Kari Skogland

Kari Skogland is an Ottawa, Ontario-born Canadian film director, screenwriter, and producer.

Private life

Kari Skogland is married. She has two daughters.

Career

Skogland started as an editor. Then she moved on to directing, starting with award-winning television commercials and music videos. Then she became a director of television shows, beginning with 1996's Traders.Traders was nominated for several Geminis including Best Director, and won Best Series.

Her first film, The Size of Watermelons won the Silver Award at WorldFest Houston. Her CBC film White Lies was nominated for several Geminis and an International Emmy and won a Tout Ecran. She also directed 50 Dead Men Walking starring Sir Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess and Rose McGowan in March 2009. She directed episodes of Boardwalk Empire, The Borgias and in 2014 the miniseries Sons of Liberty and episodes of the History Channel's Vikings.

Filmography