Seminar organisers
POEM Foundation
The POEM Foundation is an audiovisual production resource centre. The foundation provides grants for scriptwriting, as well as interest-free loans and investment funding for development and production. In addition, the POEM Foundation allocates funding for projects developing the operating environment and entrepreneurial activity or services in the audiovisual sector. Both North Finland Film Commission and FilmArc projects function as a part of POEM Foundation.
The North Finland Film Commission
The North Finland Film Commission (NFFC) develops contacts and the infrastructure of the local film industry to increase interest in and the possibilities of producing films in the North of Finland. The NFFC helps international productions searching for locations and providing information on local services and companies in the North of Finland. NFFC also helps the production companies to get shooting permissions and to recruit local crew members. The NFFC arranges two seminars a year aiming to introduce the local crew members to producers and to provide education for the crew members.
The FilmArc project
FilmArc project aims to create a stronger business for film and other visual formats in Northern Scandinavia. Project has chosen 40 production service or commercial companies that are working with film, games, web etc. from the FilmArc region (Northern Norway, Sweden and Finland). These companies will attend master classes and workshops that the project is arranging with high class professionals; the Focus on Asia is one of the master classes. The project is a co-operation between three Cine-regio members, POEM Foundation (Finland), Film i Västerbotten, Filmpool Nord (Sweden) and FilmCamp (Norway).
