The 2025 Nordic Talents international jury and strategic industry panels are confirmed. Free registration for the popular event is open until Sept 6th or until full capacity is reached.

Ten selected projects will be pitched by upcoming talents to the Nordic industry and the international jury at the National Film School of Denmark September 11. The Nordic Jury members in 2025 are: Sara Stockmann (DK), Elina Pohjola(FI), Finn Gjerdrum (NO), Pelle Rådström (SE), and Julien Temple (UK). The pitches are followed by an on-stage conversation with the jury, moderated by NFTVF’s Karolina Lidin.

The graduation films connected to the selected projects to be pitched September 11th will be screened from noon September 10th at the Film School. Registered delegates also get access to them online.

During the afternoon, Nordic production companies, broadcasters, and film institutes will introduce their strategies in the global, ever-changing media landscape, while Nordic/international distributors will discuss which Nordic content travels best today - and why.

Please register to attend the pitches, networking lunch, and the industry afternoon, moderated by Noemi Ferrer. All Nordic Talents delegates and guests are invited to a networking dinner on September 10.

Visit nordictalents.com for the official programme, registration and more info, or: CLICK HERE.

The 2025 Nordic Talents Jury:

Julien Temple is a British film, documentary, and music video director. He began his career with short films featuring the Sex Pistols, and has continued with various off-beat projects, including The Great Rock’n Roll Swindle, Absolute Beginners, and a documentary film about the Glastonbury Festival.

Sara Stockmann is an award-winning film producer behind 30+ acclaimed documentaries, films, and series. Her work includes Armadillo (Cannes & Emmy winner, directed by Janus Metz) and The Son and the Moon (Min arv bor i dig) **(Nordic Film Council Nominee 2024, directed by Roja Pakari). She is currently in post-production on the Danish-Korean narrative feature HANA KOREA (by director Frederik Sølberg). In 2024, Stockmann was honoured with both the Nordic Producer Award by the Board of Nordisk Panorama and the prestigious IB Award, presented by the Danish Film Directors Association to recognise courageous, innovative, and rebellious Danish film producers. Stockmann is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. From 2013 to 2021, she served as Chair of the Documentary Council at the Danish Film Institute, appointed by the Danish Minister of Culture.

Elina Pohjola is a Finnish Film Commissioner, with a background in film production. She has a Master of Arts in Film and TV Production from ELO Helsinki Film School. Elina started her own production company, Pohjola-filmi, in 2009. Between 2009 and 2020, she produced over 20 titles including feature films, short films, series, documentaries, and fiction, many of them premiering at AA-festivals and winning prizes all over the world. Her latest film as a producer was Girl Picture (Tytöt tytöt tytöt), the first Finnish feature length fiction film ever to be selected in the competition at Sundance Film Festival, where it also won the Audience Award. Since 2021, Pohjola has worked as a Film Commissioner at Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company, running the film team, and commissioning feature fictions for Yle.

Finn Gjerdrum produced his first feature film Eggs 30 years ago, and has since then produced and co-produced more than 40 features. The films have competed at major festivals, and won awards, but have also had large audiences. “I believe that there is no contradiction between box office and high artistic ambitions, and when it works, everyone is happy, both the filmmakers and the audience. I have also produced TV series for streamers, and I enjoy developing and researching format- and storytelling possibilities for each story. I started the production company Paradox in 1998, and I'm still eager to push it further,” Gjerdrum says.

Pelle Rådström was born in 1986 in Stockholm, where he still lives. He holds a Master’s degree in screenwriting from the Stockholm University of the Arts, and has written several acclaimed and award-winning short films, feature films, and TV series. Rådström is, among other things, the head writer of the TV series Pressure Point (Smärtpunkten), for which he earlier this year won the prestigious Nordic Script Series Award. Later this year, the feature film Kevlar soul (Kevlarsjäl), written by Rådström, will premiere in Swedish cinemas.