August 30th is deadline to apply for attending the annual pitching and networking event.

The five jury members set to evaluate 15 pitches from graduating Nordic film students include Queen of Heart’s director May el-Toukhy, and RAMS producer Grímar Jónsson. 

The full programme for the 19th Nordic Talents is now available in our catalogue CLICK HERE.

Sign up to attend before August 30, at 9am (CET) CLICK HERE.


Currently co-production director at London-based Twelve Town, Christian Wikander has been involved in the Swedish series Jordskott 2 and The Conspiracy of Silence. During his previous tenure as SVT Head of Drama, he and his team have development and produced the acclaimed series The Bridge, Real Humans and Midnight Sun.

Remaining jury members are Ulla Simonen, Finnish producer and director of AVEK, and Ståle Stein Berg, film and TV commissioner at The Norwegian Film Institute. Following two days of pitches and screening of graduation films at Copenhagen’s National Film School of Denmark, the jury will hand out on Thursday September 05, the NOK 250,000 Nordic Talents Pitch Prize and NOK 50,000 Special Mention Prize.

Commenting on his jury duties, Wikander said: “It is a great honour to be part of this fantastic jury with so much experience and talent. For me Nordic Talents is a unique event to experience the new Nordic talent in one place. I’m looking forward to listening and watching, to be inspired and getting to know more about the 2019 roster of Nordic talent. But also to meet old and new colleagues from all around, eat some great food which always is fantastic at this event and discuss content for a couple of days.”

More than 200 Nordic film students and industry delegates gather each year at the intimate Nordic Talents pitching and networking platform, where some of the most gifted Nordic filmmaking voices have been uncovered over the past 19 years, such as Gustav Möller (The Guilty), Rúnar Rúnarsson (Echo), Maria Bäck (I Remember When I Die) and this year’s jury member May el Toukhy.

This year’s edition includes:

  • a Masterclass with writer/director Benedikt Erlingsson, double winner of the Nordic Council Film Prize for Woman at War and Of Horses and Men, to be moderated by Silje Riise Næss, film commissioner at the Danish Film Institute, 
  • a Producers’ Pitch from 12 leading Nordic production companies, moderated by Noemi Ferrer Schwenk, Head of International at the Danish Film Institute. 

For more details: CLICK HERE.

Nordic Talents is co-organised by Nordisk Film & TV Fond and the National Film School of Denmark.