[1][2] Bustnes holds a degree in Directing for Television from the College of Film and TV at Lillehammer, Norway.
[3] His international success came with the 2008 film Big John [no], which won Best Nordic Documentary at Nordisk Panorama in Malmö, The Golden Chair in Grimstad, and The Crystal Heart Award in the United States.
The press release praised him as one of the region's brightest filmmakers, as well as a director and producer who has demonstrated the international quality of his documentaries.
[5] His 2017 documentary Golden Dawn Girls was selected to more than 50 film festivals around the world and won at the Human International Documentary Film Festival, One World Brussels and Nordic/ Docs.
[6] Bustnes's most recent project are Phantoms of Sierra Madre,[7] presented at CPH:WIP forum,[8] and The Corporate Spy, already granted NOK 900,000 by Nordisk Film & TV Fond.