Sverre Pedersen is Head of Production in Deeyah Khan's award winning film production company Fuuse. He has been an activist for human rights and the environment as well as against racism since his early teenage years. In 2005 he was elected President of the Norwegian Film Makers Association where he worked primarily with film politics, collective bargaining, conflict resolution, copyright, international relations and artistic freedom. He has also been on the board of the Federation of European Screen Directors (FERA) from 2015 to 2022. After he left the Norwegian Film Makers Association in 2019, he worked for two years as Campaign and Advocacy Manager for Freemuse.