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Jens Assur (born April 29, 1970) is a Swedish photographer, director, scriptwriter, and film producer. His movie, ''Killing the Chickens, to Scare the Monkeys'', premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 and has since won a number of prestigious prices. At the Sundance Film Festival in 2012, Jens Assur was given the Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award for his movies, ''The Last Dog in Rwanda'', and ''Killing the Chickens, to Scare the Monkeys'', and for the script for his first feature film ''Close Far Away''. Created in 1996 to celebrate 100 years of cinema, the annual award recognizes and supports a visionary filmmaker on his or her next film.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.indiewire.com/article/jens-assur-is-2012-sundance-nhk-international-filmmaker-award-winner# )〕 ==Early career== Jens Assur started his career at Dagbladet in Sundsvall, as a reporter and photographer, 1986-1990. In 1990-1997 he was employed as a staff photographer at ''Expressen'', a daily newspaper in Scandinavia. He produced several photo essays from Somalia, Rwanda, South Africa and former Yugoslavia amongst other countries earning a Photographer of the year at the age of 23.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="Jag var ovän med alla" )〕 In 1997 Assur left Expressen to start his company Studio Jens Assur and worked on art and film projects. During the 1990:s Jens Assur was devoted to depict developing countries, but in recent years he has switched focus to the industrialized parts of the world. Examples of these are his works ''This is My Time, This is My Life'','' Hunger'' and ''Thailand – A Charter Paradise.'' In addition to his art and film projects, Jens Assur holds lectures and is featured on news programmes, television shows and in magazines.〔(Dagens gäst: Fotografen Jens Assur - Gomorron Sverige | SVT Play )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jens Assur」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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