Experts

Head of Archaeology and Ethnology Department, History Faculty of Institute of Humanities and Arts, Ural Federal university; corresponding member of Russian Academy of Sciences; doctor of history; professor, senior research officer at Institute of History and Archeology (RAS Ural Branch), editor of “Urals Historical Journal’. Author of 10 anthropology-related films – international and Russian film festival award winners. President of several film festivals including Russian Anthropological Film Festival and Northern Nomadic Film Festival.

Subject of presentation: “Ethnic and Cultural Heritage of the Arctic” (10 minutes max.

Erik Smith Meyer (1966) is a Norwegian film director, actor and playwright.

Today he is the Executive manager of The House of Performing Arts in Tromsø. Smith-Meyer has worked as an actor at the Total Theatre, the Company and the Wolves, Nordland Theatre, The National Theatre and Theatre Hålogaland. He has directed the films: Burnt Black (2003), Leaving the Lighthouse (2005) and Dead Cold (2008).As a playwright, he has been responsible for, among other things, Sleepy Head, Black-backed Gulls and others.

Director of the Nordic Youth Film Festival (NUFF).Born 1956 in Zülpich, near Cologne, Germany. Hermann Greuel studied social work in Fulda, Germany. Since 1980 involved in cultural project-work. Early in the 80s he initiated the street theatre project "Rainbow Submarine" and was touring with them for one year in Europe. He started working with film in 1985 and has been involved in several film productions. In 1987 he founded the film distribution OASE-Film. In 1989 he joined the UFA-AG as cinema manager and from 1992 - 2000 he was managing the art-cinema ACUD in Berlin. After moving to Tromsø, Norway, he worked at FOKUS-Kino as projectionist and joined the culture youth house TVIBIT in 2002 as project-manager. Hermann Greuel is founder of NUFF in 2002 and has initiated several international youth film projects as the youth film exchange program SCREEN and the project NUFF-global. Currently he is beside NUFF working with the pre-project for the Barents Youth Film Academy (BYFA) with partners from Arkhangelsk, Murmansk, Petrozavodsk, Luleå and Oulu. Hermann Greuel has been participating at several film-festival juries like Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Kinotavr Sochi, Cottbus Filmfestival, Crossing Europe Linz, YOUKI, Jugendfilmtage Zürich, Saarbrücken Filmfest and others.

Director of Communications and Public Relations at the University of Tromsø. Deputy Chairman of the Board of Polaria AS.

Broadcaster, TV-21 chief editor, founder of Northern Character Festival

Deputy Director of D.S.Lihachev Institute for Cultural and Natural Heritage

Nina S.Kiseleva

Director of Pomorie State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company

Editor in Chief of Pomorie State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company