NUFF 2010
Ole Giæver
Director & screenwriter, Tromsø, Norway
Ole is educated at Nordland Kunst- og Filmskole, Kabelvåg, Norway and Konstfack in Stockholm, Sweden. He made a long row of short films which were screened on national and international film festivals. At the national short film festival in Grimstad he participated with his films The Pledge (2003), Blokk B (2006) and for his short film Tommy (2007) he was awarded with the Talent Prize and Prix UIP Grimstad, an award which gave him the nomination for the European Film Awards. Tommy was also awarded the Tromsøpalme at Tromsø International Film Festival in 2007.
Ole Giævers last film Sommerhuset had cinema premier February 22nd 2008. Currently he is working on the script for his first long fiction film.
Per-Ivar Jensen
Filmmaker & musician, Norway
Per-Ivar Jensen, born in Nordreisa in Troms in 1968, is a musician, an actor and a short film director. He is the former leader of legendary rock band “Per Ivars Orkester”. As a short film director he was the first ever recipient of the Tromsø Palm Award with his film SKÅRUNGEN back in 2002, and he has presented all his later films in the FFN program. For this year we present a retrospective of his short films.
Marianne O Ulrichsen
Actor and director, Oslo, Norway
Born in Lofoten and educated at Nordland Videoverksted and The National Film And Television School in England. She has been actress in films like INSOMNIA (by Erik Skjoldbjærg) and FOLK FLEST BOR I KINA (by Thomas Robsam). Marianne directed a series of short and middle-length films, among those the award winning KOM and SOM MIN SØSTER. Currently she is developing her first feature film.
Magne Pettersen
Director & screenwriter, Sandnessjøen, Norway
Magne is a director who often explores the comical elements of deep tragedy and the sad and melancholic sides of comedy. He has directed ten short films, some of which have been selected for numerous film festivals across the globe and screened at national and international TV channels. His short “Hopp” (2005) won a jury award at Regensburg 2005 and the CANAL+ International Award at Cinema Jove in Valencia 2006, and “Parat” won the award for Best Short Film at Stavanger 2009. This year “SØPLA” (“The Garbage”) will be screened at French CANAL+ as well as being represented at the Cannes Short Film Corner 2010 by international sales agent Premium Films, Paris.
In 2009, Magne joined Zentropa International Norway as feature film director. He is currently writing the script for his feature film debut, “I Could Have Walked Home Blindfolded”, based on the novel by Joachim Førsund, as well as developing other feature projects at Zentropa. Magne is also a commercial film director at Dallas Film in Oslo and runs independent film production company Retriever Film.
Magne graduated from the University of Trondheim NTNU in 2001 with a Cand.mag. (4-year degree) in Film & Media Production.
Tom Schreiber
Director and producer, Köln, Germany
Born in 1969 in Bavaria. He worked as a camera assistant in still photography and documentary film before studying Film at the Academy of Media Arts (KHM) in Cologne. After a year at the Escuela de Cine y Televisión in Cuba he finished his studies with the short film Vita Reducta.
He than worked as an assistant director for various feature films in Spain and Germany.
In 2001 he shot his first feature film Fools (Narren), which had its premiere at the Berlinale 2002. His award winning second feature “Dr Alemán” which was shot entirely in Coloumbia, was successfully screened on more than 30 festivals.
After Co-founding the Web TV “datenstrudel” he founded the production company “58FILME” in 2007 which since than has produced several feature and documentary films. Tom Schreiber lives and works in Cologne.
Ezzaldeen Shalah
Director, Gaza, Palestine
Palestinian director, criticizer and Academic teacher at Palestine University. He has a Master degree in (Treatment of Documentary and fiction films which focus on Al Aqsa Intefada). He is preparing now his Doctoral dissertation in the Palestinian Cinema.
He is working in Media since 15 years. During these years he wrote many scripts and directed film. He made TV reportages and participated in many festivals. He was a jury member in different Arabic Film festivals (Morocco, Algeria, Egypt).
Anniken Hoel
Filmmaker, Tromsø/Berlin
Anniken Hoel is a norwegian filmmaker living in Berlin. She has special interest in political filmmaking mixed with formalistic approaches that does not fit into a preformatted box.
