Biography
Born in Greenland in 1975, Ivalo Frank has lived in six countries including the United Kingdom and Paraguay. She holds a Philosophy degree from Lund University and is based between Berlin and Copenhagen, working as a artist and festival director.
Frank has made films in various countries including Bosnia, China and Greenland and the content of her films range from post-war portraits to post-colonial perspectives and in-depth interviews with citizens from the former DDR. Ivalo Frank is the director of (amongst others) 'Wild Dogs of Sarajevo' a film highlighting war-tourism and the survivors of the longest occupation of any capital in history and 'ECHOES', shot at abandoned II W.W. American military airbases in Greenland.
Her films are shown in both academic, art and film contexts and have traveled around the world, including to the Humboldt University of Berlin, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark and the IMC gallery in New York. Frank’s work has been selected for various international film festivals, including CPH:DOX and the Nordic Days Film Festival Lübeck. She has won a number of awards amongst others the Honorable Mention Award at the Los Angeles International Film Festival and the Award for Best Documentary at the London Underground Film Festival.
Besides film-making, Ivalo Frank is the director of Greenland Eyes – the biggest ever festival to provide an audience with a comprehensive insight into art, film and music from Greenland. She has contributed to a number of art catalogues, books and newspapers including H(Art) (BE), Asian Art Newspaper (UK) and Dagbladet Information (DK).
