Thomas A. Østbye, born in 1979, is an artist and film director, working with documentary material in film, photography, and installations. He trained in film editing at the Norwegian Film Scool in Lillehammer. His documentaries have received numerous national and international awards. His short documentary "In your dreams" received numerous awards and nominations. "Veil" from 2008, and the fiction short "Human" from 2009 were also shown at various festivals around the world, while the documentary "Imagining Emanuel" premiered at the Hot Docs festival in Toronto in May 2011.