NUFF 2009
Prudence F. Uriri,
Filmmaker, Zimbabwe
Francisca Prudence Uriri is an award-winning Zimbabwean director and producer with numerous productions to her name, including Fatima, Soul In Torment, The Whisper, Recollecting the African Identity a series of 5 x 30 minute episodes (co-produced with SPOR Media Denmark) and Madizela and Samora commissioned by Unesco Ethiopia. Before then, she worked for the Zimbabwe television as an editor and later joined Capricorn Video Unit an independent film/video company as a working board member.
In 2004 she established her own production company in Zimbabwe - Eye for Africa. Prudence now lives in Lillehammer, Norway. She is also a lecturer in the visual anthropology department at the University of Tromsø.
SOME OF HER PRODUCTIONS:
2005 Ida and Ike – fiction, Script writer / Executive Producer
2004: Written 3 x 30 minute fiction scripts, 14 x 3 to 6 minutes scripts
. Director Steps for the Future language versioning of 4 Films, each into Nyanja, Chewa, Bemba
2003: Producer/Director “Madizela and Samora” Aids film Commissioned by Unesco Ethiopia
2002: Director “Life” AIDS film produced by Rooftop Promotions
2001: Day Zero- South Africa: Coordinator of a series on Aids “Steps For the Future”
(36 programs produced in 7 countries)
1999:
Co- Producer/Director "Recollecting the African Identity” a series of 5 x 30 minute episodes (Co-Produced with SPOR Media Denmark)
1995: Producer/Director: "The Whisper”. A Gender and Development documentary.
1993: Co-Producer/Director /Editor "Fatima" a documentary on Gender and Development.
Awards:
1. 1991: Best Editor "Portrait Of A Soldier” Zimbabwe National Journalistic Awards
2. 1993: Best Documentary "Fatima" British Council Award, Gender Category.
Paul Savage
Film director, South Africa
Paul completed an Arts Council of England directing bursary attached to the Midlands Arts Centre (mac) in Birmingham and the New Vic Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent in October 2000. The bursary was extended to include the production The Ramayana at Birmingham Rep and the National Theatre ending in April 2001. In 2003 he was one of two directors representing England at the European Cultural conference held in Russia. After 18 years in England he is now based in South Africa but is still invited back to England to direct. He is co-owner and director of the independent film company Jokes-On-Video.
Per-Ivar Jensen
Filmmaker & musician, Norway
Per-Ivar Jensen, born in Nordreisa in Troms in 1968, is a musician, an actor and a short film director. He is the former leader of legendary rock band “Per Ivars Orkester”. As a short film director he was the first ever recipient of the Tromsø Palm Award with his film SKÅRUNGEN back in 2002, and he has presented all his later films in the FFN program. For this year we present a retrospective of his short films.
Fanta Régina Nacro
Film director, Burkina Faso
One of only a handful of female African filmmakers, Nacro studied at the INAFEC film school
in the Burkina Faso capital, Ouagadougo, and earned a master’s degree from the Sorbonne in
Paris. In a career spanning more than 20 years, she’s depicted Africa’s traditions and harsh
realities, but she often turns her lens with comic joy on issues of sexuality, gender relations,
and modernity. In 1993 she founded her own production company, Les Films du Défi, whose
mission is to create, produce, and distribute films, support new filmmakers, and raise awareness
of African films. She has won two dozen awards for her work in festivals around the
world, from Cannes to San Francisco.
Filmography
1991 Un Certain Matin (15 minutes)
1993 L'Ecole au coeur de la vie (13 minutes)
1995 Puk Nini (32 minutes)
1997 Femmes capables (23 minutes)
1997 La Tortue du Monde (23 minutes)
1998 Le Truc de Konaté (33 minutes)
1999 Florence Barrigha (26 minutes)
2000 Relou (5 minutes)
2000 Laafi Bala (26 minutes)
2001 La bague aux doigt (5 minutes)
2001 Une volonté de fer (5 minutes)
2001 La voix de la raison (5 minutes)
2001 Bintou (31 minutes)
2002 En parler ça aide (17 minutes)
2003 Vivre positivement (42 minutes)
2004 La Nuit de la Verité (Night of Truth, 100 minutes)
Teemour D. Mambety
Filmmaker, Senegal
Primarily a musician, author of several album recordings and movie soundtracks since 1996, Teemour D. Mambety co-founded with Djibril D. Mambety a film production and distribution company named Maag Daan. Ever since, driven by a strong belief in the use of digital technology to reach professional autonomy, he has developed activities in all fields of film making, multimedia production and consulting.
