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| Sonora Broka in Sodankylä, 15 June 2019. Photo: Sami Sorasalmi / Midnight Sun Film Festival. |
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| Sonora Broka. |
Mia Öhman (Midnight Sun Film Festival): "Sonora Broka has studied audiovisual culture in the Latvian Academy of Culture and worked since 2005 in the National Film Centre of Latvia. She is the artistic director of the Riga International Film Festival founded in 2014. The festival first took place when Riga was the European Capital of Culture. The event has since become annual and grown into a sizeable and comprehensive arena of European film and a presenter of Latvian film industry, that provides a meeting place for the viewers and the makers. The 2018 festival had 22 000 people taking part."
"Sonora Broka values the chance given to the movie audience to take part in events, such as in lectures about movies, and see all kinds movies and talk about them in an environment promoting the movie culture. In the festival the viewer is free to get a cross section of the indigenous movies made during the year, or see what has been made in the Nordic countries. According to Broka, children’s movies are important in raising new generations of viewers, and the festival is a natural environment for it. If a child can sit and watch a movie in a theatre and then gets to talk about what they saw and felt, he or she may later be able to accept something other than just gift-wrapped Hollywood productions."
"As a festival director Broka especially enjoys getting to watch the reactions of the audience and witness a movie finding its viewer. Broka is an expert and a supporter for Baltic movie culture, and in Sodankylä she holds master classes about Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian movies from the 1960s to this day." Mia Öhman
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