DR Sales brings youth series, CPH:DOX selected docs to MIPTV

DR Sales’ team Freja Johanne Nørgaard Sørensen, Mette Bjerregaard, Camilla Saabye Krog, and exec producer in charge of documentaries Kim Christiansen, will be attending the online spring market MIPTV (April 12-16) with three youth and kids series, and four documentaries.

Introducing their drama slate, DR Sales’ executives said ”while we’ll soon be revealing more on our upcoming long-format drama series from both Denmark and Norway, we’ve embraced different formats and genres.

One of those is Guilt [Skyld], a witty 9-part short series about how the global pandemic has affected our relationships and what happens when we are stuck with just each other.”

The 9x5’ satire comedy is created by actors Emma Sehested Høeg and Magnus Haugaard, who also play the main roles. The series premiered on DR2+ last December.

• My Different Ways (Noget om Emma) is another short format series about a young couple‘s relationship put to test. Vitus falls madly in love with Emma, but hides to her the fact that his ex-girlfriend is pregnant and has decided to keep the baby against his will. It turns out that Emma is carrying a much bigger secret…The 7x25’ series is directed by Mads Mengel from a screenplay by Christian Bengtson. In the title roles are Kristine Kujath Thorp (Ninjababy, Doggystyle) and Mads Reuther (Kamikaze, Ride Upon The Storm). The series produced by Drive Studios for DR was nominated for a Robert Award 2021-Best Short Format.
• A Secret Gift (Julefeber) won Best Short Format TV series at this year’s Danish Robert awards. DR’s Christmas calendar series was co-created by seasoned director Natasha Arthy (The Rain, Fighter) and writer Rune Schjøtt Wieth (The Rain, A Perfectly Normal Family co-writer). The 24x25’ series is produced by Caroline Schlüter (Follow the Money), Camilla Hammerich (Borgen) & Rikke Tørholm Kofoed (Tidsrejsen). In the main adult roles are Joachim Fjelstrup (Greyzone, Ride Upon the Storm), and Bodil Jørgensen (The Seaside Hotel, The Idiots). Bjørn leads a normal teenage life, hangs out with his friends, and goes to school. But his body has started to have a life of its own. He experiences an exaggerated hair growth and an uncontrollable desire to dance, which is rather inconvenient when living in secrecy.
  

Top-lining DR Sales’ MIPTV documentary slate are three films selected for CPH:DOX.

• Raising a School Shooter by Frida Barkfors & Lasse Barkfors is produced by Final Cut for Real, with support from Nordisk Film & TV Fond. The third instalment in the directing duo’s trilogy on social stigma after Pervert Park and Death of a Child, follows various parents in the US with different backgrounds and experiences, but who have one thing in common: a child who has committed a school shooting. The film will compete in the Nordic:DOX and Politiken Danish DOX-Awards sections.
• Too Fast to Be True by Anna Thyrri and Stine Uldbjerg Hansen is produced by Lars Høj for Dokumentar kompagniet. The investigative documentary about an international cover up in a world leading sports environment will screen at CPH:DOX’s F:ACT section.
• From the Wild Sea by Robin Petré world premiered at the last Berlinale Generation section. The film produced by Malene Flindt Pedersen for Hansen & Pedersen centres on relationship between humans and animals seen from the animals' perspective. It will compete for the Politiken Danish DOX:Award.
• Everest Without Oxygene - The Ultimate Egotrip is directed by Jesper Ærø for Drive Studios. Mountain climber Rasmus dreams of becoming the first Dane to climb Mount Everest without oxygen.