NUFF 2008
Asif Kapadia
Writer / Director, London, UK
Writer / Director Asif Kapadia was born in Hackney, London. He originally studied graphic design before his interest in filmmaking led to him to filmschool. He has directed short films, commercials and television.\
Kapadia’s graduate short film THE SHEEP THIEF made at the Royal College of Art won the 2nd Prize in the Cinefoundation Section at the Cannes Film Festival 1998 & the Grand Prix at the European Short Film Festival amongst many other awards.
Kapadia’s first feature THE WARRIOR was shot in Rajasthan, India and won the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film & the Award for the Most Promising Newcomer at the 2002 BAFTAs. He also won the London Film Festival’s Sutherland Trophy for the Most Original & Imaginative First Feature, the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer & was Nominated for the European Discovery Fassbinder Award at the 2002 European Film Awards.
His new film FAR NORTH premiered at the Venice Film Festival, stars Michelle Yeoh, Sean Bean and Michelle Krusiec and was shot on the archipelago of Svalbard and in the High Arctic in Norway.
Kapadia is presently writing and developing his fourth feature film, he lives in North London with his wife and son.
Angeliki Antoniou
Director, Athens/Berlin, Greece/Germany
Born in Athens. She studied Architecture, in which she holds a degree in Greece and film direction at the DFFB (German Film and Television Academy in Berlin). She works as scriptwriter and director in Greece and in Germany. In 2006 she taught film direction at the Film School of University in Thessaloniki. She lives in Athens and in Berlin. She has directed feature films, short films and documentaries. Her films have been awarded in national and international festivals.
FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION)
* 1987 PERSEPHONE, short, 20' - Award in Greek Short Film Festival in Drama, 1987
* 1989 GEFANGENE DES MEERES (PRISONERS OF THE SEA), documentary, 80'
* 1990 DAS GLÜCK SEI UNBEWEGLICHKEIT, screenplay, feature film, 60', directed by Kirsten Johannsen
* 1992 DONUSA, feature film, 87' (Germany-Switzerland-Greece) - Festival Locarno 1992 (Official Competition): A' Prix de la Jeunesse - Thessaloniki International Film Festival 1992 (Official Competition): Best Supporting Actor
* 1996 TÄNZE DER NACHT (DANCES OF THE NIGHT), documentary, 60'
* 1997 VERSPIELTE NÄCHTE (NIGHTS GAMBLED AWAY), feature film, 87' (Germany-Greece) - Rated by the German Movie Association as "specially valuable" - Festival Hof 1997: Award for Best Set Design - 38th Thessaloniki International Film Festival 1997, 4 Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Script and Best Actress Award (for Jasmin Tabatabai)
* 1999 HEIMLICHER TANZ (SECRET DANCE), TV movie, 88'
* 2000 ALLEIN UNTER MÄNNERN (ALONE AMONG MEN), TV movie, 85'
* 2001 MESSERSCHARF (SHARP LIKE A KNIFE), TV movie, 88'
* 2006 EDUART, feature film, 105' (Greece-Germany) - 47th Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2006, 9 State Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Set Design, Best Music, Best Sound, Best Editing, Best Costumes, Best Make-up - 47th Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2006: FIPRESCI Award for Best Greek Film and ETEKT Award (The Greek Union of Film Television and Audiovisual Technicians) - 29th Montpellier International Mediterranean Film Festival, 2007: Golden Antigone (Antigone d'or de la Ville et de l'Agglomération de Montpellier), Special mention by the Young People's Award (CMCAS)
Tanja Meding
Producer, New York, USA
In 1996, Tanja started working in the film industry in her native Germany with the Munich-Berlin based media company TiMe. From 1998 until 2003 she was the associate producer for a world-traveled short feature collection at Ziegler Film, Berlin, where she worked with well known filmmakers from around the world. Her move into the documentary world started when she worked as the production manager on a 2-part TV documentary about the German politician Willy Brandt, directed by Peter Merseburger and aired on ARTE and ARD in Germany. Since moving to New York in 2003, Tanja Meding has worked as a producer for Maysles Films as well as an independent producer and consultant.
