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Call for submissions 2024

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 
We are pleased to announce a call for submissions for the 2024 HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award.
Over the past years, we have celebrated talented composers from the five Nordic Countries and listened to their wonderful music. We look forward to continuing this tradition in 2024 and to honoring excellence in composing. Therefore, we are asking composers working in the Nordic countries and being a member of the national Nordic collecting society to submit their best Film & TV Scores. The composition must be for a narrative feature, documentary, or TV series released between July 21st, 2022, and July 21st, 2023. (The release date stated on the official IMDB page of the submission)
The submission deadline is October 1st.

 Your submission must include the following:
-Full name & contact info of the composer (e-mail & phone number)
-Membership number of the national collecting society
-Link to screener with English subtitles
-Link to the IMDB page of the submission
submit your score

What happened NFMD 2023

 
The winner of the HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award 2023 is Norwegian composer Jørund Fluge Samuelsen for his score to Hallvar Witzø’s ’Alle hater Johan’ 
Read more here

Anna-mari Kähärä, Filip Leyman, Martin Dirkov, Jørund Fluge Samuelsen, Eðvarð Egilsson, Anna von Hauswolf. Foto: Thomas Kolbein Bjørk Olsen, Berlinkontoret.no
Anna-Mari Kähärä, Filip Leyman, Martin Dirkov, Jørund Fluge Samuelsen, Eðvarð Egilsson, Anna von Hauswolf, Silke Lange, Christine Hals.
​Foto 1-5: Thomas Kolbein Bjørk Olsen, Berlinkontoret.no | Picture 6: Foto Frank Michaelsen 
Erica Procunier, Anna-Maria Kähärä, Jørund Fluge Samuelsen, dr. Yati Durant, Johan Ramstrøm, Einar Trygvason, Halldor Krogh, Mons Niklas Schak, Tuomas Nikkinin. Foto: Frank Michaelsen

What is Nordic Film Music Days? ​

  • An annual event during Berlinale – Berlin International Film Festival
  • A presentation of the quality of Nordic film and media-music
  • A network with focus on strengthening the artistic and musical interaction between the Nordic countries.
  • An Increasing of Nordic film composers’ access to the European markets.
  • A strengthening of the Nordic film position in EU.
  • A space for Nordic creatives to connect with global decision makers for international collaborations.

​​Nordic Film Music Days creates a space to communicate, start future collaborations, educate and to network during the festival.

For the past years HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award & Nordic Film Music Days at Nordische Botschaften in Berlin have become a fixture on the event calendar during BERLINALE – Berlin International Film Festival. It’s a unique opportunity to spotlight Nordic composers and to celebrate their music during this prestigious festival.

PREVIOUS EDITION: Saturday Feb. 18.- Sunday Feb. 19, 2023 - Check out what happened here.


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About HARPA & NFMD
Since 2010, Nordic composers have joined forces to put focus on Nordic Film Music and Nordic Film with the HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award.
From 2016 the HARPA Nordic Film Music Days and the HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award have been taking place at the Nordische Botschaften in Berlin in the same time as the Berlinale film festival.
HARPA Nordic Film Music Days and Composer Award is supported by Nordisk Film & TV Fond and Nordische Botschaften. 


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Partners in HARPA Nordic Film Music Days 2024
  • Skap (The Swedish Society of Songwriters, Composers & Authors)
  • FST (Föreningen svenske tonsättere)
  • Music Finland
  • Finnish Music Creators FMC
  • STEF (Icelandic Collective Rights Management Society)
  • NOPA (Norwegian Society of Composers and Lyricists)
  • BFM (Danish Organization for Film- and Media Composers)​ ​

Collaborators 2024: ​
  • Sound Track Cologne
  • EFM (European Film Market)
  • Jecheon International Film & Music Festival 
  • Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
  • Riga International Film Festival
  • Vilnius Film Festival & Kino Pavasaris Distribution
  • Nordic Music Days & Glasgow Film Festival
  • IMMSANE,  The International Media Music and Sound Arts Network in Education
  • Orchestral Tools
  • GENELEC

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  • Nordic Film Music Days
  • NFMD 365
  • HARPA winners & nominees
    • 2023 WHAT HAPPENED
    • 2022 WHAT HAPPENED
    • 2021 WHAT HAPPENED
    • 2020 WHAT HAPPENED >
      • 2020 NFMD fotos
    • 2019 WHAT HAPPENED >
      • 2019 HARPA
      • 2019 NFMD fotos
      • 2019 composers
      • SPEAKERS & PANELISTS 2019
    • 2018 WHAT HAPPENED >
      • 2018 HARPA
      • 2018 NFMD
    • 2017 WHAT HAPPENED >
      • 2017 ...from Cannes
      • 2017 ... Seminars from Cannes
      • 2017 HARPA
      • 2017 Impressions from Cannes
  • Composers
    • DENMARK COMPOSER
    • FINLAND COMPOSER
    • ICELAND COMPOSER
    • NORWAY COMPOSER
    • SWEDEN COMPOSER
  • Press releases
  • Contact & partners