Get to know the journalists of Nordisk Film & TV Fond

The current news team of Nordisk Film & TV Fond (NFTVF) was created in January 2024 with new voices joining in along the year. The news letter’s current pool of journalists has an extensive experience from the film, TV and media industry, both in the Nordics and internationally. Danish Ulrik Bolt Jørgensen acts as the Coordinating Editor.

Last year NFTVF also started the Nordic Talks podcast collaboration with journalist/moderator/festival consultant Wendy Mitchell around the regular Nordic Film Talk podcasts which dive deeper into the works and thoughts of Nordic industry professionals.

Around 3000 professionals subscribe to NFTVF’s weekly newsletter and many more read it regularly. The majority of readers come from the Nordic region, the UK, the USA, the Netherlands and Germany. There is a significant rise in the social media activites around the articles and the number of registered readers has grown with 40% during 2024.

All articles are featured in NFTVF’s newsletter. To sign up: CLICK HERE.

More about the journalists below or in the “Team” section on NFTVF’s website.

Feel free to send press releases and news proposals to Ulrik Bolt Jørgensen on news@nftvfond.com.

Aleksander Huser
Aleksander Huser is a Norwegian freelance film critic and journalist. He holds an M.A. in film studies from the University of Oslo, as well as a Writer-Director Diploma from the London Film Academy. In addition to Nordic Film & TV News, Huser is a regular contributor in the Norwegian film and TV magazines Rushprint and Cinema.

Davide Abbatescianni
Davide Abbatescianni is an Italian film critic and journalist. After studying theatre, film and journalism in Italy, Estonia, and Ireland, he began working as a reporter for Cineuropa in 2017, covering major festivals and markets. His articles have appeared in publications such as Variety, The New Arab, New Scientist, Business Doc Europe, and The National. He is a member of FIPRESCI and the European Film Academy. He is also a curator for the Support to EU Film Festivals project. As of 2024, he serves as a programmer of the Torino Film Festival, one of Italy's largest cinematic gatherings. He is currently based in Rome.

Eva Novrup Redvall
Eva Novrup Redvall is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Copenhagen, where she heads the Section for Film Studies and Creative Media Industries. Her research focuses on screenwriting, production and policy in the Nordic countries. 2019-2024 she headed the research project Reaching Young Audiences, on live action film and television for children and young audiences. Besides her academic work, she has been a film critic for the Danish newspaper Information since 1999, and has written several industry articles and reports. Until May 2025, she serves on the board of the Danish Film Institute.

Geoffrey Macnab
Geoffrey Macnab has been writing about film for The Independent since the 1990s. He is also a senior correspondent at Screen International and contributes regularly to the Business Doc Europe. His books include “Stairways to Heaven: Rebuilding the British Film Industry”, “Ingmar Bergman: The Life and Films of the Last Great European Director”, “Delivering Dreams: A Century of British Film Distribution”, “The Making of Taxi Driver”, “Searching for Stars: Stardom and Screen Acting in British Cinema”, “Screen Epiphanies”, and “J. Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry”.

Heidi Herrmann
Heidi Herrmann is a multilingual freelance journalist writing in Finnish, Swedish, and English. Her professional background includes roles as a news reporter at Hufvudstadsbladet (HBL), producer at Swedish Radio (SR), and both radio host and news reporter at Yle. She has a deep passion for storytelling, particularly personal and emotionally impactful narratives. Many years ago, Herrmann pursued studies in documentary filmmaking in South Africa, which inspired her first documentary – a touching exploration of the lives of home squatters. Today, Herrmann contributes to a wide range of publications, including Finnish-Swedish magazines, while continuing to seek stories that resonate on a human level.

Jan Lumholdt
Jan Lumholdt is a regular film journalist/critic since 1995, and has contributed to a number of Swedish and international publications, including Svenska Dagbladet, Film Comment, Cahiers du cinéma, and Cineuropa, as well as SVT and SR at the national Swedish broadcasting corporation. He has served as chairman of the Swedish Association of Film Critics, member of the Swedish Oscar Committee, and has published several books, notably on director Lars von Trier and actress Harriet Andersson.

