21 Nov 2024
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Stockholm Film Festival Director Git Scheynius Talks Gender Equality in the Movies

For nearly 30 years, Git Scheynius has been passionate about increasing female representation in the film industry and she knows what it takes to achieve this seemingly lofty goal. When it comes to gender equality in the movies, there’s a lot of talk about the wage gap between male and female actors, but there isn’t […]

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Stockholm Film Festival focuses on female directors

Sweden’s most important film festival is around the corner, as with every edition the festival opens submissions of films of all kinds, styles and origins. Today together with the face of this year’s festival poster, it has has been announced that 50% of the participant films in the Stockholm XXVIII Competition will be directed by women. The movie […]

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Ricky Whittle at Comic Con Stockholm

When Stockholm Comic Con was in town, they of course brought along some actors to pose for photos, sign autographs and most importantly, answer questions from fans in Q&A sessions. Here we bring you a bit of the rather easy-on-the-eyes Ricky Whittle and his Q&A, in which he flatters the Swedes, has a go at […]

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Stockholm International Film Festival 2016’s opening night

Last night at the Skandia movie theatre, Ken Loach, one of Europe’s biggest film directors, was in charge of cutting the inaugural celluloid ribbon and thus initiating the countless activities of Stockholm Film Festival this year. Loach was accompanied by Stockholm Film Festival’s director Git Scheynius  during his inaugural speech. The director of films like Kes, The Wind That Shakes The Barely, presented his […]

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Getting our Nerd on at Comic Con

Comic Con is the place to be for all of us who like nerding over stuff like comics, superheroes, movies, TV series, gaming, fandom and cosplay. The Stockholm Comic Con was once again held at Kistamässan on the first weekend of November, and the event drew a large crowd, many of them all dressed up for […]

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Unmissable TV this autumn
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Unmissable TV this autumn

Autumn is here and whether we want it or not we become a little bit more comfortable staying at home and cozying up on our sofas enjoying a good film or a good tv show. And some of Sweden’s biggest TV channels know it! We had a chance to have a sneak peek on what […]

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Interview: Meet inspiring author and film maker Naseem Quraishi-Larsson

We are living in a world where women want to be more than just storytellers. Women want to inspire more than they did before. We talked to Naseem Quraishi-Larsson, who is a CEO and film producer for QL Filmdevelopment. She is an author, public speaker, and film maker with a strategy and change consultant background. She […]

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From the film Sonita.
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Tempo Documentary Festival to explore ¨Power¨ – March 7-13

We had a chance to do an interview with Melissa Lindgren, program director and curator of Tempo Festival, to get full insight to a festival that is unique in its type in Stockholm and in Sweden. Tempo is a cross-disciplinary festival, that focuses on documentary story telling, representing film, audio, trans-media and photo, and it […]

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Ellen Burstyn receives Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award
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Ellen Burstyn receives the Bronze Horse and talks horror at Stockholm Film Festival

On the night of Friday the 13th of November director and actress Ellen Burstyn came to receive the Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award and to present a special screening of one of her most well-known films, The Exorcist during the Horror Night Deluxe as a part of the Stockholm Film Festival. During the Horror Night Deluxe also […]

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