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| Green Screen 2011 - Neil Young & Linda Berggren |
The 9th NUFF festival-review by Neil Young
“To me the great hope”, Francis Ford Coppola famously said some 20 years ago, “is that… suddenly one day some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart, and you know, and make a beautiful film with her father’s little camcorder and for once this whole professionalism about movies will be destroyed forever and it will become an art form.”
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An eventful and exciting 9th edition of NUFF has been successfully accomplished.
Young filmmakers from all over the world participated in five workshop groups with professional filmmakers as workshop leaders and made five films in one week.
26 films compited in the Nordic youth film competition and 13 in the international competition on five prizes.
And the winner is...
A couple of years ago on my first visit to Tromsø, I was inspired by what I saw and experienced. During this visit I had the opportunity to dine with the deputy major, spend time with the South African ambassador, play team building games with politicians, meet with the youth and watch films at NUFF. All these diverse people came together came together under the banner of NUFF. I saw that none of these people diminished during there interaction. Because when diversity in truly embraced reconciliation takes place.
So NUFF in a nutshell is an idea that brings together individuals from diverse culture and believes to celebrate film and allows them to showcase their uniqueness without being intimidated.
This is the very model that the world should adopt, if we are to reconcile those that are and will be separated by culture and believe in time to come.
The need to bring people together is on the increase, so we have to develop ideas that allow those who gather around them to celebrate who they are without having to compromise who they are. NUFF is such an idea; even in my own country it is becoming more and more difficult to bring people together. Yes, we united during the world cup but events like this brings people together only for a moment. So, we are running out of events that will keep people together. Simply because people are no longer inspired and the inspiration of our country (Nelson Mandela) is dying.
Its important for the next generation of Africans to be the inspiration and film is a very power tool, which has the ability to inspire. Because our memories are photographic, we hold images longer then words. So we should use this medium to inspire the next generation to create a better society. But very importantly, we should continue gathering around the idea of NUFF, so that we might be inspired and leave inspired. The idea (NUFF) celebrates diversity of people and culture and reconciliation is truly found in this principle.
Well done NUFF.
Jerome Booysen, SUFF, South Africa
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| NUFF 2011 - Gaza workshop group |
For the third time NUFF will be present in Gaza. The cameraman, director and producer Mustafa Bakeer from Rafah will be leading a NUFF film workshop for young filmmakers in Gaza.
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Seminar with German star producer
Tromsø's two international film festivals continue their collaboration. At NUFF 2011 TIFF arranges a documentary film seminar with the highly recognized film producer Peter Rommel.
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| BYFA - Kick Off workshop in Murmansk |
BYFA is a collaboration-project between NUFF/TVIBIT in Tromsø, Norway and the Regional Fund – Youth House in Murmansk, Russia. The main purpose is to develop youth film activities in the entire Barents region is aiming to organize a informal film-education for young people in the region.
The idea grew through long collaboration NUFF has with the youth film environment in Murmansk. Which led to the annual youth film festival 0.1 Megapixel in Murmansk in 2008. This work concluded in goal to focus on the entire region to ensure the competence young filmmakers have reached the work at NUFF and 0.1 Megapixel. BYFA is the opportunity!
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As a new online offer we provide workshop films and documentaries. You can find a complete list of films with background information at our archive. Find the films from 2003 until today in high quality.
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The new NUFF-DVD is available!
Find all the winner films, the workshop film, the opening films, the documentaries and lots of pictures from the 8th annual Nordic Youth Film Festival on the new DVD which can be ordered right now.
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Les en kort oppsummering her...
Watch the NUFF 2010 results online. All films made during the workshops are now online at our youtube profile at
www.youtube.com/youthcinema
Age group <18
Sälsynt Öde
by Jacob Danell, Sweden
The film has a simple idea, poetic. The story has strong symbolic meaning, shown with easy and simple way. Camera movement, nice music, film does show the simple story and method of narration was chosen in a smart way.
Age group 18 - 20
Nakenlekar
by Victor Danell, Sweden
In this film the authors tried to show that human behavior and human nature is something to laugh about. It turned out as fun, dynamic, with the permissible share of obscenities. During few minutes we’ve been told a story about sensitive topic, which people usually do not joking about. This movie makes us laugh and think about it. Without sacrificing the content, with one camera angle we get the whole story.
Age group 21 - 25
Tätt Intill
by
Josèphine Adams
This is the film about growing up. With god acting, editing, sound design filmmakers manage to keep the red line of the story.
