Nordic Youth Film Festival, youth culture house Mr Pink in Murmansk and Media Lab Arkhangelsk hosted a workshop in Tromsø during TIFF 2015. Under the title "Critical Journalism & Documentary» 6 participants from Northern Norway and Northwest Russia met to create a critical documentary on the Tromsø International Film Festival (TIFF). The goal of this project was to investigate what means critical journalism and documentary, why it is so important, and what can we learn from each other by collaborating across borders? Synopsis: Tromsø Internasjonal Filmfestival TIFF had in 2015 its 25th anniversary. Since many years TIFF is the most important film event with the larges number of sold tickets in Norway. But still the Norwegian Ministry of Culture is not supporting the festival financial. The film tries to investigate this situation and is focusing on some critical questions. Workshop leader: Trine Hamran (Vadsø, Norway) The Filmmakers: Elizaveta Podolskaja (Murmansk, Russia) Hanna Suni Johansen (Kabelvåg, Norway) Iver Jensen (Stormarknes, Norway) Michail Vilchinkov (Petrozavodsk, Russia) Natalya Vinogradova (Petrozavodsk, Russia) Vitalia Bredikhina (Arkhangelsk, Russia)