Trond Kvist

Political activist and director. From 1980 to 1985 leading Bergen Rock Club. Activist for youth self-organization. Worked for a period as carpenter. Later he studied media and literature at the University of Bergen and went into film-making in 1991 with the documentary: Gjøkungen - about a house-squatters' movement in Bergen, Norway. In 1995 he presented the film Boomerang to the acclaim of both critics and the public, although the film deals with the controversial topic of police brutality.