euro-orphans, children left alone or with elderly relatives because of the European market in migrant labour; it was also shown on Yle in Finland.

Drivenes' solo directorial debut was Vår mann i Kirkenes [no] ("Our Man in Kirkenes"), which premièred at the 2010 Tromsø International Film Festival and was subsequently shown at other film festivals. The film is a commentary on globalisation and outsourcing; its protagonist, Hallgeir Henriksen, is the newspaper Finnmarken's sole employee in small-town Kirkenes, unhappy with the minutiae he must cover, until management brings in a younger journalist and he finds himself even more frustrated.

Drivenes is from Tromsø. She worked on assignment for Médecins sans frontières in 2008 at Mount Elgon in Kenya, documenting local people's accounts of attacks on civilians, for Atlas Alliansen, a foundation assisting people with disabilities, on Young Voices, documenting young people in Tanzania and Uganda, and as a director for the second season of the Norwegian documentary television series Thaifjord (Et lite stykke Thailand [no]), shown in 2011, about Asian immigrant women married to Norwegian men. She has also worked with Mobilfilmene, a children's film workshop, and together with Tone Andersen [no] started a project to provide children seeking asylum in Norway with the means to make their own films about their experiences.

In 2006, as part of a four-woman collective with Andersen, Anita Larsen [no], and Kari Anne Moe [no], called Roger, she made three short films for a project documenting the unsavoury side of life in Oslo: Nattskift ("Night Shift"), which followed a prostitute for a night, Rester ("Leftovers"), and www.anna.no.

Åse Svenheim Drivenes (born 3 January 1977) is a Norwegian documentary film director.