Bard Ydén joined Skeive Filmer, now Oslo/Fusion International Film Festival in 2003 and became its Executive and Artistic Director in 2007. He is editor and senior programmer at the Academy Award-qualifying Norwegian Short Film Festival, has programmed and consulted for several international festivals, and has extensive jury experience. He’s co-founder of The Faroe Islands’ Minority Film Festival, part of the EFM Startups team at Berlinale, and in 2022 he joined the New Dawn international film fund advisory committee.