Film Development Bergen / Bergen Filmutvikling is a creative collective set up in the 1990s under the leadership of Hans Kr. Bukholm. This collective compromised talented individuals with backgrounds in cinematography, still photography, scriptwriting, history, printed media illustration, television, journalism and graphic design.

Throughout the years BF have been involved in numerous projects. One such that bears special mention is the 70mm widescreen film «Svalbard – Arctic Seasons» (23 minutes, Technicolor), which is the recipient of several international awards.

Triple Academy award winner cinematographer Freddie Young after seeing Svalbard Arctic Seasons: “Pictorially very impressive…”

Svalbard – Arctic Seasons

The Graveyard By The Sea

Sea sequence – The Potato Fairway

Lofoten – The Last Viking

Pilot Thor Iversen – the unknown arctic pioneer