Oslo 31 August is co-written by Trier and Eskil Vogt and will reunite much of the same creative team as Reprise. It's the story of a young man who comes out of drug rehabilitation and tries to get on with his life. Sæther hopes to finalize the financing of the NOK14m (€1.8m) project before July1st to start shooting during the summer and will be meeting with potential co-producers in Cannes.
Sæther who enjoyed a wide critical and audience success with Stian Kristiansen's The Man Who Loved Yngve, based on Tore Renberg's eponymous novel, has two other projects featuring the versatile character of Jarle Klepp. In Jeg reiser alene (I Travel Alone) directed again by Kristiansen, Jarl (Rolf Kristian Larsen) is a 25-year-old student of literature with a passion for Proust and mature women. One day he is asked to babysit a little girl - his own daughter, whom he knew nothing about. Shooting is scheduled for June 14. In The Orheim Company -"the most personal film and hardest to adapt for the screen," according to Sæther, we go back in time and discover Jarl's childhood. The project to be directed by Arild Andresen will go into production next year.
The producer has another exciting project in early stages of development: Hjelp, the feature debut of novelist/filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud, described by Sæther as "one of Norway's most interesting new voices". On the television side, the much anticipated 4 x 58' series Buzz Aldrin, What has Become of You produced for NRK will finish shooting in July.