The best Nordic youth film 8000,-
Draken
by Nils Moström
The best Nordic film is a film that is outstanding through unity of content and form. With elements of silent film, filmmakers managed to build the story on childhood when joy and exploring were most important things in a life.
At the international competition
by Pauline Awuor Mango & Vinnick Kemuma
The winning film describes the situation of a young boy who is forced to take on adult responsibilities much too soon, possibly losing his only chance to have a real childhood. the filmmakers show rather than tell us how the world looks from his point of view, letting the unobtrusive camera follow his daily routine. the subtle but effective use of music offers a hint of optimism in an apparently hopeless world.
Watch the NUFF opening, Green Screen and the NUFF closing ceremony live
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It’s not a secret that the blockade in the Middle East prevents vital resources like water, food and medicines going to the needy people in Palestine. But it is perhaps not as general known that normal people who are travelling out of the area are denied a visa.
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 For the second time NUFF gives youth in Gaza a chance to participate in this international youth film festival. Gaza, twin city to Tromsø, has been under the Israeli siege since 2007, which prevents the Palestinian youth to participate at NUFF in Tromsø.
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Augustin Rebetez, exhibition at Kurant, Tromsø, June 5th – 13th 2010
Opening Saturday 5th 20:30h at Kurant visningsrom, Søndre Tollbodgate 17
Daily open from 13 :00 - 17:00
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The first workshop leader for NUFF 2010 is decided!
Ole Giæver, director & screen writer from Tromsø, Norway will attend NUFF and lead one of the groups.
Deadline for workshop entry is Mai 1st!
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Ruger du på en god idé til en dokumentarfilm? Vil du lage filmen din med hjelp fra en profesjonell dokumentarfilmskaper? Høres premiere på NUFF@TIFF 2011 fristende ut? Er du mellom 15 og 25 år og har tilknytning til Nordland, Troms eller Finnmark? Send inn din ide til Dokfilmfangst.
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We have now opened the entries for the Official Nordic Youth Film Competition in the festival, aimed for directors up to 25 years of age fromSweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Faroe Islands, Norway, North-West Russia, Estonia, Lithuania & Latvia.
We are inviting you to submit your works and would be much praised to count with your participation.
The Nordic Youth Film festival - NUFF, is now one of the most important youth film events in the Nordic countries.
NUFF is a great opportunity and an excellent forum for the new Filmmakers, an excellent place for who wishes to establish himself in this industry.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
Entry form for the Nordic competition
WE DO NOT CHARGE ENTRY FEE
Congratulations to the winners...
Nordisk Ungdoms Filmfestival (NUFF) utlyser en filmidékonkurranse for ungdom den 20. oktober 2009. Konkurransen skal markere starten på NUFF sitt fokus på Nord-Norge under NUFF 2010.
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It’s not a secret that the blockade in the Middle East prevents vital resources like water, food and medicines going to the needy people in Palestine. But it is perhaps not as general known that normal people who are travelling out of the area are denied a visa.
The Egyptian government denies generally visa to Palestinians from Gaza and the Norwegian Embassy denies because they don’t have a visa for Egypt in the fear of them not having a place to sending them back to. However we don’t see this as a huge problem, because for the last 7 years, people have always been travelling from the Middle East to participate at our festival.
This is an outrageous act and we are very sorry for the Palestinian/Egyptian filmmaker. We were looking forward to meet and work with him, as we are with any of the international filmmakers, and participants.
This is a film that’s remarkable well done; we get to know the smuggler tunnel-diggers up close. But fortunately the film from Egypt/Palestine A Ticket to Asrael is still going to be screened as planned under the festival.
The boarding of the international peace ships has created a lot of uproar in Tromsø, and in the rest of the world as well! These ships were to break the blockade of Gaza. The ships were loaded with; food, medicines, water, school books and many other important materials that the people of Gaza need to survive. The boarding happened in international waters, and this is a clear violation of international law. We want this post to show our disgust against the Israel Military actions.
We have a strong collaboration with film groups in Gaza, and we will keep on working with them as long as the Israel Government allows this.
June 3rd, to days before the festivals starts with its international film workshops, NUFF will present a foretaste of the program in Oslo at Mediefabrikken.
Two young filmmakers from Senegal, Kady Diedhiou and Elhadj Ass Bamba Sene, will present their films. Both filmmakers will be participating at NUFF 2010 from June 5th to 13th in Tromsø.
”Têtu Clandestin” (Jackal Clandestin) is a short animation made by Elhadj Ass Bamba Sene. The film tells the story of the young jackal Clandestin who dreams of a live in Europe. When he risks the journey he experiences a brutal and unknown reality.
