Tuva Novotny

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Summary

Tuva Novotny is a Swedish actor, writer, and director whose work includes the films Blind Spot and Britt-Marie Was Here and the series Dag. Her directing has explored mental health and suicide, women’s lives, and the pressures of modern relationships. Novotny has called herself an “equalist,” spoken in favor of equality and diverse, representative storytelling, and said she works deliberately against discrimination. She has also criticized narrow selection practices in film and spoken about making a film on Danish asylum policy; she says she is not politically active in a party-political sense and does not support gender quotas.