Month: August 2020

Half Elf has been selected for the “Best New Nordic Voice” competition at Nordisk Panorama this coming September.

Nordisk Panorama – Nordic Short & Doc Film Festival, or just Nordisk Panorama, is an annual film festival for short and documentary films by filmmakers from the Nordic countries. It was founded in 1990 and since 2013 held every year in Malmö in Sweden.

This years festival will be held online, due to the covid 19 pandemic. The New Nordic Voice competition introduces promising Nordic filmmakers. The works have not previously been screened in the Nordisk Panorama competition programme, and selected films are among the first releases by the filmmaker.

The premiere of Half Elf has been postponed due to the cancellation of Skjaldborg, the Icelandic documentary film festival, following rising numbers of covid 19 cases in Iceland.

This is the second time the premiere of the film is postponed due to the virus. It was supposed to premiere at Ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival Vienna, last May, where it was also nominated for the “Excellence in Visual Anthropology Awards”.

In in interview with one of Iceland’s main daily newspaper, Fréttablaðið, director Jón Bjarki Magnússon, said that his thoughts were with the organizers of the festival, who had tried their best to arrange such an event in the midst of a pandemic.

The team will now wait for the next right opportunity to premiere the film.