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- Festival Director and co-founder of Stockholm International Film Festival since 1990. The Stockholm International Film Festival is one of the leading competitive film festivals in Europe with over 200 films from 60 countries screened each year in November. An impressive list of filmmakers and actors have attended the festival, including Dennis Hopper, Lauren Bacall, Gena Rowlands, Charlotte Rampling, Susan Sarandon, Ang Lee, David Cronenberg, Roman Polanski, Terry Gilliam, David Lynch, Elia Kazan and Wong Kar-Wai.
Since its start the festival has focused on bringing forth and supporting new talents through competitions and scholarships. A third of the films selected for the festival are made by a debuting director and only directors who have made less than 3 films are selected for the competition. In 2011 "The Stockholm Film Festival Feature Film Award" was inaugurated which funds a feature film for an unestablished female director.
The aim for Stockholm International Film Festival is to broaden the selection of films in Sweden with creative new films of high quality and offer the visitor an orientation within modern film. With seminars, opportunities to meet actors and filmmakers during the festival, all means are given to make the film experience come full circle. Git Scheynius received the International Director Award for her work with the Stockholm International Film Festival at the International Film Festival Summit in Las Vegas in 2007.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Stockholm International Film Festival
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