”Sounay (female circumcision)” is a short fiction made by Kady Diedhiou and tells the story of the young woman Jama who was traumatises by her childhood experience of the traditional circumcision.
Both young filmmakers are working with RIAC a youth cultural organisation in suburbs of Dakar in Senegal.
This year NUFF has a group of young journalists working on reprotages about all happeings at NUFF.
check it out here... or here...
Watch NUFF films for the period of the festival here... and here...
Nordic Youth Film Festival anounce the jury for the nordic youth film competition. The three jury members from Sweden, Germany and Ausrtria will select four awards: For the best film in its age-group and the Best Nordic Youth Film Award.
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The deadline for films at NUFF 2009 is over! For the Nordic competition we received over 110 submissions and for the international program about 60. Our selection committee will work hard with the final selection of the programs.
There’re still places vacant for the NUFF-workshops.
NUFF has two new coordinators to spread information and organizing contacts to more young filmmakers in the world.
Nehal Afana from Gaza, Palestine, has been NUFF workshop participant already in 2006 and worked in 2008 for half a year as trainee at the youth culture house TVIBIT in Tromsø. Currently she is based in Dubai and will be the coordinator for all Arabic speaking countries.
Lionel Adonis from Cape Town, South Africa, has been working for NUFF as trainee in three month last year. He was responsible for festival-coordination and all guests under NUFF 2008.
Feel free to contact them for all kind of requests on NUFF here…
From January 12th to 17th a group of young filmmakers from Murmansk/Russia, Rovaniemi/Finland, Luleå/Sweden, Tromsø/Norway and young musicians from Tromsø met during the Tromsø International Film Festival (TIFF) to produce a short film and its music and sound. The project was initiated and arranged by the Nordic Youth Film Festival (NUFF).
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Call for entries!
From now on you can submit your film to the Nordic Youth Film competition or to the international NUFF program or your self as participant to the NUFF 2009 film workshops.
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Christmas 2008: Since days the Israeli army is bombing Gaza! There is no to way to escape the horror. Among them our friends from the NUFF-workshops and their families. We feel with them and we want to request the Israeli government to stop the bombing.
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Also at the 19th annual Tromsø International Film Festival (TIFF09) NUFF presents its winning films in the official festival program, arranges the second NUFF@TIFF film- and sound-design workshop and invites young filmmakers and the international guests and all professionals to meet young filmmakers at the NUFF-reception.
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The 7th annual Youth Cinema film revolution will be 2009 June 6th to 14th in Tromsø, Norway. There will be the Nordic Youth Film Competition, an international youth film program, the exciting atmosphere of the NUFF film workshops with international film professionals and a lot of young people from the entire world.
Come and join us with your films and as participant. Deadline for film and workshop entries is 2009 April 1st!
Entry here...
NUFF 2009 is over. the last participants are sitting in the Cafe Pegen at TVIBIT and waiting for there turn to attend the airport to leave Tromsø. Ten days of hard work, fun, international understanding and a lot of films from all over theworld are over! At the end the NUFF jurys could agree on six winner films.
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Also at the 19th annual Tromsø International Film Festival NUFF presents their winning films from the Nordic youth film competition. The best films in each age-group and the best Nordic youth film will be screened as a part of the official TIFF program.
As a special event for young filmmakers during TIFF is the annual NUFF-reception at TIBIT. Young filmmakers meet professionals and international guests at the youth culture house TVIBIT, Friday, 16th at 12:00!
NUFF is an active partner of the Tromsø International Film Festival. During TIFF09 there will be a NUFF film- and film music workshop. 8 young filmmakers from Murmansk, Rovaniemi, Luleå and Tromsø will be working with the professional film- and theatre director Christer Engberg from Sweden to produce a short film the six days of the festival. In addition there will be a group of 6 young local musicians and the professional musician and music producer Bojan Vuletic from Germany working with the film-music and sound-design. This is a unique concept and proved already at NUFF 2008 with great success.
These workshops are funded by the North Calotte Council and Film&Kino
The music composed, arranged and played by the participants of the NUFF 2008 Sound-Design workshop with Eirik Fjelde, Jonas Sivertsen, Hogne Rundberg, Øyvind Nygård, Kjetil Karolius, Truls Olsen, Bojan Vuletic is now online available.
Listen the music
The state secretary for culture Wegard Harsvik wrote a speech to open officially the Nordic Youth Film Festival 2008.
