TEDDY BEAR (Denmark)
It is now pretty clear that Vikings made landfall in North America several centuries before Columbus collided with the West Indies. If they had colonized the land, we would all be blonds and speaking Norwegian. Such, my children, are the vagaries of history. Well a new invasion from the Scandinavian nation is about to commence at the Sundance Film Festival, where a strong sampling of films from Norway, Sweden and Denmark are literally making waves.
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Nordic Youth Film Competition
Call for entries for
the Nordic Youth Film Competition at NUFF 2011, for young
directors up to 25 years of age from Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finland,
Faroe Islands, Norway, North-West Russia, Estonia, Lithuania &
Latvia.
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The Norwegian Minister of International Development, Erik Solheim, announced the establishment of a new fund to support film productions in Asia, Africa and Latin America. With a focus on freedom of speech, the fund grants funding to support film productions in countries where resources for such projects are limited. The fund will supplement other European film funds with similar purposes. The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture have committed to grant two million N...
Scandinavia House will host A COOLER PERSPECTIVE: EXPLORING NEW DIRECTIONS IN NORWEGIAN CINEMA, the premier event of the upcoming SubZero° Short Film Fest: Emerging Norwegian Directors Break the Ice in New York, April 8 and 9, at its stunning flagship on Park Avenue at 38th Street. The 2 day program will feature screenings of short films by Lasse Gjertsen, Charlotte Blom and Joachim Trier, on Thursday evening, as well as Jens Lien' celebrated 2006 feature film, The Bothersome Man, preceded by...
Elin Erichsen, Head of Development at the Norwegian Film Institute and Frank Stehling, CEO of PRIMEHOUSE, Berlin, presented the recently developed programme for producers PRIMEXCHANGE Norway-Germany at the Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund (August 20-27, 2009).The programme, initiated by the Norwegian Film Institute and realised by PRIMEHOUSE, targets Norwegian film producers interested in the German market and German producers seeking co-production opportunities in Norway. The tra...
The Nordic Film Days Lübeck is the only film festival in Germany devoted entirely to the cinema of north and north-eastern Europe. Around 130 films seen by more than 27.000 visitors in five days.
TROMSO FESTIVAL IS THE CURTAIN RAISER OF THE EUROPEAN FILMFEST SEASON -- The Tromso film festival, located in extreme Northern Norway, precisely six degrees above the Arctic Circle, is not only the Northernmost accredited film festival in the world, but also the first international film festival on the annual Europen calendar, preceding Gotteburg and Rotterdam which come later in the month. This will be the fifteenth installment of this unusual midwinter film fest under the Northern Lights an...
46. Nordische Filmtage Lübeck / 46th Nordic Film Days LübeckNovember 7, 2004Eight prizes and a number of Special Mentions were awarded at the 46th Nordic Film Days Lübeck, which attracted 18,000 viewers during the three-and-a-half day festival from November 4th to 7th, 2004. The top award, the NDR Promotion Prize endowed with 12,500 euros and bought for broadcast by the NDR television station, went to the black-and-white, very black comedy ILLUSIVE TRACKS / SKENBART, directed by Peter Dalle f...
