Oulu welcomes you to the 18th annual Nordisk Panorama in the 21-26th of September! This is the second time for Oulu to host the festival for independent Nordic short and documentary films, the previous time being in autumn of 2002.

The festival is arranged in co-operation with moviemaker’s northern association Filmkontakt Nord and is held annually in one of the participating five cities which are, besides Oulu, last year’s festival city Århus, Bergen, Malmö and Reykjavik.

The festival itself will be an eclectic mix of arctic hysteria spiced up with northern Finland’s beautiful nature and of course, young moviemakers. Because that’s what the festival is all about: showcasing new and up-coming Nordic talents. It also provides a forum for professionals and cinema enthusiasts to interact with one another in screenings, seminars and social events held during the festival. Nordisk Panorama will have the set it deserves in the city’s new movie centre.

As a parallel activity to the festival, Filmkontakt Nord organises Nordisk Panorama Market for international movie festivals and movie distributors. The Market offers each year hundreds short film and documentary titles from the previous festival.  During the Festival a Nordic Co-Financing Forum will also be arranged for Scandinavian television networks, movie institutes and representatives for the audiovisual financiers.

Registration for the film competition ends the 15th of May!

The registration for competition for best documentary and short film categories as well as the accreditation of guests have begun. The deadline for registration is the 15th of May. Of all the registered films about 60 films will be selected for the competition. The films admission or rejection will be announced to the applicants at the latest two months after the registration deadline.

And the prizes are:

The Nordic Short Film Award and The Nordic Documentary Award are both 6500 euros. The short film award is sponsored by YLE (Finnish Broadcsting Company) Yhteistuotannot and the documentary award by FST (Finlands Svenska Television). The SF Nordic Talent Award will go to the director of jury’s choice, based on a short fiction film or animation shown in competition at Nordisk Panorama. The award is worth 10 000 euros, and it goes towards development and possible production of a new project with SF Film. Canal+ Award is given to one of the films in the short film competition, selected by Canal+ representatives, and consists of purchase of the film for Canal+ broadcasting.

Qualifications for competition

Documentaries are accepted in any length, but for the short films the running time is not more than 60 minutes. The submittee must be an independent production that is either produced in Scandinavia or has a Scandinavian director and is completed within this or the preceding year and has not been accepted for last year’s Nordisk Panorama.The films must be subtitled in English or English versioned.

So what are you waiting for – log on to http://www.filmkontakt.dk for more information and register for the competition!

If you can not send the material electronically, please mail it to the following address:

Filmkontakt Nord

Vognmagergade 10

DK-1120 Copenhagen K

Denmark

Good luck in the competition and if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask us!