Renowned program director Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Boyer heads the RIFF program committee this year and is responsible for the competition category The Wise Ones. The category is dedicated to new directors who excel, among other things, in using new means of communication.<\/p>\n
The committee is one of the pillars of RIFF and, in addition to Boyer, includes Hr\u00f6nn Marin\u00f3sd\u00f3ttir, Gu\u00f0r\u00fan Helga J\u00f3nasd\u00f3ttir, Ana Catala and Giorgio Gosetti.<\/p>\n
The extensive task now awaits the committee members to choose from the numerous films that have been submitted to the festival, but the application deadline is July 15th.<\/p>\n
"Films provide a unique opportunity to shed light on a variety of issues in society, such as movements such as #metoo and Black Lives Matter. However, the theme alone is not enough; what matters most is that the film is good and that its content can spark interesting conversations. Panel discussions and this vibrant community around the films are what I find most interesting about this job," says Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric.<\/p>\n
Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric began his career in a video rental shop in Paris and is currently the artistic director of the Tribeca Film Festival in New York and the Les Arcs European Film Festival, two of the most renowned film festivals in the world. He has also been the chief program director of the Directors' Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n
"I am very happy to work at RIFF and increase the festival's reputation even more. A festival like this is a very important promotion of the country and at the same time a great platform for Icelandic filmmakers to meet foreign colleagues," says Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric.<\/p>\n
The Reykjav\u00edk International Film Festival, RIFF, takes place from September 24 to October 4. This year, the festival receives the European Union's Creative Europe - Media grant, which is awarded to outstanding film festivals in Europe and amounts to nearly eight million ISK. The festival is also a founding member of Europa Film Festivals, a new European film festival lobby group.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hinn \u00feekkti dag\u00adskr\u00e1r\u00adstj\u00f3ri Fr\u00e9\u00add\u00e9ric Boyer fer fyr\u00adir dag\u00adskr\u00e1r\u00adnefnd RIFF \u00ed \u00e1r og ber \u00e1byrg\u00f0 \u00e1 keppn\u00adis\u00adflokkn\u00adum Vitr\u00adun\u00adum. Flokk\u00adur\u00adinn er til\u00adeinka\u00f0ur n\u00fdj\u00adum leik\u00adstj\u00f3r\u00adum sem skara fram \u00far m.a. fyr\u00adir a\u00f0 nota […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":893,"featured_media":1763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"categories":[154,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frettatilkynningar","category-frettir"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}