Set up in 2018, the SFI Wild Card is a fast track initiative to help new Swedish voices get their first feature film or hybrid film off the ground straight after graduating from film school.  “It’s hard enough getting into the film industry straight after school at the best of times. Add a global pandemic and you may even lose your confidence,” says Helen Ahlsson, the SFI-Moving Sweden Film Commissioner who supervises the scheme. 

“Right now, it is especially important that Wild Card continues. We all know we have to carry on social-distancing for a while, but we’re staying close to the film schools and providing a mega-boost for students who, we hope, are bursting with good stories,” she adds. 

Previous recipients of the Wild Card support include Fanny Ovesen, winner of the 2018 Nordic Talents Pitch Prize, who is currently working on her feature debut Laura for B-Reel Films. 

The Wild Card Call for Projects opens June 1st and closes September 21st, 2020.

The selected projects will be announced during the Stockholm Film Festival Industry Days (November 17–19 November, 2020).

For details, contact:
Helen Ahlsson, helen.ahlsson@filminstitutet.se 
Film Commissioner Moving Sweden 
or
Lina Norberg Johansson, lina.norberg@filminstitutet.se
Head of Talent