About

Two of us run it. Ingrid Sørbø moved to Leeds from Bergen in 2011 and works in translation. Danny Whitaker teaches film at a further education college. Neither of us is paid for any of this.

How it started

A conversation in 2016 about how a city the size of Leeds could go a whole year without a single Nordic film on a screen outside a festival. The first screening had eleven people in it, nine of whom we knew personally.

The name

A joke that stuck, and one we're mildly embarrassed by now — it suggests a narrower idea of Nordic culture than anything we actually show. Changing it would break ten years of people finding us, so it stays.

How it's run

An informal club, not a company or a charity. Membership money covers licences and hall hire, the accounts are pinned up at the venue, and there's a surplus most seasons that goes towards the projector.

Volunteers

Four people help regularly — door, tea, chairs, and the person who knows how to persuade the projector to talk to a laptop. We could always use another. It's two hours a month.

Contact

club@valhallareels.com. Ingrid reads it and answers within a few days.