Funding to 4 feature films, 3 documentaries, 2 TV series

Production Support

 Feature Films

• Cinderella (Askepott)
  Grant: NOK 2.3 million
  Recipient: Storm Film, Norway
  Producers: Frederick P. N. Howard & Petter J. Borgli
  Director: Cecilie A. Mosli
  Writers: Kamilla Krogsveen, Karsten Fullu
  Domestic distribution: Nordisk Film
  Log-line: With a great deal of courage and skills, and empowered by her three magical hazelnuts, Cinderella is able to break free from her cruel stepmother's tyranny and rescue the prince from his gilded cage. Not all princesses are waiting to be rescued!
  
  “We want to create an arctic blockbuster based on one of mankind's oldest humanistic fairy-tales. A grand story about breaking free from the chains of tyranny, trusting love and believing in all that is good,” said producer Frederick P.N. Howard. Cinderella is the first feature film by Norway’ prominent TV writer Cecilie A. Mosli (Mammon, Grey’s Anatomy, Thin Ice).
  
  The film is co-financed by Film Kollektiv, the Norwegian Film Institute, Nordisk Film, the Lithuanian Tax incentive, the Media Programme, Sola Media.
• The North Sea (Nordsjøen)
  Grant: NOK 3 million
  Recipient: Fante Fiksjon, Norway
  Producers: Martin Sundland, Catrin Gundersen, Therese Bøhn
  Director: John Andreas Andersen
  Writers: Harald Rosenløw Eeg, Lars Gudmestad
  Domestic distribution: Nordisk Film
  World Sales: TrustNordisk
  Log-line: On Christmas Eve 1969, the Norwegian government announces something that will change Norway forever: One of the world's largest offshore oil discoveries is a fact and Ekofisk becomes the start of an unprecedented financial adventure. 50 years of experience has given us many answers, but we might have yet to fully understand the consequences of our operations at sea. Fante Fiksjon’s third disaster movie after The Wave and Quake, will raise the question of the limitations of the oil adventure and its final moment, triggered by humans or natural causes.
• Into the Darkness-The Final Reckoning (De forbandede år 2-opgøret)
  Grant: NOK 2 million
  Recipient: Space Rocket Nation, Denmark
  Producer: Lene Børglum
  Director: Anders Refn
  Writers: Anders Refn, Flemming Quist Møller
  Domestic distribution: Scanbox
  The film is co-financed by TV2 Denmark, Scanbox, the Danish Film Institute, Film Fyn.
  Log-line: In this WW2 drama, Aksel has left his family and as the resistance movement gains force, he gradually becomes a hardcore partisan. As the collaboration politics end, Karl is forced to financially support the resistance movement to avoid sabotage. Filming is set to start in February 2021 in Copenhagen, Fyn and in Sweden. The premiere is set for January 2022.

TV Series

• What About Monica (Hva med Monica)
  Format: 8x28’
  Grant: NOK1.1 million
  Recipient: Nimbus Film, Denmark
  Producer: Live Hide
  Writer: Julie Budtz Sørensen
  Concept director: Nils Holst-Jensen
  Commissioner: NENT Group-Viaplay
  Log-line: Coming-of-age tale told as a crime story. It centres on Louise, a 16-year-old girl trying to find out who raped her best friend Monica. Slowly she is forced to question who and what she believes and who she is herself.
  The series is written by Julie Budtz Sørensen based on her own podcast. Filming is scheduled to start in January 2021 in the Greater Copenhagen area.
• Untitled BR.F crime series
  Format: 4x88’
  Grant: NOK 2.5 million
  Recipient: BR.F, Sweden
  Producers: Patrik Andersson, Ulf Synnerholm
  Writers: TBA
  Concept director: TBA
  Commissioner: C More/TV4 Details to be announced soon.

Documentaries

• Resorts
  Grant: NOK 500,000
  Recipient: Bullitt Film, Denmark
  Producer: Rikke Tambo Andersen
  Director: Mette Carla Toft Albrechtsen
  Domestic distribution: TV2 Denmark
  The film is co-produced by Sweden’s Plattform Production, with co-financing from TV2 Denmark, SVT, Yle, support from the Danish Film Institute, the Swedish Film Institute, The Guardian and Creative Europe.
  Log-line: Resorts is a fascinating documentary built on the dream of the good life in the sun. Framed in a classic charter holiday resort, we meet six tourists who chose never to go back home from their vacation. Instead, they stayed in the sun.
  
  “The film focuses on the human dilemmas of removing yourself from family and friends in the hopes of finding something more meaningful out of pure escapism,” says Rikke Tambo Andersen. “Resorts a project about love for human imperfections and broken relationships. It’s about the need to take a break from life to find your dream destination where you can exist as you are, or to get completely lost in the world and live life on the edge.”

• I See You (Omsorg på recept)
  Grant: NOK 600,000
  Recipient: Hansen & Pedersen, Denmark
  Producer: Malene Flindt Pedersen
  Director: Louise Detlefsen
  Domestic distribution: TV2 Denmark
  The film is co-produced by Germany’s Neue-Celluloid Fabrik, with co-financing from the Danish Film Institute, Weltkino, VGTV, TV2 Denmark, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, RÚV, Eurimages, First Hand Films.
  Log-line: After Fat Front, Detlefsen focuses on a controversial new treatment of people with dementia. At the small retirement home Dagmarsminde, we follow the founding nurse May Eiby who has chosen to replace all medicine with care. Through human contact, the staff creates a joyful life, and the atmosphere resembles an ordinary home: retro furniture, dog and cat, fresh flowers and the residents take naps side by side in the common living room. The film will premiere mid-March 2021.

• How to Kill a Cloud (Pilvet)
  Grant: NOK 500,000
  Recipient: Wacky Tie Films, Finland
  Producers: Niina Virtanen, Pasi Hakkio
  Director: Tuija Halttunen
  Domestic distribution: Yle
  World sales: Rise & Shine World Sales
  The film is co-produced by Denmark’s Copenhagen Film Company, with co-financing from the Finnish Film Foundation, Yle, AVEK, Kone Foundation, The Church Media Foundation, Film Tampere, DR, the Danish Film Institute and VGTV in Norway.
  Log-line: Scientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a $1.5 million research grant by the United Arab Emirates, to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good, sounds amazing. But Hannele soon realises that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain, is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?

Distribution Support

• NOK 115,000 to Another World Entertainment, Denmark for the release of the Swedish thriller The Other Side.

Dubbing support

• NOK 100,000 to Mer Film, Norway, for the dubbing in Norwegian of the Finnish family film Sihja.
• NOK 100,000 to Mer Film, Norway for the dubbing in Norwegian of the Swedish animated film The Ape Star.
  
  

Cultural Initiatives support

• NOK 90,000 to Brancheklubben for Film og Mediekomponister for Nordic Film Music Days.