Seven features, three TV series, one documentary receive funding

Production Support

TV SERIES

• Riding in Darkness (Nattryttarna)
  Format: 8x45’
  Grant: NOK 2.2 million
  Recipient: Jarowskij, Sweden
  Producer: Emma Nyberg
  Main writer: Ulf Kvensler
  Concept director: Molly Hartleb
  Key cast: Hanna Ardéhn, Jonas Karlsson
  TV Commissioner: C More-TV4
  World sales: Wild Bunch
  Logline: True crime series based in real events, set in a rarely depicted arena: the equestrian world.
  
  Sweden, 1996. Tommy Lund, a passionate horse trainer, looks after the finest riders in the country. Charming and charismatic, this husband and father of two seems above all suspicion. He is also a psychopath, rapist and pedophile. Four women – Molly, Tommy’s wife Lotta and their daughters Victoria and Agnes – will fight, each in her own way, to defeat the monster and survive.
  
  The series currently filming, is co-produced by ZDF and Film i Väst. The premiere is set for the fall 2022.

• I am Earth (Verden er min)
  Format: 6x22’
  Grant: NOK 700,000
  Recipient: Monday Scripted
  Producer: Terez Hollo-Klausen
  Main writer: Amy Black Ndiaye
  Concept director: Øyvind Holtmon
  TV Commissioner: NRK
  Logline: The series follows Odile as she turns 30. Her friends seem to have proper jobs, relations and kids on the way, while she hangs out with her best friend Stian at his studio, making rap music she never releases. It’s about time for Odile to tell her dad who wants her to find a man, that she is lesbian.
  
  The series received support from the Norwegian Film Institute. The premiere on NRK is set for February/March 2022.

• Property of Bullshit
  Grant: NOK 2.5 million
  Recipient: Creative Alliance, Denmark
  TV Commissioner: Viaplay
  Details to be announced at a later date.

Feature films

• Birthday Girl
  Grant: NOK 2 million
  Recipient: Nordisk Film, Denmark
  Details to be announced at a later date.
  
  Pretty Young Thing (Smuk)
  Grant: NOK 1 million
  Recipient: SF Studios, Denmark
  Producer: Marcella Dichmann
  Director: Tilde Harkamp
  Writer: Line Mørkeby
  Key cast: Andrea Gadeberg, Albert Rudbeck, Sylvester Byder, Karoline Hamm
  Domestic distribution: SF Studios
  World sales: REInvent International Sales
  Logline: The film is set at Rosenholm gymnasium, at the start of the school year. There are a lot of initiation rituals that the new first-year students have to go through, which are of great importance for their future life in high school, and not the least for their personal life. We follow six young boys and girls who are quickly challenged to their own limits and in their own way.
  
  The film received support from the Danish Film Institute and DR. SF Studios will handle the domestic release scheduled for 2022.
• Rosa and the Stone Troll (Roselil og stentrolden)
  Grant: NOK 1.4 million
  Recipient: Dansk Tegnefilm, Denmark
  Producer: Marie Bro
  Director: Karla Holmbäck
  Writer: Toke Westmark Steensen, based on an original story by Josefine Ottesen
  Domestic distribution: Scandinavian Film Distribution
  Logline: The animated film for 4-8 years-old and their parents, is based on Josefine Ottesen’s children’s book Roselil og hendes venner (Rosa and her friends), published in 1994. The film depicts the good and bad sides of friendship and how finding friends requires courage.
  
  The film received support from the Danish Film Institute, the West Danish Film Fund, DR Ramansjang, and a pre-buy from French distributor Gebeka. The anticipated premiere is set for February 2023.
• Operation Napoleon (Napóleonsskjölin)
  Grant: NOK 2.5 million
  Recipient: Sagafilm, Iceland
  Producers: Tinna Proppé, Hilmar Sigurðsson, Kjartan Þór Þórðarson
  Director: Óskar Þór Axelsson
  Writer: Marteinn Þórisson
  Domestic distribution: Samfilm
  Logline: The film is based on a novel by best-selling crime novelist Arnaldur Indriðason.
  
  When a young Icelandic lawyer finds herself accused of a murder she didn’t commit, she is sucked into the vortex of an international conspiracy. Her only chance of survival lies in uncovering the secret of an old German World War II airplane, recently discovered on Iceland’s largest glacier.
  
