Industry Panels
MUSIC IN FOCUS - ICELAND CASE STUDY
Venue: The Nordic House, Sæmundargata 11, 101 Reykjavík.
Date: Wednesday 6th October
Time: 16.30 – 18.30
Open to the public under registration.
Recorded and live-streamed.
Moderated by Cheryl Kara
This year RIFF will focus on the FILM Music scene with regards to the impact that Icelandic composers have gathered internationally over the years and honouring the historically recently acquired achievements of Hildur Guðnadóttir, Academy Awards, USA Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score) 2020 & BAFTA Film Awards Winner ( Original Music) 2020, Winner 2020 BAFTA Television Craft Award & BMI Film Music Award ( Original Music), Primetime Emmy Awards, winner of Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special (Original Dramatic Score) 2019, etc.
In this panel, relevant composers and figures from the film Icelandic music industry will expose why Hildur´s awards only mark the beginning of Iceland’s success in scoring films and TV.
VOICES OF ELSEWHERE
Venue: The Nordic House, Sæmundargata 11, 101 Reykjavík.
Date: Saturday 9th October
Time: 13.00 – 14.30
Open to the public under registration.
Recorded and live-streamed.
Moderated by Sigríður Huld Blöndal
This panel deals with the importance of Arctic Film productions and their worldwide distribution in regards to the transmission and conservation of the arctic cultural values.
Film re-thinks and re-formulates images, legacies, and impacts within far more dynamic and multi-directional global contexts. Furthermore, film identifies and engages with a wide range of unknown forms and narratives that foreground movement, mobility and interaction, inside and outside of established Nordic film traditions.
VOD and the implementation of funds towards the Arctic and High North film productions are key players in breach entrenched structures towards the conservation and promotion of a specific Scandinavian cultural lineage and small-nations, the pan-regional voices of elsewhere.
ICELANDIC NORDIC NOIR
Venue: The Nordic House, Sæmundargata 11, 101 Reykjavík.
Date: Saturday 9th October
Time: 15.00 – 16.30
Open to the public under registration.
Recorded and live-streamed.
Moderated by Þórunn Lárusdóttir
From an international perspective, the adaptation of books into script plays as per the contemporary Nordic cinema is indubitably flourishing, Scandinavian productions keep showing an ever-growing active interest by audiences, Tv shows and films are an integral part of debates concerning cultural and identity politics.
Icelandic films have received critical praise, Tv series have matured large fan audiences outside the Nordics and have earned the marketing term ‘Nordic Noir’ which accomplished popularity and made a major improvement for funding opportunities.
Nordic films regularly win awards at major international film festivals in addition to screening in mainstream cinemas and VOD platforms worldwide.
Coming from a region of roughly twenty million people, the success of Nordic cinema is truly outstanding.
In this panel scriptwriters, writers and industry experts will contest this occurrence sharing their visions and understanding about it.
