10/01/2003

The Norwegian Film Institute (NFI) has chosen one of the country’s most talented young actors, Kristoffer Jones, as their Shooting Star to be presented at the 2003 Berlinale.
The NFI has been a member of European Film Promotion (EFP), an umbrella organisation of various European film institutes and export companies from around 20 countries, since 1998. EFP created the Shooting Stars event six years ago at the Berlin Film Festival as a showcase for promoting the best and brightest young European acting talents. The event guarantees those actors selected direct access to the world’s media, film industries, and raises their international profiles by means of press conferences, and meetings with directors, producers and casting agents.
Kristoffer Jones became popular after starring in a number of TV series and feature films and his latest film, Himmelfall is currently a huge hit at the Norwegian box office and has been seen to date by some 75,000 people in its first five weeks on general release.

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