Girls Filming in the Rural Areas kicked off with great fanfare the third week of January and is the first time the course has been offered to rural communities other than Reykjavík. The Children's Culture Fund generously funded the project so that girls and transgender individuals could be given the opportunity to attend the course in the rural areas. RIFF hopes that the course can become an annual opportunity for local communities, as it is important to give girls and transgender individuals a space to try their hand at filmmaking. Both to increase the chances that girls and transgender individuals will become more prominent in the field later on, which is currently very male-dominated, both in terms of the profession itself and the subjects in television shows and films.
It was Reykjanes that rode the wave this spring semester at the Fjörheimar community center in Keflavík and 22 girls came together during school hours for an entire week. Key aspects of filmmaking such as screenwriting, directing, cinematography and editing were taught and the course ended with the submission of a 5-minute short film. The girls could not be heard to say anything other than that they were extremely satisfied with the course. Marzibil Sæmundardóttir, Ninna Pálmadóttir and Anna Sæunn Ólafsdóttir were the ones who saw the lessons, Baltasar Kormákur came to visit as a secret guest and both Hringbraut and Landinn stopped by to film and do some interviews.
