Do you have a talent for writing stories? Do you have a unique voice? We seek scriptwriters and storytellers to participate in the Northern Script Program 2024. Northern Script is a scriptwriting program aimed at 18-29-year-old writers living in the Nordic countries. This year we are also inviting writers from the Baltic countries to submit
Sauna, Salmon & Karaoke What a camp Northern Script had this year at the Oulu Children’s and Youth Film Festival!! The Faroese writer and Director, Andrias Høgenni put once again all his heart into the Northern Script workshops and listened to the needs of the Nordic scriptwriters with the utmost respect and empathy. From the
This year’s Northern Script camp is just two days away. The camp will be organized together with the Oulu International Children’s and Youth Film Festival between 15th -19th of November 2023. Ten Nordic scriptwriters from all over the Nordic countries are gathering tomorrow in Helsinki from where we start our trip towards Oulu where the
Northern Script organizes a Nordic scriptwriting camp each year in Oulu together with the Oulu International Children’s and Youth Film Festival. All together 10 Nordic scriptwriters gather around in Oulu for a week to brainstorm, pitch and develop their writing skills. The camp leader is Faroese writer and director Andrias Høgenni. The Northern Script Camp
Northern Script 2023 Alumni workshops in Iceland were held between 2nd & 23rd of September. The workshop mentor was Kolbrún Anna Björnsdóttir an Icelandic actress and scriptwriter from Reykjavik. THE WORKSHOPS IN FOUR SESSIONS The Icelandic workshops were conducted in four sessions, the first four Saturdays in September. Each session was two hours long. There
Northern Script 2023 Alumni workshops in Sweden were held between 22nd & 30th of August. The workshop mentor was Torbjörn Jansson, a Swedish writer & script consultant who is currently based in Uppsala, Sweden. PITCH STOP WORKSHOPS The Pitch Stop work-shop provided five emerging screenwriters with the opportunity to listen in and get feed-back on
Northern Script 2023 Alumni workshops in Denmark were held between 23rd of August & 5th of September. The workshop mentor was Christian Bergstrøm, a Danish filmmaker and external lecturer from University of Southern Denmark. WORKSHOPS IN THREE PHASES The process and development of the alumni scripts was arranged in three phases. First there was a
The Northern Script 2023 Alumni Programme had several online mentoring scriptwriting workshops during August & September in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland. All the local workshops were a huge success. After the mentoring workshops, the scripts were given to the Nordic Jury to be judged. The Nordic Jury used a common Northern Script Judging Criteria
NORTHERN SCRIPT WORKSHOPS The Northern Script 2023 alumni programme which unites young Nordic writers together has finally kicked off with several scriptwriting workshops starting all over the Nordic countries. This year Northern Script has online scriptwriting workshops in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland. Northern Script respects different Nordic languages and that is why all the
The Northern Script 2023 programme was trying something completely new this year. The programme only reached out to the alumni students from the previous years and was inviting the alumni to write a script to us by 2nd of August. All together, the programme got over 30 scripts from all over the Nordic countries. We