The youth centre Tvibit opened on June 8, 2000. The house is mainly a cultural centre for youth between the ages 15 and 25. Tvibit has also an information centre for youth. Tvibit works with youth from a cultural perspective. We see youth as a resource with a lot to contribute to others and to the city in which they live. We are also convinced that the effect the young people get from working on interesting projects and culture is positive. The Tvibit philosophy is based on participation and project oriented work. The youth are part of the decision-making process, and they carry out much of what goes on in the house themselves. They are encouraged to realise their own ideas and bring them to life. Adults are not allowed to control the house without input from the youth, nor are they to help them excessively. The youths are active end learn to be independent human beings.

The film house Tvibit
January 2003, the film house Tvibit opened in brand new offices. It is a place for production of youth’s own movies. Here you can come with your cool and crazy ideas, book cameras and get information about how to get started. During the year, people pop in with their school projects, their documentaries, fiction films or TV-series. We also provide a cultural offer to schools. The film house Tvibit will participate in the creation of Tromsø Film City, by helping the young, aspiring filmmakers and by being a place of production where one can make one’s movie from the stage of ideas to the finished product. With final scripts being in the finish for a project called Filmfangst, the film house is now planning the production of the first feature film made by youths. 

Filmfangst
Tvibit is going to make the first feature film by youths from Northern Norway. Through this project we want to be a part of the making of a new Northern Norway and further develop a film environment in Tromsø ant the northern region. We’re doing this because we believe we are living in a fantastic part of the country full of resources and possibilities, where we can create our own stories. At the same time we know that culture and film have huge impact on our possibilities, choices, plans in life and conceptions. The focus of this project is more on the process than the result, but aims to do a real shoot with a finished film as the result. By a continuing dialogue between youths and professionals, we try to develop a “learning by doing”-mentality. Through workshops and help from professional advisors, the participant writers have during the last years learned how to write and develop a script. Several ideas have been developed into full feature scripts since the project was presented at TIFF 2004.
We are now in the painstaking process of financing two screenplays. It’s a long and troublesome road, but it’s all looking rather good.