As one of the 2008 Fargo Film Festival co-chairs, Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson brings with her a wealth of experience. Kyja’s movies have screened in festivals and galleries in Asia, Europe and North America since the late 1990s. Her work has also been featured at the Walker Art Center, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the European Media Arts Festival to name a few. She is currently working on an experimental documentary, which she shot in Iceland with the support of a Fulbright Fellowship, and she is also expanding her series of animated shorts, Portraits & Testimonies.

Kyja is an Assistant Professor in the Film Studies Department at Minnesota State University Moorhead and was the recipient of a 2007 Bush Artist Fellowship. In addition to her responsibilities as the chair of the Experimental and Animation category, Kyja hopes to expand the scope of film and video for Fargo-Moorhead audiences by exhibiting work that challenges traditional form and technique to better articulate concepts, stories and creative vision.

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