National Film Festival for Talented Youth
NFFTY's mission is to encourage and acknowledge young artists working in media arts -- promoting their accomplishments through festivals and programs that celebrate their talent and the compelling stories they tell. NFFTY seeks to address the marked needs in education and networking for young artists and to expand opportunities for promotion of their work to diverse and large audiences.
NFFTY is the largest and most influential film festival for young filmmakers (age 22 and under). NFFTY occurs each spring in Seattle and includes up to 200 film screenings, filmmaking panels, film contests, parties, and opportunities for young filmmakers to network with industry professionals and each other. Young filmmakers from around the world submit feature-length and short films in narrative, documentary, animation, music video, experimental and action sport categories, More than 6,000 film fans attend.
Station Next
Station Next is a film school for young people between the ages of 13 and 18 from all over Denmark. They give students hands-on experience and responsibility for their own productions and use professinal filmmakers as teachers and coaches. The students work in a realistic film environment and work in crews as they would on a professional production.
Station Next offers film camps, short courses, and Greenhouse sessions thoroughout the year to:
- teach students the craftsmanship of filmmaking.
- give students the experience of a typical film production in order to improve their skills and improve their future productions.
- increase the student's awareness of the wide variety of jobs involved in film making and to encourage them to find jobs within the film industry.
- establish contact between young people and the film industry.
Scholarship Program
Scan|Design Foundation provides scholarships for up to 3 Danish film students to attend the NFFTY Festival and present their films.
2010 Scholarships
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Lin Alluna.
Her film, Draw, won 1st place in the International Film category. It is the tale of a personal and ideological conflict in an alternative setting. Opposites must face each other in this action-packed story that leaves the viewer with something to think about. |
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Watch the film: Draw |
2011 Scholarships
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Jonathan Gelvan
Jonathan is a second year student at Station Next and the NFFTY opening night nominated movie, Departure, was his first movie as a director. |
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Mate Boegi
Mate is a third year student at Station Next where he has directed two movies. His third year movie, Retur(Return) was screened at NFFTY 2011. He is hoping to study at the Budapest Film Academy for a bachelor and then a Masters degree at UCLA or AFI |
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Sara Bjerre Pedersen
Sara is a second year student at Station Next and was the director of the movie, Upside Down, that was screened at NFFTY 2011. |
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Julie Mørch Honoré
Julie directed her first film, SKår (Broken Pieces), in 2009. At Station Next she discovered her passion for scriptwriting and cinematography: "I have always been an observer, I write in pictures and I want to translate the characters' emotions unto the screen. I am sure I will direct more films, but right now, cinematography is my big passion. The only thing certain is that I am going to be a filmmaker". |
Workshops
Danish Production Design - January 15, 2011
- Anne Mette Bo Drivsholm. Youngstown Cultural Art Center, Seattle For more info
Cinematography Through The Danish Lens - January 16, 2011
Storytelling the Danish Wah - NFFTY 2011 (April 28 - May 1)
- Director Martin Strange-Hansen, chairman of the Danish Film Directors and Oscar winner for his short This Charming Man.
Press Releases
Press releases coming soon. |
