Steinar Høydal (50)
Is a lecturer at Volda University college where he teaches at the master program for journalists and producers. He has worked 10 years as a photographer, editor and journalist at TV2. Høydal has produced several documentaries and animation films.
Profession: Curator, writer, nonfiction story consultant
Pamela Cohn is an American independent film curator and writer based in Europe. She programs for DokuFest: The International Documentary and Short Film Festival in Prizren, Kosovo, and has worked for the True/False Film Fest in Columbia, Missouri, DocPoint in Helsinki, Finland, among others. Additionally, she curates thematic sidebar programs for a wide array of international arts and film festivals. She has consulted for the DOX BOX Association as the English-language brand manager and editor, and produces and curates the independent screening series Kino Satellite, consisting of community-based experimental film and video exhibitions in art galleries, studios, and traditional cinema spaces showcasing under-regarded work. She consults for such organisations as the National Endowment for the Arts, Tribeca Film Institute, and Scottish Documentary Institute as a selection committee member for funds, grants, and pitch forums. She is a contributing writer and interviewer for FILMMAKER Magazine, The Calvert Journal, BOMB Magazine, Guernica, Senses of Cinema, Prishtina Insight, and Desistfilm. She is the author of a forthcoming collection of long-form conversations with artists and filmmakers called _Lucid Dreaming: Making Nonfiction Cinema in the Twenty-First Century _to be published by O/R Books in New
York in autumn 2019.
Skafti Gundmundsson Kraft is an Ålesund-based film maker med with much experience within film production in Scandinavia. He is educated at «Konstindustriella Högskolan in Helsinki» as film editing and documentary. He has edited an unknown number of documentaries, features, and TV-dramas on Iceland and in Norway. «Water Easy Reach» and «Eggs» made by Bent Hamer. He has also worked as editing consultant on films like «The optimists» and «Good girl». He has for several years been working at Lillehammer university college as first amanuensis in film editing and dramaturgy.