The Nordic Youth Film Festival - NUFF
2008-06-04
Young filmmakers aged 15-25 years from all the Barents countries gathers in Tromsø 7th-16th of June to take part in workshops and compete in the Nordic youth film competition for 4 prizes. The program is very colourfull and contains comedies, experimental and very serious stories.
Based at the youth Culture House TVIBIT in Tromsø, Northern Norway, NUFF has already a five year success-story. Started by the wish to support young local filmmakers and to get an idea how our neighbours making film and telling stories discovered NUFF the world of the Youth Cinema.
The quality of the films increases, the incredible atmosfere of the workshops and the growing network of filmmakers, partners and projects is making NUFF to a unique summer event behind the polar circle under the overwhelming midnight sun.
NUFF offers- Nordic film competition
- International film program
- International film workshop
- International film network
- International film seminars, discussions and a lot of fun!
With the method of "From the idea to a finished film" in only one week participants learn how to make a movie directly in cooperation with professional filmmakers.
NUFF invites regularly profiled filmmakers from different countries to supervise the five workshop groups. With the different backgrounds from professional filmmaking film producers like Jim Stark (USA), script writers like Torleif Hoppe (Denmark), film directors like Matthias Glasner and Jörg Buttgereit (both Germany) or documentary filmmakers like Linda Hattendorff (USA) and Aslaug Holm (Norway) are teaching directly from their experience of daily professional work with film.
NUFF has no classes! The groups are deciding the ideas, the content and the methods. Every participant will find his/her place in the group and the position which fits best in the production team. The goal is to get the film ready to the deadline and watch the results together on the big scene in one of Northern Europe's oldest cinema Verdensteatret Kino.
The Norwegian Barents Secretariat support the cooperation between NUFF and Murmansk Regional Board for Youth affairs.
More information about the competition, the international film program and the workshops visit this link