Selected filmography
SALLY GROSS - THE PLEASURE OF STILLNESS (producer) © 2007, a film by Albert Maysles and Kristen Nutile, DV, color, 56 mins
ALBERT MAYSLES TALKS ABOUT MARLON BRANDO (producer) © 2007, a film by Kristen Nutile, DV, color and b&w, 15 mins
LL (associate producer) © 2007, a film by Amos Kollek, HD, color, 90 mins
THE GATES (associate prodcuer) © 2007, a film by Albert and David Maysles and Antonio
Ferrera, HD, color, 95 mins
SEEING SALLY - A PSYCHIC'S TALE (associate producer) © 2007, a film by Peter Goodman, DV, color, 86 mins
THE BEALES OF GREY GARDENS (producer) © 2006, a film by David and Albert Maysles, 16mm, color, 90 mins
MAYSLES FILMS CHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE (producer) © 2005, a film by Maysles Films, color, 30 mins
HAND-HELD AND FROM THE HEART (producer) © 2004, a film trailer by Albert Maysles and Nell Cox, DV, color, 10 mins
WILLY BRANDT - EINE JAHRUNDERTGESTALT (production manager) © 2003, a film by Peter Merseburger, DigiBeta, color, 90 mins
THE GALLERY (associate producer) © 2003, a film by Jos Stelling, 16mm, color, 30mins
AN EROTIC TALE (associate producer) © 2003, a film by Dito Tsintsadze, 16 mm, color, 30 mins
PORN.COM (associate producer) © 2002, a film by Bob Rafelson, DV, color, 30 mins
ANGELA (associate producer) © 2000, a film by Amos Kollek, 35mm, color, 30 mins
KIMONO (associate producer) © 2000, a film by Hal Hartley, 35mm, color, 30 mins
ON TOP DOWN UNDER (associate producer) © 2000, a film by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, 35mm, color, 30 mins
POWERS (associate producer) © 2000, a film by Petr Zelenka, 35mm, color, 30 mins
CAN I BE YOUR BRATWURST, PLEASE (associate producer) © 1999, a film by Rosa von
Praunheim, 35mm, color, 30 mins
Christer Engberg
Film & theatre director and musician, Luleå, Sweden
Born 1957, started as musican i early 70s to play in several rockbands, ended up in a music -colektive in 1973 ” Anton Swedbergs Swängjäng ”where he started to get interested in acting and directing. Worked from 1978 as a teatcher in music and drama. Started a project for young people who cold not cope with thier school situation and instead become a part of his theatre ensemble. ” Rosteriet” . Later on the diarys from that period become the film ”wild angel”
He’s still active as a musican playing Irish folkmusic.
Films
Wild angel 1996 Director, script, music
(Vildängel) featurefilm
Yearning for a life 1999 Director, script, music
(Lusten till ett liv) featurefilm
Poor Floyd 2000 Director, Producer
(Stackars Floyd) shortfilm
Round trip 2003 Director
(Tur och retur) shortfilm
Awards
Vildängel
Young people award for best film , Frankfurt 1997
Best Film, Nordische filmtage, Lübeck 1997
Best Film, Castello d’oro, Bellinzona, Switzerland 1998
Best directing Anapa filmfestival Russia 2002
Lusten till ett liv
Göteborgspostens Nordiska filmpris, Göteborgs Filmfestival 1999
Acting , Music-composing in films and tv
Knock out by Agneta Fagerström Olsson, Music
Möbelhandlarens dotter Tv-series by John O Olsson , Acting
Järnets Änglar by Agneta Fagerström Olsson , Acting and Music
Theatre plays
(small selection of the last teen years)
Silverfisken Norrbottensteatern 1995
Director, lyrics and music
( played in England and Dramaten Stockholm)
Overhead Västerbottensteatern 1997
Director
Nattropare Wasamuseet Stockholm 1998
Director
Fyllhunden Norrbottensteatern 1999
Director
Ondskan Norrbottensteatern 2000
Director
Först föds man ju Västerbottensteatern 2001
Director
Jizzlan Norrbottensmusiken 2002
Director, script
Möss och människor Västerbottensteatern 2005
Director
Sitta kvar Teater Västernorrland 2006
Director
Maratondansen Teater Västernorrland 2006
Director
Tokfursten Teater I Jönköping 2007
Director
Djävla karl Västerbottensteatern 2008-04-09
Director
Ole Giæver
Director & screenwriter, Tromsø, Norway
Ole is educated at Nordland Kunst- og Filmskole, Kabelvåg, Norway and Konstfack in Stockholm, Sweden. He made a long row of short films which were screened on national and international film festivals. At the national short film festival in Grimstad he participated with his films The Pledge (2003), Blokk B (2006) and for his short film Tommy (2007) he was awarded with the Talent Prize and Prix UIP Grimstad, an award which gave him the nomination for the European Film Awards. Tommy was also awarded the Tromsøpalme at Tromsø International Film Festival in 2007.
