On April 26th, representatives from the Norwegian and Danish film institutes visited Kristiansand to meet with us at Norgesfilm. We discussed exciting collaboration opportunities within digital film distribution to children and young people across borders.
In the picture we see employees from the Danish Film Institute (DFI), the Norwegian Film Institute (NFI) and Norgesfilm (NF) on top of Odderøya in Kristiansand. From left to right: Martin Schantz Faurholt (DFI), Lisbeth Juhl Sibbesen (DFI), Jens Nielsen Gram (DFI), Tina Andersson (NF), Marianne Hjerpseth (NFI), Anders Koppang-Grønn (NF), Berit Andersen (NFI) and Helene Retzius (NF).
The goal of the meeting was, among other things, to look at the possibility of exchanging content and learning resources between the streaming services Filmrommet.no and Filmcentralen.dk, as well as look at other potential areas of cooperation within film dissemination to children and young people in Norway and Denmark. Some of the things discussed were the translation of DFI's Film Lexicon into Norwegian and the possibility of using Norgesfilm's educational player on both Filmrommet and Filmcentralen.
CEO of Norgesfilm, Anders Koppang-Grønn, says that the Kristiansand company has collaborated with both the Danish and Norwegian film institutes for a number of years within streaming service technology and film distribution.
– Based on our new cooperation agreement with NFI and thus an even closer collaboration in the future, it is natural to raise our sights and look together at opportunities across national borders. Here lies an exciting potential to utilize each other's experiences and expertise so that we can communicate good films in an educational context to children and young people in an even better way in the future.
As Koppang-Grønn mentions, Norgesfilm has entered into a new cooperation agreement with NFI. Over the next four years, NFI and Norgesfilm will collaborate on film distribution via the streaming service Filmrommet.no, as well as the development of a new distribution service for school cinema films.
– We are very pleased with the meeting between the Danish Film Institute (DFI), us and Norgesfilm, says Marianne Hjerpseth, section manager for Participation and Arena at NFI. – We all three have a common goal of strengthening the educational dissemination work aimed at children and young people. DFI has been working on this for a long time, and has a number of good learning resources and experiences that we can reap from. This is both inspiring and valuable in the further work of developing a comprehensive and good service for film dissemination in schools that Norgesfilm is now working on.
The Danish Film Institute has for many years provided films to schools throughout Denmark via the streaming service Filmcentralen.dk. More than 3,000 Danish short and documentary films, as well as a number of associated teaching materials, are available for use by primary and secondary schools, and the service is continuously being developed.
Head of department at DFI, Jens Nielsen Gram, says that DFI is now looking forward to expanding the Norwegian-Danish film dissemination cooperation. - At the Danish Film Institute, we have had a good cooperation with Norgesfilm for many years, now we are looking forward to expanding cooperation and looking at opportunities to develop dissemination measures and put the Nordic similarities and differences into play. And we look forward to sharing insights and experience about the target group of children and young people.
Contact
Editorial and Marketing Manager at Norgesfilm, Tina Andersson.
Tel: +47 38 12 41 00
Mobile: +47 95 02 11 64
Email: tina[at]norgesfilm.no