Tea Lindeburg

Tea Lindeburg studied at the Danish Film School Super16 (2003-2006). She has written the TV-series EQUINOX for Netflix, as well as the podcast EQUINOX 1985 for DR, which was nominated for the Prix Italia 2017. She has directed a number of shorts and children and teenage TV-series for DR and TV 2 Denmark. From 1999-2007 she organized the film festival Cosmic Zoom and from 2009-2010 she worked with the Danish National Broadcasting Company as the host for ‘DR2 Premiere’. AS IN HEAVEN is Lindeburg’s feature debut.

Director’s Statement

“I first read Marie Bregendahl’s novel A Night of Death (1912) a few weeks after my son was born, and it has stuck with me ever since. Images kept reappearing in my mind; fragments of a woman’s face withered in labor pain, little girls who cannot say the words “thy will be done”, because what if God’s will is to take Mother…?
In adapting the book for screen, I chose to follow the eldest daughter, Lise, this 14-year-old girl who in one night loses her childhood, her future and faith in God. We leave her on the field where she disappears and becomes just another field hand, and by that we want to say that this is not just her story, it is the story of girls and women throughout history.”