The Norwegian International Film Festival's Nordic film market, New Nordic Films, has, as the only Nordic market for feature films, entered an agreement with the EU MEDIA programme for the next three years.
For the third year in a row, The Norwegian Festival of Dance and Film takes place during The Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund, this year from 19 to 21 August.
Jan Eggum is the new president of the juries to judge the Norwegian feature films for the 2012 Amanda Awards. The juries are hand-picked by the film industry's own organisations and consist of highly competent representatives of the Norwegian film scene.
The new Norwegian major production Kon-Tiki will open the 40th Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund on Saturday 18 August. This was announced in connection with Scandinavian Locations' reception at the Nordic embassies in Berlin today. Kon-Tiki is directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg, the duo behind the great success Max Manus.