Arctic Film Festival

Arctic Film Festival is an annual film festival held in September in the Norwegian archipelago, Svalbard's town, Longyearbyen. The festival is organized by HF Productions, and is a United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals' (SDGs) initiative.^[1] It is the northernmost film festival in the world.^[2]

Arctic Film Festival

Location	Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway
Established	September 2019
Founded by	Henrik Friis de Magalhães e Meneses^[1]^[2]
Website	https://www.arcticfilmfestival.net/
2020 2019

The festival

Arctic Film Festival was first started in September 2019, and is held annually at the only screening venue in Longyearbyen, Kulturhuset. The event takes filmmakers on environmental excursions in the Arctic region and programs roundtable discussions moderated by HF Head of Production Benn Wiebe.^[3][4] It is organized by Copenhagen-based production company, HF Productions, and is a SMART initiative by United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) platform.^[2][3][5]

Arctic Film Festival awards winners

2019

The following are the winners of the 2019 Arctic Film Festival are:^[6][7]

• Best Feature Film: Julia Blue (2018), director Roxy Toporowych
• Best Short Film: Night Shift (2018), director Marc Salameh
• Best Drama: Amaro (2019), director Fabian Fritz
• Best Feature Documentary: Salvage (2019), Amy C. Elliott
• Best Short Documentary: Eskimo Inc. (2019), director Max Baring
• Best Student Production: Games of Survival: A Culture Preserved in Ice (2019), director Nicholas Natale
• Best Special Mention: Rear View Mirror (2019), director Jonathan May
• Best Experimental: Backbone (2019), director Eilif Bremer Landsend
• Best Animated Short: Beyond Us - A Last Story after the Collapse (2019), director Maxime Tiberghien
• Best Music Score: Jetty (2018), director Logan Lanier
• Best Directing: Dancing With Monica (2017), director Anja Dalhoff
• Best Cinematography: Realms (2018), director Patrik Söderlund
• Best SDG Production: ZAN (2017), director Rick Grehan
• Best Screenplay: The Venusian Chronicles (2018), writer Lynn Vincentnathan

References

1. "Arctic Film Festival". FilmFreeway. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
2. "How 25-Year-Old Henrik Friis Runs a Million-Dollar Enterprise HF Production". news.yahoo.com. 24 September 2019. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
3. "HF Productions brings UN SDGs to the Arctic Film Festival". Yahoo.com. 4 October 2019. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
4. "Arctic Film Festival, Svalbard - Festival in Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen". Visit Svalbard. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
5. "The Arctic Film Festival - United Nations Partnerships for SDGs platform". sustainabledevelopment.un.org. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
6. "Festival 2019". Arctic Film Festival. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
7. Nisar, Sardar Umar (3 October 2019). "HF Productions brings UN SDGs to the Arctic Film Festival". odysseyonline. Retrieved 14 October 2019.

External links

• Arctic Film Festival's official website