Åse Svenheim Drivenes (born 3 January 1977)[1] is a Norwegian documentary film director.
[2][3] She worked on assignment for Médecins sans frontières in 2008 at Mount Elgon in Kenya, documenting local people's accounts of attacks on civilians,[4][5] for Atlas Alliansen, a foundation assisting people with disabilities, on Young Voices, documenting young people in Tanzania and Uganda,[4] 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.
[5][7] Since 2017, she has been an associate professor at the Norwegian Film School[3] in the special course on Creative Documentary Directing, which began in 2015.
[8][9][10] 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"),[4] which followed a prostitute for a night, Rester ("Leftovers"), and www.anna.no.
[10] 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.