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24th April 2012

VFS Presents The 4th Annual Women In Games Scholarship

VFSVancouver Film School is pleased to present this year’s Women in Games Scholarship to Kristina Soltvedt Wiik of Norway. The first of its kind in the world, this scholarship provides full tuition for an aspiring female game designer to VFS’s acclaimed one-year Game Design program.

Wiik, currently a journalist for Gamereactor Magazine, is a longtime writer of gaming fiction, and is ready to embrace the challenge of furthering narrative design in interactive entertainment.Kristin Soltvedt Wiik

“My initial reaction to receiving the Women in Games Scholarship was disbelief,” says Wiik. “It is a tremendous privilege to be awarded such a coveted scholarship and I can’t help but be excited at the possibility of realizing my dreams. I’m really looking forward to the year ahead of me, and the ensuing opportunities that VFS will surely offer.”

The scholarship was established by Vancouver Film School to encourage women, and create more opportunities for those wishing to pursue game design as a career, in a field traditionally dominated by men – around 80% according to a recent Game Developer survey.

“As always, I am extremely impressed with the quality of applications for the Women in Games Scholarship,” says Dave Warfield, Head of Game Design at VFS. “Our past winners have proven to be exceptional students and already are making a positive impact in the game industry as designers. With what I have seen from our latest winner, the future of gaming looks very promising!”

Previous winners include Shannon Lee of Toronto, now at BigPark Games, Annie Dickerson from Washington, DC, currently with East Side Games, and Larissa Baptista from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil who will graduate from VFS this June and was recently profiled by CBC.

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