The winner of the Golden Chair for Best International Short Film is awarded NOK 50.000, and qualifies to be considered for an Oscar® nomination for Best Short Film, Live Action or Animated, provided it meets all requirements set by The Academy® for all nominated films.
Alvilde Horjen Naterstad is a cinematographer with a master’s degree from the National Film and TV School in England and a certificate in film from Nordland College of Art and Film. She has filmed a number short films, documentaries, music videos, and drama series, and is currently working on her first feature film, to be released this fall. Her films have won many awards, including a BAFTA for best short animation (A Love Story, 2016), the Gullruten for best photo TV drama for Kids in Crime 1 (2023) and the Golden Chair for best music video Impro på Økern (2023) in Grimstad, amongst others.
Alvilde is also vice president of the Norwegian Society of Cinematographers (FNF).
Varun Raman – As well as being Director of New Shorts at London Short Film Festival, Varun Raman is also Assistant Director of Short Film Programming at Fantastic Fest, and a Programming Associate for Live Action Narrative Shorts at SXSW. He’s also a filmmaker – his film Man or Tree won the Lab Competition Student Jury Prize at Clermont-Ferrand – and he currently has a BFI NETWORK short in post.
Ivar Aase is a director and screenwriter, graduated from the Norwegian Film School. His short films have screened at several international film festivals such as Tribeca, Clermont-Ferrand and Palm Springs, including Complications, which won the Golden Chair and the Hourglass Award at the Norwegian Short Film Festival in 2023.
Bartholomew Sammut is a Maltese-Australian, non-binary film curator living in Berlin. They began by writing and producing short films, and then worked for several programs at SBS Television Australia, namely Eatcarpet, a late night program dedicated to screening smart, experimental and queer short films.
In 2006 they founded the XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin, which they directed for 15 years until 2021. In 2009 Bartholomew began working for the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival and is part of the program selection committee.
In 2019 they became the Program Manager and the TEDDY Award Coordinator for Panorama, as well as becoming a member of the Berlinale Series selection committee.
Bartholomew established the Queer Short Film Fund in 2015, an initiative of the XPOSED Queer Film Festival to help foster and support queer film production and development in Germany.
Geir Ørnholt is an editor from Bergen, now based in Oslo. Ørnholt graduated from The Norwegian Film School in 2014, and has since edited several award-winning drama series, including Nudes (Liv Barbosa Blad, Erika Calmeyer), Nach (Ernst De Geer, Fanny Ovesen) and Nede (Siri Seljeseth).
He has also worked on the feature films Gritt (Ionje Søimer Guttormsen), My Wonderful Stranger (Johanna Pykkö) and the upcoming Explosions of the Heart (Yen).
He cut the short film Play Schengen (Gunhild Enger), which won the award for best Norwegian film at Minimalen Film Festival in 2022.
He is a member of the editor collective Klippegangen and has also worked as a film coordinator for Bergen International Film Festival. klippegangen.no