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Israel’s blockade preventing a young filmmaker to attend at NUFF 2010 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. NUFF 2009 Festival TV is online 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... NUFF jury 2009 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. Submission stop 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 worldwide 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.
NUFF@TIFF 2009 Try Hard - The workshop film 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). NUFF 2009 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.
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.
NUFF@TIFF 2009 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. NUFF 2009 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!
And the winner is... 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. NUFF@TIFF 2009 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
NUFF sound-track online 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. NUFF 2008 opening speech The state secretary for culture Wegard Harsvik wrote a speech to open officially the Nordic Youth Film Festival 2008. Workshop films 2008 The workshop films made at NUFF 2008 er online now! Check it out at our Youtube profile YouthCinema NUFF 2008 is over Best film in age group A 15-17 The jury’s comment: Best film in age group B 18-20 The jury’s comment: Best film in age group C 21-25 The jury’s comment: The best Nordic youth film 2008 The jury’s comment: NUFF 2008 jury was: Monday 19:30 Big Room at TVIBIT Peruvian film Lecture & films presented by Dante Luza, Lima 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. You Tube celebrity Lasse Gjertsen visits NUFF 2008. 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…
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. New at NUFF 2008 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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The Nordic Youth Film Festival – NUFF 2008