Ole Giævers last film Sommerhuset had cinema premier February 22nd 2008. Currently he is working on the script for his first long fiction film.
Alexander Sunyaev
Leader documentary workshop
Sanya (Alexander) Sunyaev. Born in Murmansk. Education – lawyer in criminal sphere. Credo - free-thinker. In February 2007 he joined Murmansk regional TV company “TV-21”. Two years in a row (2007 and 2008) he was a host for a beauty contest “Beauty of Polar North” – regional stage of a Russian contest «Miss Russia». Sanya is author of the TV-news series «Cities of Murmansk region». Constant TV host of everyday news about film, book and music releases.
Bojan Vuletic
Leader Sound-design film music workshop
Bojan Vuletic is not only a performing musician and composer but also a player in the music industry. His passion for music provides him with endless energy resources.
Inspired by a long hitch-hike through the galaxy (fueled by a diploma in astrophysics) the name of the company ignoring gravity music perfectly describes the essence of the music.
During his studies in Jazzguitar and Composition (in Arnhem, Netherlands) he met and played with a lot of musicians in several countries.
Continuous performance led to the idea of building up a platform for outstanding music, ignoring gravity music, connecting great artists with new music. It is the place where he wants musical dreams to come true.
NUFF 2007
Linda Hattendorff
Director/editor, New York, USA
Linda Hattendorf's documentary, "The Cats of Mirikitani" won the Audience Award at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival, as well as the Norwegian Peace Film Award at Tromsø International Film Festival 2007 and many other prizes in festivals worldwide. Her editing work has aired on PBS, A&E, and The Sundance Channel as well as in theatrical venues and many festivals. She edited the award-winning documentary 7th Street, Christina Lundberg's On the Road Home: A Spiritual Journey Guided by Remarkable Women, Nancy Recant's Jin Shin Jyutu, and Danny Schechter’s In Debt We Trust. She was Associate Editor on Frontline's Emmy-winning season premiere The Choice '96 and Barbara Kopple's Bearing Witness, Contributing Editor on POV’s American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawaii, a cameraperson on William Greaves' Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take 2 1/2, and a researcher for the Ken Burns series The West. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and holds degrees in Literature, Art History, and Media Studies.
(credit: Bob Sacha)
Paolo Davanzo & Lisa Marr
Filmmakers, Los Angeles, USA
Paolo Davanzo is an Associate Professor in the Film & Video Department of College of the Canyons with extensive experience in facilitating youth and community filmmaking programs, Paolo holds a BA Degree in Visual Arts & Political Science from UC San Diego and a Masters Degree in Film from Humboldt State University. He is the founder of the Human Rights Film Festival, the EPFC Youth Film Festival and the Polyester Prince Road Show. In June 2005, Paolo was Artist In Residence at the Triskell Art Center in Cork, Ireland, where he developed short film projects with local at-risk youth and adult African asylum-seekers.
Lisa is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and musician. In 2005, she developed and coordinated the City of Angels Youth Documentary Project and Look + Listen Youth Film Project for EPFC. She has a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia.
Svein Andersen
Documentary filmmaker, Målselv, Norway
Svein Andersen is the director of FilmCamp and has over 30 years of experience in professional film production on regional, national, and international levels. Since 1975 he has developed himself as a filmmaker and has explored directing, producing, cinematography, and screenplay. His experience in working with approximately 100 film productions in numerous genres – including short film, documentary, commercial, experimental film, music video, TV drama, and feature film – gives him a comprehensive and well-rounded background.
