RIFF - FESTIVAL - NORWAY

Dear Art Lovers

During this special time we’ve been experiencing with COVID-19, we’ll continue celebrating our dance-art-cinema festival in 2022, in two versions for our upcoming RIFF; R.E.D. International Film Festival, 7th edition.

FIRST VERSION: a virtual festival where we will launch our on-line RIFF MAGAZINE with a month access to the films of RIFF SEVENTH EDITION Official Selection.
We will keep on celebrating the RIFF Award, where the creators might win a residency at R.E.D. for 2023 or when this emergency is completely over. See more information at: https://reddanz.com

SECOND VERSION: RIFF 2022 will celebrate a face-to-face festival in our venue R.E.D., at the farm in Einawood, for those who shall enjoy our programs in presence, on the different spaces on our farm. From July 8th to July 10th. Note: there will just be allowed a limited amount of audience, and we will, at all times, follow the government regulations* keeping everybody safe in healthy distance. (*Subject to change.)

Thanks for your interest in the festival. We specially thank creators participation in RIFF OPEN CALL.

Stay Safe and Let's Keep Art Alive!!!

Ella Fiskum,
RIFF: R.E.D. INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL —dance-art-cinema.
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RIFF: R.E.D. INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
-dance-art-cinema-

RIFF SEVENTH EDITION will take place from July 8th to July 10th, 2022.
This festival was born in July 2015. It is settled on a farm overlooking Eina Lake, just outside Oslo. Surrounded by breathtaking Norwegian countryside.
Its mission is to build a bridge between the different fields of performing, as well as visual art, and the film industry; hence the subtitle: dance-art-cinema. The festival aims to show films that have a strong element of movement and dance including expressions such as screendance, art films, more traditional and conventional short films and full feature films.

We are aiming to develop RIFF as an important arena to show films of excellence; a platform to give workshops and master talks; a place for special guests and public to share thoughts, knowledge and experiences.
We have celebrated RIFF PRELUDE EDITION in 2015, RIFF FIRST EDITION in 2016 and so on. During the SIXTH EDITION in 2021 we showed 33 films from all genres at our main venue, the R.E.D. ARENA. We usually build a Drive-In-Movie-Theatre, an outdoor cinema in the outskirts of the farm in the woods where we screened some feature films on a huge screen at midnight.

During the seven years that the festival has been running, we have offered live performances, outdoor screening, shooting stars exhibitions, concerts, red carpet paths, panel conversations, laboratories, festival-painter exhibitions, and much much more.

The award winners list in 2021 is:
Short Films: art-dance-cinema
“The End of Originality”, by Laura Zayan. Norway.
“Contemplation of Catastrophe”, by Nayeli Benhumea. Mexico.
“Swans in stone”, by Solveig Leinan-Hermo. Norway.
“Dante Sonata”, by Margaret Williams. United Kingdom.

Long films:
Feature film: “AVIVA”, by Boaz Yakin. United States.
Documentary: “Butterfly Dresses”, by Camille Auburtin. France.

HONORARY MENTIONS
Short films: art-dance-cinema:
“Shivering wall”, by Tseng Yu Chin. Taiwan.
Documentary:
“TRIXIE”, by Bastien Genoux. Switzerland.

**AUDIENCE AWARDS: “I”, by Fabio Cataldo, Paride Caricato, Valentina Marrocco. Italy.

Jury: Caroline Kløvrud (NO), Cecilie Lindeman Steen (NO). The jury also consists of curator Yolanda M. Guadarrama and director Ella Fiskum.

EINAWOOD
As the Hollywood sign was erected in Los Angeles in 1923, Einawood was founded as a neighbourhood where motion picture industry is emerging. EINAWOOD sign was inaugurated in Eina, Norway, on July 20th, 2017. The event was leaded by Ella Fiskum, Yolanda M. Guadarrama and Madeline Wood, RIFF Team: director, curator and visual creator of the sign. It is a playful action and also it is reality, as everything happens in the motion picture world.

RIFF is based at R.E.D. (Residency Eina Danz), which is an international, national and regional arena for arts and culture, running with a full year residency program, production house and stage for dance, film, art and interdisciplinary cultural expressions, located at Nyland farm in Eina, Norway. It has been recognized as a Regional Competence Centre for Dance since 2018, founded by Arts Council Norway, Norwegian Film Institute and Oppland County. It is located one hour and ten minutes from Oslo.
R.E.D. was founded by Ella Fiskum in 2012-2013.