Tall and Small’s co-founders - screenwriter Jannik Tai Mosholt (Borgen, Rita, The Great Bear) and producer Christian Potalivo (Dicte, Long Story Short) are keeping 33% each of their Copenhagen-based company, set up in 2020.

Potalivo and Tai Mosholt who first met on the benches of the National Film School of Denmark, have both top credentials (see our story: CLICK HERE), and show-run (together with co-creator Esben Toft Jacobsen) Netflix’s first Danish Original series The Rain, produced by Miso Film. Their first Tall & Small production was the Netflix teen series Chosen.

For Hald, entering Tall & Small was a natural step to complement her company’s savoir-faire. “At Nimbus Film, we wish to expand our strong position in film production with an equivalent strong position in tv-series,” she stated.

Speaking to www.nordicfilmandtvews,com about their alliance with Nimbus Film, Potalivo said: “First and foremost, we were pondering on how our company should shape up in the future, notably with regard to storytelling and top filmmaking craftsmanship, and started discussing this with Nimbus Film. We soon realised that we share common values and goals although we come from very different places,” the producer said, adding:

“Nimbus Film is one of Denmark’s most established and respected companies and we’ve always looked up to Birgitte and Bo as role models. In fact, when we went to film school, the company that everybody wanted to join was Nimbus Film!”

The deal with Nimbus Film - minority owned by the French media group Newen Studios - also gives Tall and Small the financial muscle to expand their activities - especially in the aftermath of last year’s ‘streaming crisis’ in Denmark, still impacting the Danish audiovisual industry.

Potalivo said Tall and Small is currently working on two TV shows, including one scripted by Tai Mosholt, a children’s animation programme for DR and a feature film project.

Established in 1993 and credited for landmark productions such as The Celebration, Flame & Citron and the series The Bridge, Nimbus Film had a busy 2022 with the premiere on Viaplay of the youth drama series Where Were You and three theatrical releases: Henrik Ruben Genz’s A Lucky Man, last year’s biggest Danish hit with more than 479,000 admissions, Annette K. Olesen’s A Matter of Trust and Fredrik Nørgaard’s family film My Robot Brother.

The company’s projects in development includes two drama series and a feature film by Christina Rosendahl (The Good Traitor).