Well-practiced in the field of film, Svein Andersen considers himself first and foremost a documentary film maker. He has both directed and done cinematography on a number of documentary films that have been shown at film festivals, in movie theaters, and on television – both at home and abroad. Among the themes of his documentaries are minorities and outsider-groups, democratic challenges, ethic dilemmas, and the relationship between people and nature. Svein has pedagogical experience in the field of film and has led many film courses and seminars. He has also been selected for various film panels, boards, committees, and juries. Additionally, Svein has been active for many years in film-politics on regional and national fronts. During his 30 years in the business he has fought for fair proportioning of the national film budget and has been very active in the struggle for support for North Norwegian short- and documentary films through the North Norwegian Film Forum and the North Norwegian Film Center. During the last few years he has spent much of his time establishing FilmCamp and in so doing has helped to secure a solid base for regional (and national) film production and TV drama production in North Norway. His goal is to create a sustainable, imaginative, vital, and dynamic film industry of international caliber in the Northern region.
Susanne Stranddorf
Film producer, Copenhagen, Denmark
Susanne Stranddorf received her education in English and film and TV studies at Aarhus University in 2003. She has written and produced a number of short films in relation to her film education in Super8, and has been the administrator and production-leader on many theater productions.
Between 2004 and 2005 she was employed as the director of media and communication at an IT firm. After a short break from the film industry, Susanne returned to the world of cinema in 2005 and directed her first feature film. Since then, she has worked as production leader, production assistant, and statist-coordinator on different feature films in addition to being a producer at Station Next - a film school for young people - from 2005 to 2006. Susanne also completed her producer education from Filmproducer.DK in January, 2007.
Matthias GlasnerFilm director, Berlin, Germany
Born in Hamburg, he worked at Hamburg Opera House and as a film projectionist. In 1993 Glasner, who was a musician in the band “homesweethome”, founded the Hamburg-based company Jack Film and Music Production. A year later, he made his feature film debut, “Die Mediocren”, which was shown in the Panorama section of the Berlinale in 1995. In 1996 he and Jørgen Vogel founded the production company Schwarzweiss Filmproduktion. Glasner lives in Berlin. In Norway he was currently in the cinemas his fiction film “Der freie Wille” (The Free Will).
NUFF 2006
Jan Cvitkovic
Director, Slovenia
Jan Cvitkovic , archaeologist, actor, writer and director -almost out of curiosity-, is one of the most promising filmmakers in Slovenia. His first feature film, Bread and Milk, presented at the Venice International Film Festival in 2001, received the Golden Lion of the Future. Now Cvitkovic is back with "Gravehopping" (o.t. Odgrobadogroba), a Slovenian-Croatian film. The film received the Altadis - New Directors Award in the 53rd San Sebastian International Film Festival.
Susanna Helke
Filmmaker from Finland
Born 1967 in Tampere
Education:
- Doctoral dissertation in the Film and TV Department of the University of Art and Design Helsinki will be published with the title “A Trace of Nanook: Cinematic Methods Intertwining Documentary and Fictional Styles” in March 2006.
- San Francisco State University, Cinema Department, Fall Semester, 1999.
- University of Art and Design Helsinki, Master of Arts in New Media 1997.
- University of Art and Design Helsinki, Master of Arts in Photography 1996.
- Tampere University Department of Journalism and Mass Communication 1992 - 1993.
Working as filmmaker and film teacher in Helsinki
more info here...
Daniel Alegi
Filmmaker, Karlstad, Sweden/USA/Italy
Daniel Alegi is a local-global filmmaker. He was raised in Italy, and recently moved to Sweden after 9 years in the USA. He is fluent in the language of cinema.
Daniel makes mostly short films, but has collaborated on a number of different types of larger scale projects, including features, documentaries, TV, theater, internet media. He has also written scripts and a film book on "ejecting from Hollywood".
In 2001 Daniel created CINEMAHEAD, to share his filmmaking know-how and to support the producing and completion of independent film work. To spread the knowhow Cinemahead began to offer intensive filmmaking workshops for young filmmakers, first in the USA, then in Scandinavia and Europe.
Aslaug Holm
Director and camera, Oslo, Norway
Aslaug Holm is one of Norway's most frequented camera women and directors for documentaries. She directed more then 10 films and worked at the camera in about 40 productions since 1990, many of them were rewarded.
She worked as director of photography and editor at Norway's biggest documentary success of all time, "Cool & Crazy" (2001) and got the award of the Norwegian Film Assosiation for this work.
Her newest work as a director is the film "The Rich Country" which is currently at the Norwegian cinemas. This film got the FIPRESCI-prize at the Tromsø International Film Festival 2006.
