Bruce Parramore

Who is Bruce Parramore?

Bruce Parramore is an independent film-maker.

Parramore was born in Geneva. His mother is American and his father is Belgian. He was raised in the Middle East, spending the first fourteen years of his life in Iran and Lebanon.

Parramore has been living in Norway since 1981. As of 2006 he lives and works part of the time in Warsaw and France where he has set up "Par Amore" with his partner and life companion Basia Borkala.

He started his first company Parramore Pictures in 1987 and worked for the next ten years as a freelancer for the Norwegian film industry and the commercial advertising business, as a storyboard artist and visual conceptualizer .

Under his company, he drew the complete storyboards for 21 Scandinavian feature films.

Bruce became a part-time teacher at Westerdals Reklame Skole between 1992 and 1996. He was teaching visual communication and the Art of Film.

In 1994, he was hired as the Chief Visual Artist and Conceptualizer to work, with Stage Director Bentein Baardson and Scenographer Kristian Alsaker, in creating the Opening and Closing Ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games of Lillehammer in 1994. He was engaged for 14 months. The result was 1400 paintings and visual sketches. He then went on working with Beintein Baardson on Ibsen’s Per Gynt TV theater, for NRK Norwegian TV. In 2002 they joined again and worked on the 100th anniversary presentation of Ibsen’s Per Gynt, a show to be performed at the Pyramids of Cheops in Egypt. In 2001 worked as a 2nd Unit Director on the feature film, Aberdeen by Hans Petter Moland, starring Charlotte Rampling, Stellan Skarsgård and Lena Heady.