  The film co-produced by Germany’s Splendid Films received support from the Icelandic Film Centre.
• Let the River Flow (La elva leve)
  Grant: NOK 2.2 million
  Recipient: Mer Film, Norway
  Producer: Maria Ekerhovd
  Director: Ole Giæver
  Writer: Ole Giæver
  Key cast: Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen
  Domestic distribution: Mer Film
  Logline: When the Norwegian government decides to displace the Alta River in the late 1970s, a Sámi movement begins. Ester, originally ashamed of her roots, has to embrace her heritage to help fight for the rights of her people.
  
  The film co-produced by Bufo, Finland and Zentropa, Sweden, received support from the Norwegian Film Institute, the Swedish Film Institute, the Finnish Film Foundation, Yle, NRK, SVT, Filmpool Nord, Filmfond Nord, the Sami Film Instiute and Sami Parliament.
  
  Filming in on-going and will last until February 2022. The domestic release is set for early 2023.
• Fathers and Mothers (Fædre og mødre)
  Grant: NOK 1.6 million
  Recipient: Nordisk Film Production, Denmark
  Producer: Tomas Radoor
  Director: Paprika Steen
  Writer: Jakob Weis
  Key cast: Katrine Greis-Rosenthal, Jacob Lohmann, Amanda Collin, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Lars Brygmann, Rasmus Bjerg, Lise Baastrup, Carsten Bjørnlund.
  Domestic distribution: Nordisk Film
  Logline: Piv and Ulrik’s daughter has enrolled in a new school. That means new teachers, new classmates but most of all new parents. Patience, love and parenthood is tested, as Piv and Ulrik try to become part of the rigid parents’ group.
  
  The film received support from the Danish Film Institute and YouSee. Nordisk Film Distribution will handle the domestic release, planned for October 6, 2022.
• UFO Sweden
  Grant: NOK 1.5 million
  Recipient: Crazy Pictures, Sweden
  Writers/directors/producers: Crazy Pictures
  Key cast: Inez Dahl Torhaug, Eva Melander, Jesper Barkselius, Sara Shirpey
  Domestic distribution: SF Studios
  World Sales: REinvent International Sales
  Logline: A teenage rebel, placed in foster care, suspects that her father is not dead, but has been kidnapped by UFOs. With the help from a UFO association, she is determined to find out the truth.
  
  The film is co-produced by SF Studios, Film i Väst and SVT, with support from the Norrköping Film Fund and the Swedish Film Institute. The anticipated Swedish premiere is lined-up for Christmas 2022.

Documentaries

• Behind the Swedish model (Bakom Svenska modellen)
  Grant: NOK 400,000
  Recipient: Freetownfilms, Sweden
  Producers: Dylan Williams, Viktor Nordenskiöld
  Director: Viktor Nordenskiöld
  Domestic Distribution: SVT
  Logline: The film follows Sweden’s suddenly world famous State Epidemiologist Anders Tegnell and Health Minister Lena Hallengren during their controversial no-lockdown-fight against Covid-19, examining how to stand firm against criticism and hate, and how to deal with worship, doubt and disappointments. Still not knowing the final verdict, the Health Minister turns into a patient.
  
  The film received backing from the Swedish Film Institute, SVT, NRK, DR2. The premiere is set for 2022.

Distribution and Dubbing Support

• NOK 290,000 in slate distribution to Norway’s Europafilm for the release of the films Diva of Finland (Finland), Psychosia(Denmark) and Alma (Iceland).
• NOK 210,000 in slate distribution to Bíó Paradis (Heimili Kvikmyndanna) for the release in Iceland of the Norwegian filmThe Worst Person in the World, Swedish documentary The Most Beautiful Boy in the World and Finnish film Tove.
• NOK 100,000 to TriArt, Sweden for the release of the Norwegian film Ninjababy.
• NOK 90,000 to Bíó Paradis (Heimili Kvikmyndanna) for the dubbing into Icelandic of the Swedish family film Nelly Rapp, Monster Agent.
• NOK 90,000 to Bíó Paradis (Heimili Kvikmyndanna) for the dubbing into Icelandic of the Norwegian family film Karsten and Petra at the Theatre.