At the 23rd Reykjavík International Film Festival (RIFF), we caught up with filmmakers participating in the pilot edition of the Arctic Script Lab, a new script-development initiative organised as part of the festival’s Industry Days in partnership with the Nuuk International Film Festival, bringing together emerging Nordic filmmakers to develop their feature-film projects under the mentorship of Icelandic filmmaker Dagur Kári.

Norwegian-based filmmaker Laurens Pérol introduces Electrified, which he is developing with Joshua Jádi. Danish-German filmmaker Hilke Rönnfeldt discusses Goods, while Finnish documentary director Elina Talvensaari presents Sokli (working title). Finally, filmmakers Mo Tan and Akku Kristensen introduce Aviliaq, a Greenlandic-Polish fiction project.