The Working Committee

Peter

General Secretary

Peter I. Crawford is an anthropologist, publisher and filmmaker. He is professor of Visual Anthropology at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. He is publishing editor of Intervention Press (www.intervention.dk) and on the editorial board of the international journal AnthroVision. Peter is general secretary of NAFA and has been the chairman of the NAFA international film selection committee for many years. Together with Vladimir Bocev from Kratfest he is the main organiser of NAFA2025.

Vladimir Bocev

Local Oraganiser

Vladimir Bovec is a visual anthropologist (PhD), museologist, film director, screenplay writer and camera operator of ethnographic films. He is the author of over 25 films and 1500 hours of field materials. The founder and director of the KraTFest International Festival of Ethnological Documentary Film. Vladimir is working hard on the ground to organise this year’s festival.

Esme Andrews

Esme Andrews holds an MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Tromsø and an undergraduate degree in anthropology from the University of Aberdeen. Her first film, ‘The Wireless Set’ explores ageing and care on a Scottish island in the context of globalisation. She now works as an independent advocate in Edinburgh, sits on NAFA’s film selection committee and has been responsible for NAFA’s festival websites for the last few years.

Orsolya Veraart

Orsolya Veraart is a mother, visual anthropologist, ethnographic filmmaker, professional plant-dyer and weaver based in Transylvania, Romania. She is co-founder of CinéTrans, a company focused on ethnographic filmmaking. She is co-founder of Transylvanian Wildflowers, a fiber farm and circular textiles atelier. She has served a number of years as a NAFA film selection committee member. Currently she works as a fiber artist and editorial advisor.

Ilakkiya Simon

Ilakkiya Mariya Simon holds a Master’s in Visual Anthropology from UiT and a BA in Social Anthropology from the University of Bergen. Prior to getting into anthropology, she was a teacher and movement practitioner from different disciplines and arts. Her experiences with movement and her Sri Lankan ancestry are what underpins her anthropological interest exploring existential themes of home, belonging, identity, and the environment. “A Letter To Lanka” (2023) is her first film. She is in the working committee and the film selection committee of NAFA.

Carolina Nemethy

Carolina Nemethy is a visual anthropologist finalising her PhD at UiT – the Arctic University of Norway. She had been on last year’s organisational committee for 2024 and continues to be a member of the NAFA working committee. She is also a member of the NAFA editorial board and is actively engaged with broadening the NAFA network to emerging visual anthropologists internationally.

Åshild Sunde Feyling Thorsen

Åshild Sunde Feyling Thorsen is senior curator and PhD candidate at the University Museum of Bergen. She has an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a member of the NAFA working committee with responsibility for the NAFA Film Archive and archived documents. She is also a co-editor for Journal of Anthropological Films (JAF).

Emil Hvidtfeldt

Emil Hvidtfeldt is a visual anthropologist from Copenhagen with an MA from the University of Tromsø and a bachelors from the University of Copenhagen. His Master’s film “Dragging Chains” explores music, resistance, and decolonization through the Grenadian carnival tradition of Jab Jab, and has been screened at numerous ethnographic film festivals globally. Emil is the treasurer of NAFA.

Ralph Veraart

Ralph Veraart is a visual anthropologist, documentary / ethnographic filmmaker and rural development engineer. Ralph is Dutch and he has moved from The Netherlands to Transylvania more than twenty years ago. He is co-founder of CinéTrans, a company focused on ethnographic filmmaking. He is co-founder of Transylvanian Wildflowers, a fiber farm and circular textiles atelier. He is assistant general secretary of NAFA and coordinator of the Collective for Anthropological Film Festivals (CAFFE).

Knud Fischer-Møller

Cand.scient.anth., related to the Nordic Anthropological Film Association (NAFA) since the beginning of the 1980s, member of NAFA film selection committee several times, participation in a large number of international visual anthropological seminars and conferences as well as film festivals regarding ethnographic documentaries and visual anthropology.

Interests in the performative anthropology in particular in connection with the Danish mask tradition Twelfth Night, which I have researched through more than a decade in collaboration with many of the participants of the public event labeled as the informal-house-visit.

Currently working with personal recovery with a capital R and social change as well as mediating signs of sexual abuse in childhood and/or youth and late consequences of such injustices. That is developing a language in order to speak about the unspeakable.