Elin Brimheim Heinesen
- Actress
- Script and Continuity Department
Elin Brimheim Heinesen was born 25. June in 1958 in Tórshavn, the Faroe
Islands. She went to Denmark to study in her mid twenties and stayed in
the country for 25 years, most of the time living and working in
Copenhagen. In 1990 she gave birth to a daughter. She moved back to the
Faroes in 2007 where she lives today.
Education - Elin holds a university degree (cand.mag.) in aesthetics and culture and also has an education in business economics from Copenhagen Business School as well as being an educated screenwriter from Den Danske Filmskole (the Danish Film School).
Experience - Elin has wide-ranging experience in the fields of Internet, marketing, media and culture and has worked in communication and marketing for many years as head of media and marketing, journalist and editor in chief in on-line and printed media. Elin also has a background as a singer and songwriter.
Film/TV experiences - She has made music videos and music programs on a freelance basis for Faroese TV and radio since 1975.
In 1989 she played a little role in the Faroese movie "Atlantic Rhapsody" by Faroese film director Katrin Ottarsdóttir.
In 1992-93 she was the Marketing Manager at SMS in Tórshavn - a shopping center. Among other things Elin was responsible for producing weekly five-minute TV broadcasts for national TV, which included reports and adverts.
Elin was co-producer on a TV-film in two episodes about her father, the Faroese author Jens Pauli Heinesen in 2002. She was also responsible for the music and the editing of the film.
Education - Elin holds a university degree (cand.mag.) in aesthetics and culture and also has an education in business economics from Copenhagen Business School as well as being an educated screenwriter from Den Danske Filmskole (the Danish Film School).
Experience - Elin has wide-ranging experience in the fields of Internet, marketing, media and culture and has worked in communication and marketing for many years as head of media and marketing, journalist and editor in chief in on-line and printed media. Elin also has a background as a singer and songwriter.
Film/TV experiences - She has made music videos and music programs on a freelance basis for Faroese TV and radio since 1975.
In 1989 she played a little role in the Faroese movie "Atlantic Rhapsody" by Faroese film director Katrin Ottarsdóttir.
In 1992-93 she was the Marketing Manager at SMS in Tórshavn - a shopping center. Among other things Elin was responsible for producing weekly five-minute TV broadcasts for national TV, which included reports and adverts.
Elin was co-producer on a TV-film in two episodes about her father, the Faroese author Jens Pauli Heinesen in 2002. She was also responsible for the music and the editing of the film.