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Check it out at our Youtube profile YouthCinema
Best film in age group A 15-17
A Lucky Day by Magnus Bertelsen from Denmark
The jury’s comment:
“A Lucky Day stood out as a good example of cinematographic storytelling, giving the audience the opportunity to interpret the story, leaving the viewer with different experiences of space and time.”
Best film in age group B 18-20
Klasskamrater by Victor Lindgren form Sweden
The jury’s comment:
”Klasskamrater manages to tackle a sensitive subject matter, giving an indebt understanding of the emotional aspects of bullying and the shortcomings of adults in helping resolve this matter. The filmmaker places the viewer in the middle of the conflict instead of being just a spectator.”
Best film in age group C 21-25
Life Worth Living by Eirik Svensson from Finnland
The jury’s comment:
”Life Worth Living demonstrates a very talented use of form, bringing out the beauty of everyday situations and thoughts through the carful choice of aesthetics. And does so with a great deal of humor!”
The best Nordic youth film 2008
Dart by Måns Wide from Sweden
The jury’s comment:
“Dart, is a film where the characters and the dialogue is linked together in a brilliant way. The originality of the story is also perfectly matched with the cinematographic language. Dart hits like a dart!”
NUFF 2008 jury was:
Rachel Andersen Gomez (filmmaker from Tromsø, Norway)
Lasse Gjertsen (filmmaker from Larvik, Norway)
Christer Engberg ( film director, theatre director and Musician from Luleå, Sweden)
Media has placed in people around the world one distinctive image of what Peru looks like: an Andean peasant walking a llama surrounded by a breathtaking landscape with high snowy peaks at the back and maybe ruins from an ancient culture somewhere in this picture. But Peru is more than this postcard simplification, it is a diverse, multicultural, full of contradictions and complex society which young Peruvian film makers have started, a few years ago, exploring and representing. They have portrayed characters and told stories from the diverse groups that conforms it, thus generating and new image of what we are.
NUFF`s cooperation with Insomnia festival and You Tube`s role in regard to contemporary film and media.
Lasse Gjertsen(23) is recognized by both Norwegian and international press for his You Tube videos.
Lasse Gjertsen is world-known for his creative and controversial videos. His piece “Det ultimate selvmord” resulted in Gjertsen being banned from the site, only to be accepted (only) a few hours later. His most popular video “Amature” has been impressively 7,892,718 times. Lasse`s first video “Hyperactive” is a piece about a human beatbox. In 2007 Gjertsen directed the Swedish artist Timbuktu`s musicvideo “Get Fizzy”.
During the 2008 festival , NUFF in cooperating with Insomnia festival present a seminar regarding You Tube`s extreme popularity and its affect on the film industry. Lasse Gjertsen,as one of the successful “You Tubers”, will present his films and attend a panel discussion on the internets significance for young film makers today. He will also be a part of the NUFF jury.
The fact that such a “underground” celebrity visits Tromsø and takes part in our program is a joy for the festival.
Watch the videos of Lasse Gjertsen here…
 The Nordic Youth Film Festival – NUFF 2008
from June 7th to 15th
For the first time open for the entire world!
Nordic film competition with the best youth film made by filmmakers between 15 and 25 years old from the Nordic countries.
Deadline for entries: April 1st!
Five film workshops supervised by international professional filmmakers and 40 participants from all over the world.
Deadline for entries: May 1st!
The entry forms will be available by the end of Janauary.
NEW! Watch the NUFF Documentary and workshop films from the last five years on http://www.youtube.com/YouthCinema
Film director and writer Asif Kapadia as workshop leader at NUFF 2008
Asif Kapadia’s latest international film production FAR NORTH, starring Michelle Yeoh, Sean Beam and Michelle Krusiec, premiered at Venice Film Festival in 2007 and had its Scandivian premiere at the Tromsø International Film Festival in January 2008. The film was partially shot in Northern Norway, and many young film talents from the local scene were lucky enough to find work on the production. Many of these young filmmakers came from the youth culture house TVIBIT in Tromsø, also the home of the Nordic Youth Film Festival (NUFF). It was easy to ask Asif Kapadia to take on the role of workshop leader at the next NUFF in Tromsø, Norway. His participation raises the NUFF-workshops to a new level, and this year we are very happy to open up NUFF for international participation.
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New at NUFF 2008
SOUND DESIGN – Film Music Fast Production
In addition to the general NUFF-workshops we’ll provide sound-design and original film music produced by young local musicians at NUFF leaded by the German musician and music producer Bojan Vuletic.
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