Reminder, Press Invitation: Welcome to Stockholm International Film Festival’s Press Conference, October 13

Stockholm International Film Festival welcomes you to a Press Conference on Tuesday, October 13, where this year’s festival program will be presented.

Stockholm International Film Festival’s Program Director Beatrice Karlsson and Git Scheynius will present the program for this years’ festival, consisting of more than 130 films from over 66 countries including 13 international Academy Awards submissions. During the press conference, we present the directors and actors that will be visiting Stockholm International Film Festival.

Please note that the Press Conference will be held in Swedish. Interviews may be given in English after the conference by the moderators of the conference and the Rising Star nominees.

Three of our six nominees for the Zalando Rising Star Award will attend our pressconference:

Carla Sehn- Latest seen in Stammisar, Love & Anarchy and Vuxna människor. Sehn won her first movie award at the Sweden Short film Festival for best actress in the short film Half Brother (2017). Later on, she was nominated for best supporting actress for her role as Beata in the feature film Sagan om Karl-Bertil Johnssons julafton (2021).

Sara Shirpey-Latest seen in Spelskandalen, En mot en och Diorama. Shirpey has been seen in multiple film end TV productions, Topdog (2020)Lyckolandet (2022) to name a few. She is also starringin the upcoming feature film UFO Sweden (2022).

Solomon Njie- Latest seen in En mot en.Nije has a background in soccerand got noticed through his sketches on social media, which landed him a role asOusman in the TV series En mot en (2022). He is also starring in the upcoming season two of the TV series Topdog later this fall.

Stockholm International Film Festival 2022 will be taking place between 9 - 20 November.

Information about the Press Conference:

DATE: Thursday, October 13

LOCATION: Klarabiografen, Kulturhuset, Stockholm

TIME: 09:30 am (Swedish fika (coffee and cinnamon bun)from 09:00 am)

PRE-REGISTRATION IS MANDATORY, PLEASERSVP to pressekreterare@stockholmfilmfestival.se by Wednesday, October 12.

Make sure to apply for the Film Festival's press accreditation: here

Press accreditation can also be purchased at the Press Conference from 09:00 am

For more information on criteria for membership and acceptance please visit: www.stockholmfilmfestival.se/en/membership-and-tickets