Services

isfi applications

Other financers and festivals

Here you can find links to other film funders and festivals.

Norsk Filminstitutt
https://www.nfi.no

Svensk Filminstitut
https://www.filminstitutet.se/

Finnish Film Foundation
https://www.ses.fi/en/home-english/

Nordisk Film og TV Fond
https://www.nordiskfilmogtvfond.com/

Filmfond Nord
https://filmfondnord.no/

Nordnorsk Filmsenter
https://www.nnfs.no/

Filmpool Nord
https://filmpoolnord.se/

Sundance Film Institute
https://www.sundance.org/

Skábmagovat Film Festival
https://www.skabmagovat.fi/

ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
https://imaginenative.org/

Berlin Film Festival
https://www.berlinale.de/en/home.html

Maoriland Film Festival
https://maorilandfilm.co.nz/

Nuuk International Film Festival
https://niff.gl/

granted applications

mentors

The International Sami Film Institute can support writers with mentor/dramaturg help. Since the establishment of ISFI, we have seen the benefits of dramaturgical help to improve scripts and we highly recommend using dramaturgical assitance in your writing process. ISFI is positive to consider covering the costs of dramaturgical assistance to projects that we have supported. The mentors below have been mentors for filmmakers in different courses and labs. You can contact us if you need mentorship.

Nils Gaup

Profession: Director, mentor in Arctic Indigenous Screenwriting Workshop (2024-2025)

Nils Gaup is a film director and his feature film "Pathfinder" was nominated for an Oscar Award in 1987. He has directed several feature films and tv series as f.ex The Kautokeino Rebellion (2008). Nils has been mentoring the Sámi film industry since the establishment of ISFI.

Amanda Kernell

Profession: Film Director/writer, mentor in Arctic Indigenous Screenwriting Workshop (2024-2025)

Amanda Kernell was born in 1986 in Umeå, Sweden. She is a trained Director of The National Film School of Denmark and has since 2006 made several award-winning short films. SAMI BLOOD was her feature film debut. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival 2016 and has since then won over 30 awards. CHARTER (2020) is Amanda’s second feature film.

Bird Runningwater

Profession: Producer, director, mentor in Arctic Indigenous Screenwriting Workshop (2024-2025)

Bird Runningwater (Cheyenne/Mescalero Apache) was raised on the Mescalero Apache Reservation. He has dedicated his 28-year career to creating Native American and Indigenous stories in film and TV. He is an Executive Producer on Fancy Dance (Apple TV+), Free Leonard Peltier, and Phantoms of the Sierra Madre, and led Sundance’s Indigenous Program.

Suvi West

Profession: Director, Scriptwriter, mentor in Arctic Indigenous Screenwriting Workshop (2024-2025)

Suvi West is a multiple award winning Sámi film director and scriptwriter. In 2023 the Association of Finnish Film Directors chose West as a Director of the Year. In the same year she was granted the Sámi film festival Skábmagovat lifetime achievement award. West is Master of Arts graduated from Helsinki Film School.

Kate Leys

Profession: Script and story editor, mentor in Arctic Indigenous Screenwriting Workshop (2024-2025)

She has worked for many years on countless British and European productions and also for feature films, short films, and TV series all over the world. She has worked with filmmakers at ISFI since 2018. She also runs masterclasses and workshops for screenwriters and filmmakers including at ISFI, ImagineNATIVE film festival in Toronto etc.

workshops

One of the main aims of the International Sami Film Institute is to build capacity in the Sámi film industry. We offer various workshops in different fields in film. You can contact us if there are specific courses you would like us to organize.

Upcoming workshops

Arctic Indigenous SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP

17.10.2024
SÁMI PRODUCERS LAB

07.10.2024
impACT LAB Marché du Film Cannes

15.05.2024

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