Four series, one fiction film and a documentary receive NOK 9 million from the Fund

PRODUCTION SUPPORT

Drama Series

• Cry Wolf
  Format: 6x45’
  Grant: NOK 2,500,000
  Recipient: Nordic Drama Queens, Sweden
  Producers: Josefine Tengblad, Eiffel Mattson
  Main writer: Oskar Söderlund
  Concept director: Jesper Ganslandt
  Commissioner: TV4
  Logline: A dead wolf. A drug deal gone wrong. An assassin of rarely seen skill. Hannah Wester, a middle-aged police detective in Haparanda, finds herself on the precipice of chaos when the small border town becomes the centre of a chain of brutal events.
  
  The anticipated new crime thriller series is based on Rosenfeldt’s first novel under his own name and inaugural book in the Haparanda series. The series currently in post-production has received co-financing from TV4, Fifth Season, ZDF and Filmpool Nord, with support from the Swedish production incentives Tillväxtverket. Production service are provided by Ahil Films in Lithuania. The premiere on TV4 in Sweden is scheduled for July 2024.
• Felix & Klara
  Format: 10x30’
  Grant: NOK 1,500,000
  Recipient: Mystery, Iceland
  Producers: Davíð Óskar Ólafsson, Árni Filippusson
  Writers: Ragnar Bragason, Jón Gnarr
  Concept director: Ragnar Bragason
  Commissioner: RÚV
  Logline: A retired customs officer is forced to move with his wife to an assisted living facility for the elderly. While his wife becomes liberated in the new surroundings he searches for a purpose in life and small things become major issues.
  
  The director of the hit series Prisoners, The Shift trilogy series, and Metalhead is currently in soft prep with his next series, co-financed by DR, NRK, Yle and SVT.
• The Revenge
  Format: 8x45’
  Grant: NOK 1,200,000
  Recipient: Moskito Television, Finland
  Producer: Mari Kinnunen
  Writers: Matti Kinnunen (head-writer) and Mikko Reitala (episodic writer)
  Concept director: Matti Kinnunen
  Key cast: Pyry Kähkönen, Matleena Kuusniemi, Elias Salonen, Anna Böhm
  Commissioner: MTV
  Logline: In the story, the viewer is placed in the middle of a mother/son power game. Hiding behind false identities, the young and handsome Jesse (Kähkönen) returns to Helsinki after years spent abroad. He is driven by a burning wish to seek justice, heritage belonging to him and to revenge. One of the key backdrops for the series is a multinational security company, Ametist Security, which vows to fight the ever-growing fear and lack of security in society.
  
  The new series from the creators of The Invincibles just wrapped October 18, after filming notably in Malta and Nice, France. The show was co-financed by MTV, Fremantle, Film Estonia and the Malta Film Commission’s filming incentives.

• L/OVER
  Format:6x42’
  Grant: NOK900,000
  Recipient: Gutsy Animations, Finland
  Producers: Marika Makaroff, Kristiina Rytkölä
  Writers: Frog Stone, Kevin Rundle, Sophie Swithinbank
  Concept director: Aleksi Salmenperä
  Commissioner: MTV
  Logline: The series explores how and why coercive control - sometimes mistaken for love, can be the greatest danger in a relationship. A woman meets a man and falls in love with him. At first, it looks like the love story of the century - until one day a crack appears. In this dangerous, twisted love story the denouement brings a dark question – who will get out of this alive?
  
  The first adult-oriented live action series from the creators of the Moominvalley flagship animation series, is due for delivery late 2024.
  

FEATURE FILM

• Gyllene Tider
  Grant: NOK 2,400,000
  Recipient: Nevis Productions
  Producers: Anni Faurbye Fernandez, Moa Westeson, Cindy Hanson,
  Director: Per Simonsson
  Writer: Per Simonsson
  Domestic distribution: Nordisk Film
  Logline: Gyllene Tider is the feelgood, inspiring and extraordinary story of Per Gessle, a teenage misfit, who forms the band Gyllene Tider, that against all odds skyrockets to success and becomes Sweden’s national treasure.
  
  The biopic about the 80s pop group sensation Gyllene Tider just wrapped filming and will be released in Sweden in the summer 2024.

DOCUMENTARY

• Once Upon a Time in the Forest (WT)
  Grant: NOK 500,000
  Recipient: Euphoria Film, Finland
  Producer: Virpi Suutari
  Director: Virpi Suutari
  Domestic distribution: Euphoria Film, Finland
  Logline: Documentary film about young people who are fighting for one of the last coniferous forest areas in Europe. It’s a morality play, a love story of a younger generation whose main location and object of love is the Finnish forest.
  
  The anticipated new documentary from the award-winning Virpi Suutari (Garden Lovers, Aalto) won the Al Jazeera Documentary Award at the last Cannes Film Festival where the project was pitched.

INDUSTRY INITIATIVES SUPPORT

• NOK 225,000 to Filmby Aarhus for the festivals THIS, Aarhus Series and Aarhus Film Days
• NOK 110,000 to Scandinavian Films/the SFI for the Nordic sustainability manager training course.