Maja M. Johnsen — visual storyteller and AI-native filmmaker

The hero film for The Saboteurs — the pan-European public-health campaign for JA PreventNCD, the EU's largest-ever health-promotion and disease-prevention project, led by Norway and rolling out across 25 countries. Rather than blaming individual willpower, the campaign makes visible the small everyday forces — the "saboteurs" — in the world around us that quietly shape our choices from morning to night: in shops and eateries, at work, and in the spaces we move through. Directed by Aksel Hennie and produced by Einar Film, the film blends live action, AI-assisted workflows, 3D and VFX — one of the first larger-scale Norwegian hybrid productions of its kind. It launched at the project's annual meeting in Rome before representatives from all 25 participating countries.

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A promotional short film created for Rednote's Red Gala, inspired by the true story of a sheep with the ambition to become a sheepdog. "Hope's Ambition" explores themes of ambition, doubt, and what it really means to step away from the herd and move toward something uncertain — even when you don't fully know how it's going to play out. Built entirely in Freepik using the nodes in Spaces for collaboration, iteration and finalisation. This project represents a milestone in AI-driven filmmaking at scale, bringing together an international team of AI artists to push the boundaries of what's possible with generative tools.

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My own short, currently in production. The American wilderness in the late 1800s: a woman is newly widowed, alone, and has to learn to survive without the person she built her life around. It is a film about grief, rebirth and resilience — and about what someone turns out to be capable of once there is no one left to do it for them. What plays here is a preview, not the finished film.

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