YNGVE SÆTHER (NOR)

Has a broad film background – has run a film club, directed shorts, music videos, written film criticism and is a very active film producer for the Norwegian production company Motlys AS in Oslo. His track record of feature films is long, and the newest, "Kvinner i for store herreskjorter", running on Norwegian cinemas this spring, is shot in Trondheim with a lot of regional filmworkers involved.

MARIA DAHLIN (SWE)

Producer at Miso Film, graduated from MEDIA Business School, Master in European Audiovisual Management (Supported by MEDIA and EURIMAGES) in 2003 and participated in the Screen Leaders programme (Strategic Management course supported by MEDIA) in 2009. Maria has worked as a freelance producer and executive producer since 2011, with among others Zentropa, Memfis Film and Hepp Film.

JOHAN KARRENTO (FIN)

Director, producer and screenwriter who has made around 30 shorts, documentaries and music videos. Originally from Åland, Johan has been living and working in Berlin and Los Angeles, and for the last seven years in Helsinki. He holds a Master's degree from The University of Stockholm and Hochschule der Künste – Berlin.

Anders Suneson:
TIM & TEJ ON ADVENTURE
SWE (Jämtland) | Ani. | 6 min x 10 episodes

Just where the big forest meets the high mountains there is a green valley. In the valley, a small river floats through a small forest into a small city. Below a big tree there is a small campfire. There is a man in a big hat playing his banjo while two kids are listening to him. They rest after an adventure with a carrot-cake. Tim and Tej on adventure is a film project aimed to result in a series of 10 short animated episodes of 6 minutes each. The target group are children 5 – 10 y.o. The episodes will follow Tim and Tej and their uncle Sam in their daily lives in an environment that looks like Western movies.

Martin Karlsson:
FREE BIRD
FIN | Exp. | 10-12 min

A short experimental film that mixes physical theatre and fiction film. Physical theatre is a genre of theatrical performance that pursues storytelling through primarily physical means, i.e. the communication is done by the body. There is no spoken dialogue in the film.

Martin Karlsson is a writer, moviemaker and photo-artist, and has directed several shorts. He was born in Sweden, but is working in Finland.

Emil Maxen:
MATS & MONIKA
SWE (Västernorrland) | Fic. | 20 min

A fast paced, impulsive and ingenious triangle drama between Anita, Mats and Monika. It's a character driven short film where the macho, mullet wearing Mats is faced with the crisis of sudden parenthood and the rejection of the mother. Who ever that is!

Jon Vatne:
POLYFONATURA
NOR | Doc. | 30 min

A documentary about the quirky sound artist Eirik Havnes and how he makes a symphonic masterpiece with the sounds he collects in Norwegian mountains and fjords. A film about the process of an eccentric artist's way to find his expression, and evolves into an unorthodox concert film, deep in the epic nature, where you hear the end result of his vision while you see how the sound was actually harvested.

Jon Vatne works as a film director, cinematographer and editor for documentaries and music videos.

Patrik Andersson & Henrik Evertsson:
PRIMUS MORTIMER
SWE (Jämtland) | Fic. | 28 min

Based on actual events, the film about Primus Mortimer Pettersson's life and work follows his journey from being a broken down, sectioned mental patient to a self-taught, internationally acclaimed artist. When the restless Primus is admitted to the mental hospital on Frösön he can neither remember how he got there nor his past, and is in a very bad shape both physically and psychologically. His only possessions are the clothes on his back and a bottle containing a broken ship. He is emaciated and his entire body is covered in tattoos. The doctors diagnose him with schizophrenia. Chief physician John orders Primus to stay in bed for four consecutive days in order to 'make him realise that he is in a hospital and that he is sick'. One day, one of the psychiatric nurses, Henrik, sees Primus trying to paint
using shoe polish on a piece of newspaper.

Jukka Rajala-Granstubb:
SPACEGIRL
FIN | Mus. (movement/dance) | 28 min

A Girl arrives from space. She finds out that she is invisible as she notices nobody reacts to her, not even when she climbs on them. All the strange stuff people are doing make her wonder. Spacegirl is a film about human behaviour, seeing human actions from a different aspect and making a change for the better. It has a classical love story in it with a final sacrifice for your loved ones.

Jukka Rajala-Granstubb (b. 1977) is a director and producer,
and has directed several dance movies that has been screened all over the world.

Jonathan Norberg:
FIN SOM FÅ (BEAUTY)
SWE (Västernorrland) | Fic. | 10 min

Fanny is a ten year old headstrong tomboy that realizes that her school pictures have been retouched. She now makes it her mission to get the original pictures from the photographer. The primary goal with this movie is to educate children about the manipulation of digital pictures.

Camilla Drege Størseth:
MENTAL PRINCESS
NOR | Fic.

Mental Princesses takes the concept of 'living happily ever after' to the next level. If you look into the depths of the princesses' lives, what do you see? What you were raised to see was the story of a girl that wants to be with the prince, and she'll do anything to make that dream come true. The idea of finding true love is innocent enough, but what about the ideals these princesses represent? Are they innocent?

Camilla Drege Størseth works as a producer for the company Puzzle Film in Trondheim. She has a background in theatre directing, and works with both documentaries, short fiction and music videos.

Erik Edler:
VÄSEN
SWE (Jämtland) | Fic. | 8 min

Ida, a 8 year old girl, is going with her mom and dad on a camping trip. Ida is looking through the car window, a moose is running with the same speed as the car. Ida is trying to get her parents' attention, they hush her and keep on trying to figure out the map to the camping site. A creature is hunting the moose, it pawns loudly, we can only see details of the creature – its hairy back and tail.

Harri J. Rantala:
COLLECTING POTATOES
FIN | Fic.

The story of a small village in South-Ostrobothnia Finland, in the autumn of 1968. The potato harvest in Lapland has been lost to frostbite. The women of the village organize a charity collection of potatoes to be sent to Lapland. Collecting Potatoes is a humane story about the strength of a community.

Harri J. Rantala is a director, and his last movie, Long Range Patrol, was screened in 20 cinemas in Finland. His previous shorts have been screened at over 100 festivals in 36 countries.

Henrik Wallmark:
HAVE YOU SEEN MY DOG
SWE (Västernorrland) | Ani. | 3-4 min

A 2.5D animated short film with a warm, easy going tone for kids 3-7 y.o. The film takes place in the fictional late-medieval city Bix. It follows Hannelin who's looking for his dog, Bernard, which seems to have vanished. Hannelin searches the city for it, asking the citizens, but no one has seen it.