FILM AND TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS

The Indigenous Peoples’ Film Centre supports Sámi filmmakers in finding new partners through cooperation and funding models. The centre also operates as an organisation through which indigenous filmmakers can cooperate to find global film projects and work opportunities

EDUCATION

The centre plans education for professionals and focuses on developing film education with the schools in the Sámi region.

Film education work is currently carried out with the schools in the Inari, Utsjoki and Enontekiö municipalities. The outputs of workshops have been screened in domestic and international film festivals, on TV and at different events for young people.

From autumn 2009, Utsjoki and Enontekiö upper secondary schools will provide media courses for students.

Short films, documentaries, animated films and TV programmes are made in the media department of the Sámi Education Institute in Inari. The education lasts between one and two years. Many former students of the Sámi Education Institute’s media department currently work in the media and film industry in the Sámi region. Employers include Sámi radio and TV of Finland, Norway and Sweden, independent film productions as well as film and training events.

The Indigenous Peoples’ Film Centre will organise a production event during the 2010 Skábmagovat film festival. This event brings Nordic production companies and sponsors closer to Sámi filmmakers. The purpose of the event is to promote professional filmmaking, introduce producers and filmmakers to each other and disseminate Sámi cinema. The Skábma production event lasts for two days. During the event, professionals from the Nordic film industry go through ideas, tell about Nordic funding, dissemination and screening possibilities, and give guidance on selling ideas. On the last day of the workshop the filmmakers present their own ideas to production companies and sponsors. Between six and ten filmmakers with their ideas as well as several production companies and sponsors can take part in the event. The event is free for participants.

For further information please contact the Indigenous Peoples’ Film Centre.

Telephone: +358 40 187 9909

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SKÁBMAGOVAT AND OTHER SCREENING AND DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

The Indigenous Peoples’ Film Centre participates in the organisation and development of the Skábmagovat film festival. Since 2005, the festival has also included days for children and young people, and these days are now an established part of the event. The Skábmagovat festival is an important forum for Sámi filmmakers and is increasingly the location for the premieres of Sámi films. Sámi films often spread worldwide from the Skábmagovat festival.

In addition to the Skábmagovat festival, the Indigenous Peoples’ Film Centre disseminates information on films made by the Sámi and indigenous people to international film festivals, event organisers and distributors.