International and national collaboration

International collaboration

Participation in international collaborations is important in order to give researchers, teachers and students access to international education and research environments and to be competitive in an increasingly globalised education and labour market. Internationalisation is, in many ways, an important component in the University’s quality assurance work.

At present, the School of Film Directing has close contacts with the Rwanda Film Institute in Kigali and the Suchitra Film and Drama Center in Bangalore, India.

Collaboration in the Nordic countries

The School of Film Directing is particularly active within the framework of the Nordic film school network: NORDICIL. Important annual meeting places are the Gothenburg International Film Festival and Nordic Panorama – Five Cities Film Festival. ‘Filmkontakt Nord’ (the filmmakers’ own organisation i.e. makers of short film and documentary film in the Nordic countries) is the organisation responsible for Nordic Panorama.
For nearly fifteen years now this organisation has, in collaboration with key players on the national arena, built up both a cultural and industrial platform, in order, among other things, to promote Swedish film in Europe and the world. ‘Filmkontakt Nord’ and Nordic Panorama are, first and foremost, of great significance for short film and documentary film.

The annual event and meeting place arranged by ‘Nordisk Film and TV- Fond’ (Nordic Film and TV Fund) called Nordic Talent, which takes place every year in Copenhagen, and is for film students from the Nordic countries that have recently completed their degrees, is yet another important forum where students from the Nordic film schools can screen their degree projects and pitch future projects to Nordic film producers and television companies.

Other important platforms for our school are the annual film festivals, that is, the Gothenburg International Film Festival, the Uppsala Short Film Festival and the Tempo Documentary Film Festival, which shows the most exciting short films and documentaries from Sweden and from around the world, and also arranges seminars where hot issues around the moving image are discussed.

National collaboration

At present, the School of Film Directing works first and foremost in close collaboration with the film and television industry in the west of Sweden: from courses for film professionals organised by ‘Film i Väst’ (a regional production centre and a public regional film fund in the west of Sweden) and ‘Sveriges Television’ (the Swedish Broadcasting Company) to individual production companies such as ‘Göta Film’, ‘Filmkreatörerna’ (The Film Creators), ‘Illusionfilm’, (Illusion Film), ‘Migma Film’, ‘Cine-Qua-Non’, ‘Plattform’ (‘Platform’), and others.

The School of Film Directing has collaborated with the acting programme at the Academy of Music and Drama at the University of Gothenburg and the programme for film professionals in Trollhättan on a regular basis for many years.