Aslaug is a popular lecturer on documentary filming.
Since 1992 she is a partner the production company Fenris Film.
Nisse Koltze
Film producer from Denmark
Born 1970. Living in Copenhagen. MA in film from University of Copenhagen.
Producer and coproducer of several Danish and international documentary film, among others the critic praised “Doctor Dance” and prizewinning “Hårde Drenge Danser Ikke”.
For many years a teacher of the craftsmanship of filmmaking on different levels, locations and occasions; University of Copenhagen – technical supervisor; Danmarks Radio – instructor of the teaching programme “Den billedskabte virkelighed”; Borups Højskole – teacher of journalism, film production and film analysis, theory and history.
Currently producer at Station Next, a unique film school for young people located in the middle of Filmbyen in Copenhagen. I am focusing on structure and story in my work and in my teaching.
NUFF 2005
Jörg Buttgereit
Filmmaker, Berlin, Germany
Jørg Buttgereit was born in 1963 in Berlin. He works as a radio play director for WDR and DEUTSCHLANDRADIO ("Sexy Sushi", "Ed Gein Superstar", "Frankenstein in Hiroshima"). His independent produced Arthouse Horror Films ("Nekromantik", "Nekromantik 2", "Schramm", "Der Todesking") became cult films in America and Japan. His awarded Godzilla-documentary "Die Monsterinsel" was shown 2002 on TV. In addition Buttgereit made Music-videos for different bands. He writes film critics on regular basis for TIP-Magazin, epd-FILM, Splatting Image, Fluter.de and others. Once a month he DJs Retro-Elektro-Disco at Berlins club scène. As a guest lecturer he makes recitals at Art and Film schools.
Daniel Alegi
Filmmaker, Karlstad, Sweden
Daniel Alegi is a local-global filmmaker. He was raised in Italy, and recently moved to Sweden after 9 years in the USA. He is fluent in the language of cinema.
Daniel makes mostly short films, but has collaborated on a number of different types of larger scale projects, including features, documentaries, TV, theater, internet media. He has also written scripts and a film book on "ejecting from Hollywood".
In 2001 Daniel created CINEMAHEAD, to share his filmmaking know-how and to support the producing and completion of independent film work. To spread the knowhow Cinemahead began to offer intensive filmmaking workshops for young filmmakers, first in the USA, then in Scandinavia and Europe.
Who is the prototypical Cinemahead-NUFF workhsop participant? Someone who is passionate about images, or storytelling, or both. A filmmaker, imagemaker or writer who is facing the BIG dilemma: should I stop and get a day job like mommy says? Or should I go on, and pursue a vision yet unclear, but forceful within me?
Yes, images and opportunities appear to be everywhere, and the choice is not easy. What is good, what is worth learning from, or even imitating? Is it what sells? Is that what is good? How can I find out what I am worth, as a growing digital artist?
It is possible to engage in issues of identity, self-confidence, security, even politics, in one-week of intensive, individual and collective filmmaking? YES.
Cinemahead workshops empower young voices to find their way, their voice, their vision. To make a workshop film is to learn to speak a new language: your own unique, unlimited powerful, revolutionary voice. And to link to others in that way. To find your way.
Daniel’s full list of awards, accomplishments, bio-info etc can be found both in the bio below and on the www.cinemahead.com website.
Sara Broos
Filmmaker, Karlstad, Sweden
She studied Literature, Film theory, Journalism and Script writing.
She writes and works with shortfilm and videoart. Two years ago she moved to an old white house in Värmland, the Swedish countryside.
She is teaching fulltime at a script writing course and also works in her own studio on projects with film, sound, text and photography.
Her small production company Alma Film produce shortfilm, experimental film, music videos, documentaries and sound art. She is working together with other artists and friends from all around the world.
She regularly organises workshops, culture festivals and exhibitions at Alma Löv Museum. The last 6 years she ´s been working at international art workshops for young people organised by Council of Europe and also filmworkshops in the Nordic countries.
What is most important in a workshop like this ? To follow your intuition and forget about the rules, to trust yourself and dive into the unknown. To dare, to not be afraid to fail. To work intense in a creative process . To share a little piece of your soul with others and in your work. To create something personal that matters to you. To laugh and cry. To find your way, to get lost. To feel. To try to recognize even what you haven´t seen before. To look outside. To look inside. Trying to see.
