Janne Lindgren began her career as a still photographer and now works as a cinematographer and director, primarily in documentary filmmaking and music videos. She graduated from the cinematography program at the Norwegian Film School in 2008. During her studies, she collaborated with Swedish directing student Ann Holmgren on the short film The Girl Who Stopped Dreaming.

In 2012, Lindgren joined a small group of filmmakers on an expedition to Svalbard to shoot the short film The Man from the Wilderness of Ice (2012), directed by Henrik M. Dahlsbakken. As a cinematographer, she has also worked on projects including the documentary Roza’s Song (2015), directed by Lowri Rees, and the short film The Green Valley (2018), directed by Ellen Ugelstad.

Lindgren made her directorial debut in 2013 with the short film This Is the World, which was screened at the Norwegian Short Film Festival in 2014. Her documentary From Child to Citizen follows two children as they begin first grade, while The Battle follows the Kampen Janitsjar Orchestra, Norway’s last surviving all-male wind orchestra. Both films received Special Mention awards—first at Nordic Docs in 2016 and later at the Bergen International Film Festival (BIFF) in 2019.