AWARDS
ARTIC LIGHT and Asgeir Helgestad have been finalists and won at several international film and photography festivals around the world. The beauty, intimacy, honesty and bravery of Asgeir’s work have been praised by audiences and professional juries.
Film: A Call from the Wild / Skal hilse fra naturen
2024
Winner of Sustainable Planet Award, International Wildlife Film Festival, Missoula, Montana, USA
Winner of Audience Award, International Wildlife Film Festival, Missoula, Montana, USA
Film: Frost without Snow and Ice / Frost uten Snø og Is
2024
Winner of Arctic Documentary Award at North Pitch – Below Zero, Tromso, Norway
Film: Queen without Land / Dronning uten Land
2021
Winner of Audience Award, Festival International des Pertuis et Îles du Monde (FIPIM), Port-des-Barques, France
Winner of Audience Award, Le Festival International du Documentaire Maritime prend ses quartiers aux Musée Mer Marine de Bordeaux (FIDOM), Bordeaux, France
2020
Winner Best Environmental Film, Fort Myers Film Festival, Fort Myers, Florida, USA
Winner Feature Film, Best in Category Adventure, Nature Track Film Festival, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Winner of Feature Film Award, Wasatch Mountain Film Festival, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Winner of Best Nature Documentary, Memorial Maria Luisa Photo and Video Contest, Infiesto, Asturias, España
Winner of Golden Snowflake, International Festival of Winter Cinema, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Winner Best Nature/Wildlife Documentary, Canadian Diversity Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
2019
Finalist in Global Voices Category for World Wildlife Day Film Showcase, organized by Jackson Wild, the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA
Winner of Special prize for sending a clear message to humanity, Special Jury of the Limnological Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Baikal International Film Festival, Irkutsk, East Siberian region, Russia
Winner of Golden Hedgehog Award, 33e Festival international du film nature & environment, Grenoble, France
Winner of Best Conservation Film, CMS Vatavaran Environmental & Wildlife International Film Festival & Forum, New Delhi, Delhi, India
Winner of Audience Award, Sondrio International Film Festival on Parks, Sondrio, Italy
Winner of Stelvio National Park Award, Sondrio International Film Festival on Parks, Sondrio, Italy
Winner of Best Cinematography, XIV The World of Knowledge International Film Festival, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Winner of Environmental Award, INKAFEST Mountain Film Festival, Arequipa, Peru
Winner Beauty of Nature, EKOFILM International Film Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
Winner of Best Feature Film, Wolves Independent International Film Festival, Utenos, Lithuania
Winner of Parco Nazionale Gran Paradiso Award, Gran Paradiso Film Festival, Cogne, Italy
Winner of Best Feature Film, Elements Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada
Winner of Prix Ushuaia TV, Les Écrans dela Mer, Les Sables d'Olonne, France
Winner of Special Award Cie des Réals, Deauville Green Awards, International Festival for Responsible Film, Deauville, France
Second place Documentaries-television productions and independent films, International Nature Film Festival Gödöllö, Budapest, Hungary
Honorable mention Best Photo, Nordic docs, Fredrikstad, Norway
Nominated for Grand Prize, Ulju Mountain Film Festival, Ulsan, South Korea
2018
Winner of Best Film, Rotterdam Wildlife Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Winner of Grand Prix, Festival International du Film Ornithologique de Ménigoute, Ménigoute, France
Winner of Best Nordic film, Wildlife Vaasa International Nature Film Festival, Vaasa, Finland
Winner of Audience Award, Green Screen International Wildlife Film Festival, Eckernförde, Germany
Winner of Best Cinematography (Man and Nature) Award, Matsalu Nature Film Festival, Estonia
Winner of Best Environmental Film, International Wildlife Film Festival, Missoula, Montana, USA
Nominated for Theatrical Award, Wildscreen Festival, Bristol, UK
Photography
2015
Winner of Nordic Nature Photo Contest, NNPC category bird photos
2014
Highly commended at Global Arctic Award for a polar bear shot
Film: Arctic Survivors
2011
Merit Awards for Animal Behaviour and Cinematography at International Wildlife Film Festival, Missoula, Montana, USA
Film: The Boy who Adored the Wilderness
2007
Winner of Environmental Award at Japan Wildlife Film Festival, Toyama-Ken, Japan
2006
Winner of Special jury award for creativity and ability to sensitize at Telenatura, Spain
Finalist at Festival International du Film Ornithologique de Ménigoute, France
2005
Winner of Jury’s special Award at Matsalu Nature Film Festival, Estonia
Photography
2005
Winner of the category, Birds at a stills-competition arranged by International Federation of Wildlife Photography, IFWP
Film: Wild Reindeer
2004
Nominated nine times in Japan, USA, England, France, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Russia and Finland
2002
Winner of BBC Newcomer Award, Wildscreen, Bristol, UK
Other awards
2003
Winner of Culture Award from the province of Buskerud, Norway
2001
Winner of Government’s Debutant Award for children literature with the book Dyr i Skogen (Animals in the Forest) (Both text and pictures), Norway
Film: Buzzard Summer
1994
Nominated at Wildscreen, Bristol, UK
Photography
1993
Winner of Eric Hosking Award at Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition (BBC Wildlife Magazine, Natural History Museum London), London, UK
1992
Runner up at Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition with portfolio of six pictures (BBC Wildlife Magazine, Natural History Museum London), London, UK