Mattias Dahlström
Mattias Dahlström has worked almost 30 years as a freelance critic, reporter, columnist and editor. He started as a music critic at Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, and has ever since concentrated his writing on music, film and television. Dahlström is currently working full time at content bureau Make Your Mark, in addition to writing for NFTVF.

Mariana Hristova
Mariana Hristova is a Bulgarian film critic and programmer based in Barcelona, Spain. She is the co-founder and programmer of Bulgaria’s first film event focused exclusively on Nordic films – the Northern Lights Film Festival, which ran from 2008 to 2017 in Sofia. Currently, she writes for various film outlets, including Cineuropa, Klassiki Journal, Modern Times Review, The New Arab, and The European Journal of Animation. In addition to curating programmes for festivals and institutions, she serves on the Programme Advising team for Sheffield DocFest. She is also an indexer for the Periodicals Indexing Project (PIP) of FIAF, the International Federation of Film Archives.

Marta Balaga
Marta Bałaga is a film journalist and moderator, who writes for Variety, Cineuropa and Finnish magazine Episodi. She has collaborated with various festivals, including Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy, and Finnish Film Affair, New Horizons International Film Festival, Polish Days, and American Film Festival. She is also a member of the International Federation of Film Critics FIPRESCI, and the European Film Academy. Balaga has served on many juries, including Venice International Film Critics’ Week at the Venice Film Festival.

Per Fanefjord Laursen
Per F. Laursen has extensive experience in business journalism and other content production, covering media, ad market, consumer, communication, and tech issues. Between 2005 and 2015, Laursen helped develop MediaWatch.dk into the market leader for news and insight on media, introducing a new business model with subscribers, a paywall, and content development. MediaWatch eventually became the first site in Watch Medier. Previously, Laursen worked as an independent public relations and communication consultant and advisor for media companies. This includes 14 years of comprehensive broadcast experience, including nine years with various assignments and tasks for Viaplay Group (then Modern Times Group) and TV3.

Per Juul Carlsen
Per Juul Carlsen is a Danish journalist and writer with a focus on film and popular culture. He is currently a film critic for the Danish paper Kristeligt Dagblad and the host of the podcast Filmstemmer at the Danish Film Institute. His first book, “Miraklet 1996-2006 – ti år der forandrede dansk film”, was published in 2023. Before this, he was a television and radio host for more than 30 years at The Danish Broadcasting Corporation.

Lina Nystrand (Journalist intern at NFTVF)
Lina Nystrand is doing a 1-year internship at the Fund from September 2024 until September 2025. She is working as a project and event assistant as well as contributing to the Fund’s news page. Nystrand recently completed her BA in Journalism and Communication at the University of Helsinki, with an exchange semester studying International Relations in Paris. She has a background in multimedia journalism, as she has worked for Swedish Yle as a news reporter for web, radio and television. She also has experience in creating and distributing news content for social media.

Ulrik Bolt Jørgensen (Coordinating Editor)
Ulrik Bolt Jørgensen has worked remotely as the Coordinating News Editor since 2023. He coordinates the pool of journalists, and writes short press releases. As the founder of Arena Film, he directed the acclaimed feature-documentary The Nordkaper in the Indian Ocean (Nordkaperen i Det Indiske Ocean), and produced numerous award-winning films and successful TV programmes. As Business Development Manager at Copenhagen Capacity, he led the Film Commission and played a pivotal role in establishing the CPH Film Fund. Recently, he has been developing series for streaming platforms, working as a screenwriter, and engaging in teaching and consulting. He is a graduate producer from the National Film School of Denmark, and holds several degrees in screenwriting from the University of Southern Denmark. Bolt Jørgensen also serves as a board member of the European Producers Club.

The Nordic Film Talks is published on the "Industry Insights" section of NFTVF’s website alongside with short news articles introducing the interviewees. To listen: CLICK HERE. The podcasts is also distributed through internatiional platforms such as Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Amazon, Castbox, Deezer, Podcast Addict, Podchaser and JioSaavn.