Career Highlights

• Danish director and screenwriter who studied film making at the University of Copenhagen and the National Film School of Denmark
  
• Scherfig made a name for herself in 2000 with Italian for Beginners and in 2002 with Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
• An Education follows a British teenager’s coming-of-age in 1961, when London was torn between the strait-laced, post-war period and the emerging free spirit of the decade

Lone Scherfig is a Dutch born filmmaker, originally from Copenhagen. She has received a number of awards for her films, Italian for Beginners, The Birthday Trip and On Our Own. Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself was her first English language film and won the FIPRESCI prize in 2003. Scherfig has collected 22 awards and 11 nominations for her work, including the Silver Berlin Bear at the 2001 Berlin International Film Festival for Italian for Beginners

Lone's most recent film, An Education, is an adaptation of British journalist (The Observer) and author Lynn Barber's memoir. The film won the World Cinema Audience Award and the World Cinema Cinematography Award. An Education was adapted from a screenplay written by novelist Nick Hornby, who wrote the novels High Fidelity, Fever Pitch and About a Boy.

Lone Scherfig joins ThinkTalk Host Erika Thomas to discuss her film, An Education, her career and gives some advice for aspiring filmmakers. This interview aired October 5, 2009