Kosmorama
| Location | Trondheim, Norway |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2005 |
| Language | International |
| Website | http://www.kosmorama.no |
Kosmorama is the annual international film festival in the city of Trondheim, Norway first held in 2005.
The word “kosmorama” (in English: cosmorama) means an exhibition of perspective pictures of (usually) landmarks of the world. In other words: a display of different perspectives and vistas from around the World.
The film festival has been named Kosmorama after one of Trondheim’s first big cinemas. Kosmorama Theater was founded in 1910 by Paul Kraüsslich. In addition to running the cinema, Kraüsslich travelled all around the country, filming everything from the fisheries in Lofoten to the World Speed Skating Championship. In 1906, he filmed the coronation of King Haakon VII of Norway in the Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim, and was able to show his film of that event just three hours later to the public. In 1908, he had the additional honour of showing films for the Royal Family at The Royal Palace Stiftsgården in Trondheim.
This energetic and industrious film pioneer has been one of Kosmorama's prime sources of inspiration in striving to create a new Kosmorama, nearly 100 years later.
The Kosmorama Film Festival is owned and run by the limited company Filmfest Trondheim AS, which is a subsidiary of Trondheim Kino AS. Trondheim Kino is entirely owned by the Municipality of Trondheim, which during the autumn of 2003 took the initiative to establish a film festival. The festival’s goal is to strengthen the film medium in the region of Middle Norway and to contribute to innovations in the intersection between film, culture and business life.
In addition to being a film festival for the public of the region, Kosmorama strives to be an interesting and exciting arena for the professional regional development of film art in every form. Being a new film festival, Kosmorama has a clearly defined profile standing on the four pillars of Film, Festivities, Talent and Technology.
Instead of employing one chief of programming, Kosmorama employs the permanent services of three film curators, responsible for their own film program which together constitutes the main program. The curators are Eli Gjerde, Ola Lund Renolen and Sindre Kartvedt.
Kosmorama Film Festival has a number of competitions and awards. There is a prize for new talents who pitch their ideas for a film to a professional jury in front of an audience. The winner of the competition will receive 100,000 Norwegian kroner in development support, and be one step closer to realize their dream of producing their own film.
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