Nordic Talents 2015

Nordic Talents 2015

When: 2-4 September 2015

Where: Copenhagen - The National Film School of Denmark

Key Dates:

Early May –Online application system for The Pitching Competition opens

Early June – Deadline for The Pitching Competition

Mid June – Participation registration opens

Mid August – Deadline participation registration

Exact dates TBA

GENERAL INFORMATION

The Aim of Nordic Talents


The aim is to introduce graduating students from the Nordic film schools to the Nordic producers and financiers, and - equally important - to give the producers and financiers the opportunity to meet the future talents. A Nordic network is essential for the industry - and Nordic Talents is the platform to meet.

From Pitch to Film

2015 is not only the Fund’s 25-year anniversary, but this year is the 15###sup/sup### time Nordic Talents will take place. So far 30 pitch prizes have been handed out. Of these 14 projects have become successful films, 8 are still in development.

Among the former Nordic Talents’ award winners are: Norwegian Erik Richter Strand's feature Sons, the Swedish documentary The Armwrestler from Solitude by Lisa Munthe and Helen Ahlsson, the Finnish feature Run Sister Run by Marja Pyykkö, the Icelandic feature Volcano by Runar Runarsson, the Danish animated feature Marco Macaco by Jan Rahbek, the Swedish feature Bekas by Karzan Kader and Finnish Antti Heikki Pesonen’s feature Headfirst.



The Pitching Competition - Who and How To Apply

Students graduating fall 2014 or spring 2015 from a selection of Nordic film schools are invited to send in one, or more, pitch(es) for a feature length fiction or animation film, a TV-series, a documentary or a cross-media project with a film or TV base platform. Applicants must use our online application form. The application system is open early May-early June here on our web site, dates TBA. 



For the application we require the following information in English:

Applicant information: name, e-mail, school

Who will pitch: name, e-mail, mobile, graduation film, function

Short info on key crew involved in the project

Project information: title, category, genre, length, target audience, tagline (max 15 words), short pitch (max 40 words), short synopsis (max 300 words), visual style of the project (max 100 words), preliminary time schedule, preliminary budget amount

Optional additional project information: detailed synopsis (max 2 A4 pages), visual material (max 4 A4 pages or link/password to visual material on FTP, Vimeo etc.)

Information on the graduation film



Awards

The Nordic Talents Pitch Prize - NOK 250.000 and The Nordic Talents Special Mention Prize - NOK 50.000: Both awards are for development support granted by Nordisk Film & TV Fond.

A production company must be on board before the grant can be activated.

The Jury

The Jury will consist of five members from the professional film and TV industry. To name a few: Lone Scherfig, Per Fly, Roy Anderson, Baltasar Kormakur, Kari Juusonen, Thomas Robsham, Tobias Lindholm and Ruben Östlund are all previous jury members.

What Happens During Nordic Talents?


The graduation students selected to pitch their projects will have a two-day workshop previous to the event to help them prepare their presentations. Nordic Talents opens with the Welcome Reception on Wednesday evening. Thursday and Friday there are Film Screenings of graduation films, and the students pitch their projects in front of the jury and the audience during Pitching Sessions. Moderator Karolina Lidin runs "the show".

The program also includes a Producer’s Pitch followed by a Mingling Session, and a Master Class before the Award Ceremony closes the event.

NOTE: Pitches, Master Class etc. will be held in English. 

Detailed program TBA in August.

Who is Invited?


The event is open for professionals from the Nordic Film and TV industry and students from Nordic film schools. 

Nordic Talents is free of charge and meals at the Danish Film School are included. 

There is a maximum of 200 participants; some seats are reserved for observers (future graduation students) from the Film Schools. To attend you must register. Participant registration is open Mid June-Mid August.

FURTHER DETAILS WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER AND ON THIS WEBSITE.