Klara Björk

Klara Björk lecturer and head of the film department at Akademin Valand, Göteborgs universitet.

Klara Björk´s interest lies within the field of cultivation and politics and how the camera as a tool can be the used as a way of consciousness raising in image literacy. She is active as a producer and partner in the production company Filmkreatörerna, established 1996. The filmography as producer consists of features, documentaries and installations with both national and international distribution. She was a member of the board at the director’s association 2003-2004 and in the first board of Swedish WIFT (Women in Film and Television). She is educated at EAVE (European Audio Visuell Entrepreneur) and at Filmhögskolan at Göteborg University. In 2016, as part of the Children film school, she received the Gullspira prize at the Swedish film awards (with Linda Sternö and Kalle Boman).