Fredrik Thorsen is a writer, director, and editor. His first film, Wake Linda, a half-hour drama, won 1muerous awards at international film festivals, including; the Palme d'Or (Grande Prize) at Huy World Festival of Short Films in Belgium, and the Best Fiction Film (short film category) at the Montreal World Film Festival. As an editor he as worked on feature films, television pilots, and feature length documentaries winning the Leo Award for Best Editing on a Feature Length Drama for Stone Of Destiny, director Charles Martin Smith.

Fredrick is a self-taught entrepreneur who founded Comet Post Production Inc., a post-production facility which provided state-of-the-art editing services for the local and international film & television industry for over 10 years.

Since 2009, Fredrik Thorsen has used his success as a filmmaker and editor to inspire hundreds of vulnerable youth in the downtown Eastside as key instructor at a non-profit charitable organization founded by the late William Vince, an Oscar-nominated Vancouver filmmaker and advocate for youth at risk.

Fredrik enjoys inspiring vulnerable young adults to overcome barriers and follow their filmmaking dreams. He believes that storytelling is at the heart of a thriving community, and that everyone should be able to tell their story and share it with the world.