Dvoted is the new website launched by the Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Film Institutes, the Icelandic Film Centre and Koulukino-Skolbio in Finland - with support from the Nordic Council of Ministers - to promote and support up-and-coming talented Nordic filmmakers aged 15-20.

The SFI is responsible for project management (in particular, distribution of submitted films and copyrights), but Dvoted's main office is based at the DFI in Copenhagen, with editorial staff in each Nordic country.

Available in the five Nordic languages as well as in English, the website offers three main services: in the Arena section, users can upload, watch and discuss films; in Mentors, they can get feedback from professionals, whose current mentors include Aleksi Bardy (Finnish scriptwriter/ producer) , Roar Uthaug (director of successful debut film Cold Prey) and Lena Hansson Varhegyi (film consultant at the DFI). In Academy, they can receive updated news and information on film production, education and international festivals.

The website can also be used as a forum for discussions or as a publishing and distribution tool. "Dvoted wants to identify and develop the talent and skills of every young person who has the ambition to tell stories in moving images", says the production team. Other organisations involved in the project include Station Next in Denmark, the Finnish Film Foundation and Mediefabrikken in Norway.

For more information, just click on: www.dvoted.net

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