Dates have now been set for the popular Nordic Talents annual rendez-vous in Copenhagen co-organised by Nordisk Film & TV Fond and the National Film School of Denmark. From September 11-13, the Danish film school will turn again into a Nordic creative hub and networking platform for graduating film students, producers and financiers from the Nordic region.

Four awards will be handed out with cash prizes ranging from NOK 27,000 to NOK 250,000. Graduating students from Nordic film schools can apply to pitch a new project from May 3rd, 2013.

Eighteen pre-selected projects by Nordic graduating students will get a chance to win the NOK 250,000 Nordic Talents Pitch Prize and NOK50,000 Nordic Talents Special Mention Prize granted as development money from Nordisk Film & TV Fond. Past winning projects that have become successful films include Rúnar Rúnarsson's Volcano, Jan Rahbek' s animation film Marco Macaco, and Karzan Kader's Bekas. 

For the second year major Nordic players Svensk Filmindustri and Filmlance International will sponsor two awards - the ‘SF Award for Best Children and Family Pitch' and ‘Filmlance Seriously Big Humour Student Film Award'.

Svensk Filmindustri's award will go to the pitched project offering the strongest potential to attract a children and/or a family audience. Unlike last year where the SF award was attached to a SEK 100,000 cash prize and a 12 months first option/last refusal option from the Scandinavian major, the SF award is now set at SEK30,000 and has no option attached.

Last year's ‘SF Award for Best Children and Family Pitch' went to the National Film School of Denmark graduate Maremi Watanabe for Prince of Xmas.

The Filmlance Seriously Big Humour Student Film Award worth again SEK 30,000 is given out as a personal scholarship to be shared between the director, writer and producer of the most humorous graduation film from the Nordic film schools.
Last year's award received by Norwegian director Liv Karin Dahlström for her comedy Jarle India Unni had to be withdrawn due to rules and regulations from the Norwegian Film School. Nevertheless Filmlance International has reiterated its desire to support Nordic Talents and to incentivize the making of ‘seriously funny' Nordic projects. So the Filmlance award will be handed out again this year.

-Applications for projects to be pitched by graduating students from Nordic film schools open on May 3rd and close on June 14, 2103.

-Participants registration opens on June 14, 2013.

For full details on Nordic Talents 2013 and past events, click here.