School where she works - www.brobygrafiska.sunne.se
Museum where she works www.fly.to/almalov
"Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspecive, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure od perception. How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of "Green"? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye? How aware of heat waves can that eye be? Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumarable graduations of color. Imagine a world before the beginning was the word. " ( ur "Metaphors on Vision" av Stan Brakhage).
NUFF 2004
Jean Bitar
Filmmaker and produser, Helsinki, Finland
He is a naturalized Finn. He grew up and had his primary and secondary education in Lebanon.. He left Lebanon in 1970 in order to study Cinema in Moscow. In 1977 was graduate with Master of Arts degree from the All Union State Institute Of Cinematography in Moscow specializing in Feature and TV direction. In 1978 emigrated to Finland Where he established his base of operation. He has written and directed TV plays, documentaries, for the Finnish Broadcasting Company.
Torleif Hoppe
Script writer, Copenhagen, Denmark
Thorleif is a graduated scriptwriter from The Danish Film School, and has co-written and instructed famous series like "The Hotel" and "Nikolaj and Julie". (Earlier he has also promoted and toured with the Danish band D-A-D). At the moment Hoppe is working on a feature film script for Nordic Film.
Ingebjørg Torgersen
Filmmaker and artist, Oslo, Norway
Torgersen has worked with film and television since 1985 and graduated from The Danish Film School in 1991. Since then she has made several short films and radio plays for children. For three years she was short film advisor at the Norwegian Film Institute and she has later worked as artistic advisor for the national TV channel NRK in Norway.
Gorki Glaser-Müller
Filmmaker, Göteborg, Sweden
Glaser-Müller lives in Göteborg and is originally from Chile. He is an actor and has studied film directing at the Göteborg University School of Photography and Film since 2001. As actor he has participated in a large number of films and theatre plays. His short film "The Egg" from 2003 won several awards at the student filmfest in Santiago, Chile.
Börkur Gunnarsson
Filmmaker, Iceland
Gunnarsson comes from Iceland and has written theatre plays, poetry- and short story collections. He has studied philosophy in Iceland and Berlin. In 2002 he finished his education as film director at FAMU in Praha, where he also lives today. His last film "Bitter Coffee" got much attention at the cinemas in several European countries.
NUFF 2003
Jim Stark
Film produser, New York, USA
Jim Stark - film producer and script writer is living in USA and Iceland. His known by his work with the early Jim Jarmush films and with Fredrik Thor Fredriksen i "Cold Fever". Accually he is promoting his new film "Faktotum" directed by Bent Hammer. Jim is still working with Film House Tvibit as a poduction consult at the project "Filmfangst".
Arto Koskinen
Filmmaker, Helsinki, Finland
Directed his først feature film in 1992. He made many short films. Since then he has made numerous short films focusing on social issues; he has also made one film for children, "AVARUU - DEN MUSTA KIVI", about a mysterious black stone from outer space.
Linda Sternö
Filmmaker, Göteborg, Sweden
"In my films I want stories and actors that allow the characters to be humans, with as many sides and complexities that most of us have. People on film should be allowed to live, surprise their surroundings and have as much of an intellectual and emotional width as people in real life."
Benedicte Maria Orvung
Filmmaker, Oslo, Norway
She works mainly with documentaries. Benedicte has a strong presence in all her films and captures important expressions and details. She has made 8 films. Her most famous is her latest two ”Store Lille Trude Mette” and ”Disa flytter til Japan” which is now showing at cinemas across Norway. Her films have been awarded both in Norway and abroad.
Mikkel Serup
Filmmaker, Copenhagen, Denmark
Graduated from the European Film College in Ebeltoft in 1994 and has since then made a handful no-budget short films in Århus. Hollywood productions in Danish and without the money, with titles like ”Terror at the Kung-Fu Disco” and ”Lord Evil vs. The Universe”. He has also made a portrait of the 85 year old danish director Ib Melchoir. Throughout his career he has worked as a multimedia designer, graphic artist and a rap artist and released the cd ”Testosteron” in 2000, under the name Kid Rodriguez on Sony Music Denmark. He entered the Danish Filmschools in 1999 focusing on directing. Mikkel has just finished a commercial and infofilm about Copenhagen International Film Festival.