RIFF MAGAZINE 2020

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EDITORIAL Dear All We welcome you to RIFF; R.E.D. INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL -dance-art-cinema-.

This annual festival is celebrating its FIFTH EDITION and was founded in July 2015. It is located on a farm overlooking Eina Lake, just outside Oslo. Surrounded by breathtaking Norwegian countryside.

During this very special time due to COVID-19 that we are experiencing, we have changed the RIFF 2020 format, it will therefore be celebrated in two versions.

FIRST FORMAT: The festival is celebrated on July 3rd, 4th, 5th, & 10th, at the R.E.D. farm featuring film programs and screenings, along with live dance, music, shooting stars and art exhibitions. Our new Drive-In Cinema in the R.E.D. FIELD gives us space to follow the government regulations, keeping everybody safe and healthy.

SECOND FORMAT: We are distributing this magazine as as a possibility to have a virtual festival. Inside the magazine we offer links to all* the selected films of RIFF FIFTH EDITION. The links will be available throughout the month of July 2020.

The festival’s mission is to build a bridge between the different fields of performing and visual arts, and the film industry. The festival aims to show films that have a strong element of movement and dance including interdisciplinary expressions such as screendance, art films, to the more traditional and conventional short films, full feature films and documentaries.

Diversity is one of the most important principles of the festival, so for this fifth edition we chose powerful, visual, poetic, and provocative films, as well as realistic short films, humanist, humoristic, ecological, dance-theater films, documentaries about dance and art, animations, and some surprises.

Our international jury will choose the winners who will get a residency at R. E. D. in 2021 or when this emergency is over. We’ll publish the Award results on our internet site by July 11th.

R.E.D. (Residency Eina Danz), is an international, national and regional arena for arts and culture, running with a full year interdisciplinary residency program, and a production house for dance and film.

During RIFF SECOND EDITION we founded Einawood: As the Hollywood sign was erected in Los Angeles in 1923, Einawood was founded as a neighborhood where the motion picture industry is emerging. EINAWOOD sign was inaugurated in Eina, Norway, on July 20th, 2017. The event was led 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.

See the festival trailer HERE .

Stay Safe and Let’s Keep Art Alive.

Please enjoy!!!

Ella Fiskum.

*Due to authorization rights, the online access is restricted on films Replay, Echo & Anna.

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CONTRIBUTION ELLA FISKUM (NO) - FESTIVAL DIRECTOR Ella hails from Trondheim, Norway. She was educated at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, under Natalia Papina in St. Petersburg, and at The John Cranko Schule in Stuttgart. After working extensively as a contemporary dancer, she founded Ella Fiskum Danz working both as a choreographer, dancer, director, writer, and producer. With 28 years of experience, producing over 17 full length stage productions and 11 films, she has received international awards and toured the world. In 2012 Fiskum relocated to a farm outside of Oslo for the purpose of building up R.E.D. - an International Centre for the Arts, with an Art Residency Program, and a production house for film and dance, which she is running. R.E.D. became a Regional Competence Center for Dance in 2018. She received the Vestre Toten Culture Prize in 2019.

Fiskum founded the annual film festival RIFF in 2015. www.reddanz.com YOLANDA M. GUADARRAMA (MX) - RIFF CURATOR Yolanda is Mexican, started dancing in 1985, has been a choreographer since 1990. Beginning in 2007 she has created 16 screendance shorts and some of them have been part of the official selection of many international festivals around the world. She won an honorary mention with her piece ANIMAL ENFERMIZO (Ailing Animal) in the Mexican videodance prize Agite y Sirva, 2015; and a prize for Best Experimental Film in Euroasia International MF Festival, for her film Potato Eaters, in 2018. She directs the International Screendance Festival Movimiento en Movimiento in Mexico. She founded the festival Motion in Berlin, 2008. Yolanda is Member of Red Iberoamericana de Vodeodanza (REDIV), and has been curator in RIFF for 5 years. www.yolandamguadarrama.com MADELINE WOOD (FR) - DESIGNER AND MARKETING MANAGER Madeline is a French visual artist and performer involved in many art contexts such as contemporary dance, performance, drawing (among others). She is also co-founder of the publishing house Les Pinatas and curator for Microscopies, a festival for independent publishers. She is currently writing for the dance critic review Les Démêlées and working with various artists, collectives and companies. She joined RIFF team in 2017. www.madelinewood.fr HEDIYEH AZMA (IR) - RIFF GUEST COORDINATOR Hediyeh is an Iranian award-winning dance artist based in Oslo. She has 24-year experience in the field of Iranian court dance. She has also trained in modern, contemporary and classical ballet. Hediyeh was awarded ‘Best Performer’ and ‘Best Director’ at the Iranian Movement Festival. She holds an MA in Dance Anthropology from a joint program by NTNU(NO)/Roehampton(UK)/SZTE (HU)/ UCA(FR). Recently, her screen-dance film was selected by different International festivals around the globe. She performed in RIFF in 2019, and joined the RIFF team in 2020.

YIKAI LUC WU (CN/US) - RIFF ASSISTANT COORDINATOR AND DESIGNER (MAGAZINE) Originally from China, Yikai Luc Wu is a film director and cinematographer based in LA who works in dance and narrative films. With a strong personal tempo, Luc works to capture irrational human emotion and analyze the rational logistic behind every physical movement. His works have been presented at Utah dance film festival and 40 North Dance Film Festival. He holds an MFA degree in film directing from California Institute of the Arts. He joined the RIFF team in 2018. www.yikai-wu.com

JURY MARGARET WILLIAMS (UK) Margaret has made many award-winning dance and music-drama films. Her respected and internationally successful work has always taken a new and original approach, with an individual creative vision at the heart of all her films. www.margaretwilliamsdirector.com MARI NØRSTEGÅRD TOMREN (NO) Advisor in one of Norway’s three regional film funds, Filminvest. Been in the film industry since 2005, working in the marketing-department in Norway’s leading cinema chain, and been the Cinema-manger in Lillehammer for the past 6 years. Experienced board member, covering film festival, film fund and a national alliance of cinemas.

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