Far North Living Lab made the youth film festival NUFF global

When Palestinian film makers were unable to come to NUFF to watch the screening of their films, Far North Living Lab helped NUFF to reach to Gaza in stead

The Nordic Youth Film Festival (NUFF) in Tromsø June 04-13 2010 had a young palestinian film maker on the program. He was not able to travel out of Gaza, and was therefore unfortunately not able to participate in the festival. He was invited together with other young Palestinian film makers.

Far North Living Lab made parts of the festival available by using experimental technology from the P2P-Next project (http://p2p-next.org). In this way the festival could be attended from behind the blockade of Gaza. The Palestinians were not allowed to arrange a meeting to show the festival locally either, but the peer-to-peer based distribution allowed them to follow the opening and closing sessions from their own homes. The quality of the broadcast was reported as excellent.

The event was also available worldwide on the Internet. The quality of both sound and image was very good, so that all with a PC and a relatively good Internet connection could participate, also with good quality full screen view.

There were about than 1400 visits from a total of 81 countries, of these we had over 1100 unique visitors. All continents were represented, but most visits were from Northern Europe and North America.

When we look at the sources, we see that 40% of the visitors came via TorrrentFreak, 12% via Facebook and 10% via NUFF. 26% of the visitors went directly to the page, meaning that they received the link from someone. This indicates that social networks might play a very important part in promoting such events, as only half of them arrived via more traditional promotion. There were a few hundred people that returned to the site on the closing seremony, which indicates an interest in the content too, not only in the technology - we thus reached actual end users!

A map showing locations of site visits